Official Zooomr Blog : 2007 : June

Archives for June 2007

YouTube and Vimeo Infowidgets

18 June 2007 | General | 28 Comments

One of the things that we are excited about here at Zooomr is the future for what we are calling infowidgets. Infowidgets are a new type of metadata where you can associate virtually anything with a photograph. Some of this data is fairly simple and straightforward labels (i.e. tags), geotags, etc. Other […]

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Hey, We Won a CNET Webware Award, Cool!

18 June 2007 | General | 28 Comments

Well thanks much to all of you who voted for Zooomr in CNET’s Webware Awards. We won an award!
From CNET: “The “Webware 100” Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware […]

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Photowalking This Friday in San Francisco

18 June 2007 | General | No Comments

Photo by Scott Burns.
Kristopher Tate and I are going to hang out on this coming Friday night and shoot the Haight. If you live in the Bay Area or are visiting the Bay Area come on out and join us. Bring your camera, your tripod and any other cool gadget gear you’ve got […]

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Happy Father’s Day

17 June 2007 | General | 11 Comments

Photos from top l to r by ropeboy, fipsut, alexisjoy, Andrew Hedges, Kreg, Chris Nixon, Trevor Carpenter, reveiled, and Doogie Boogie.
Thomas Hawk is a photographer and a blogger and a CEO and an advisor and a lot of other things. But the thing I like being best is a father to Jackson, […]

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Randyman! You are the BEST!

13 June 2007 | General | 23 Comments

UPDATE: Randyman has his stickers online and available for ordering. He’s offering them for free, you just pay for the shipping. You can read more at his site and order over here. Looking forward to the interesting photos that people come up with with these Zooomr stickers. Your generosity is […]

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Zooomr’s Stand on Censorship

13 June 2007 | Announcements | 43 Comments

A lot of controversy has been flying lately with regards to censorship on the internet. Earlier today, the BBC, Slashdot, etc. reported on a shareholder resolution that was rejected by Yahoo management. The shareholder resolution was very well written and articulate and documented where an internet company ought to stand with regards to […]

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Willkommen! Welcome to Our German Friends

13 June 2007 | General | 16 Comments

Photo by Stockwerk23.
Well we had quite a surprise when we got up this morning, for some reason today is the largest sign up day in the history of Zooomr for photographers coming from Germany!
We are pleased that so many of you have chosen to join Zooomr today and want to welcome you personally to the […]

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Just Launched New Languages: 9 in Total!

12 June 2007 | Announcements, Development, General, Video Blog | 43 Comments

Hey Friends, a lot of hard work has gone into our localizations from people from all around the world. Today, we’ve launched even more languages in the hopes that more people will help us unite the world.
If you happen to speak English and another language really well, be sure to checkout the Zooomr Localization Google […]

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Great Balls of Fire, Zooomr’s Discover Just Got a Heck of a Lot Hottter

11 June 2007 | Announcements | 19 Comments

Goodness gracious, great balls and all that. Kristopher just shot me over a link to the latest enhancement on Zooomr and this is definitely one of the best ones yet and represents the best way that I’ve ever seen to find great photography on the internet on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly […]

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