Official Zooomr Blog

Although not directly Zooomr related, we wanted to post this morning on Zoho’s announcement on their new Zoho Start service. Zoho is an innovative online document software suite and this morning they are announcing a new way to access their suite through Zoho Start. Both Kristopher and I use Zoho personally, as well as for our documents for Zooomr. With their new Start service Zoho now integrates Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show and has a great new interface for organizing your documents in folders.

What does Zoho have to do with Zooomr? Well, Zoho has graciously been allowing us to use their data center space for the past few months while we have continued to build Zooomr out. When one of our servers went down a while back we went offline and were seriously worried about getting our system back up. Zoho stepped in and saved the day and so the fact that we can all use Zooomr today is directly due to their generosity and community support. Zoho continues to support and help Zooomr while we develop our own longer-term strategy and for this we are tremendously grateful.

What can the Zooomr Community do to support Zoho? Well, if you use online documents at all check them out. I think you will like what you find and see for your online document use. They also have lots of other cool online apps including chat apps, wikis, polling software for your blog and lots of other interesting free online apps.

Well I’m pleased to announce that Kristopher has been working hard on the continued development of Zooomr and we added two new enhancements to Zooomr this morning.

The first enhancement that we’ve added is Zipline Complete. Zooomr’s Zipline feature is one of the most popular features on the site that allows users to keep in touch with each other through regular status updates as well as photos. With Zipline complete you can now page Zipline indefinitely. You can go back in time for both your own zipline as well as the zipline that you are following of your contacts, friends and family. To get an example of this paging you can check out my zipline or Kristopher’s zipline. This new enhancement for Zooomr is being implemented only for Pro accounts. We appreciate the Pro users so far that have helped financially support the Zooomr Community. Pro accounts are only $19.95 per year which is less than $1.50 per month.

We’ve also added the ability for you to subscribe Zipline RSS for different Zooomr users. You will notice that at the bottom of very user’s zipline is an RSS button where you can get an RSS feed for that user’s Zipline to monitor their status updates and photos more closely.

Kristopher also added a bio page for the Zooomr team which is growing!

We are continuing to work hard to build the best Zooomr that we can and we appreciate all the support from everyone who has contributed to the site.

Photos clockwise starting in upper left by extrasupercutie, Randyman, poagao and Matt Roe.

Every day I love seeing so much of the brilliant photography that you all come up with!

Photos clockwise from upper left by: seibuone, nickrigby, gooshum and willwm.

Well Kristopher has been working like a maniac the past 24 hours and has rolled out a brand new version of Zipline for Zooomr. Zipline is Zooomr’s feature that allows you to follow the photos and activity of your friends and contacts on Zooomr.

With the new version of Zipline you will now be able to see who is a fan of yours vs. a mutual contact. Fans are people who have added you as a friend or contact and are following you on zipline but people that you have not added back as a contact or friend. Mutual contacts are people who you list as friends and contacts and also list you back. If you haven’t already, check out who some of your fans are. I realized that a lot of people that somehow I’d missed making contacts at Zooomr are in there. I’m going to be adding a lot of new contacts in the next 24 hours.

Also there is now a public zipline available. This is a zipline where you can see everyone’s zipline across the entire site. With this feature we’ve also added a new privacy feature where if you so choose you can make ziplines private so that still only your friends, contacts, or friends/contacts will see them. These zipline messages will not appear in the general public zipline.

We’ve also added a new feature where if you upload a single photo, it will include the description to that photo in a zipline.

Kristopher will be following up in the near future with a video update on these new features. In the meantime check out our ziplines to get a sense of what is included in the new version of Zipline. Kristopher’s is here, and mine is here.

There is a post here in Zooomr Groups if you’d like to discuss today’s Zipline enhancements.