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Updates, Updates, Updates!

by Kristopher Tate | 5 February 2008 | Adventures, Announcements, Development, General, System Notices | 4 Comments

Hi Friends! Sorry for the lack of updates on the Zooomr Blog! After recently opening up the Knowledge Center, we’ve been keeping it chock-full of cool and useful information for our community. I highly recommend that you check it out! :)

Now then, some updates.

First, we’ve moved to a new Data Center in Japan! Our Japanese Data Centers are much faster than the old and as a result, you will find that uploads and general browsing will be faster. Big plus.

Second, we’re still waiting on some of our older equipment to be shipped. Unfortunately, we had a 25-day deadline (we only knew 26-days in advance! :( ) to move-out of our old data center in the US, and without me there to supervise, Thomas Hawk and two very cool Zooomr Users had to handle the operations. This was a big shock to us, but we managed to get a data center in Tokyo together!

Further, what this also meant was that we had 25-days to move 20TB of Photos! Unless you’re VC backed, this task is pretty impossible. With our small financial resources at the moment, we were only able to grab half of the data out of the data center. The other half is again on its way to Japan and will be activated within this month. We regret the situation this has posed to our users and ask for forgiveness. Users may track our progress in the Knowledge Center. Again, donating or going pro really helps us out, as well!

Third, Zooomr 2008 is well underway and once we get all of our hardware into Tokyo, Japan and things start to stabilize, we will push the new code out to the servers and show you what we’ve been working on for the last 6 months. It’s really exciting stuff and we’ll hope you’ll join us in its launch. :)

Lots of great things are planned inside of 2008 and we want to communicate that our focus for this year is to make Zooomr faster and more stable along with making improvements to core features we have today. We feel that our features are very strong, and if made more stable could do very well.

I also want to take a brief moment and thank all of the hard core users who IM and communicate with me and our crew here in Japan everyday! You guys are awesome and it shows 100 times over. Thank-you!

Let’s stay strong for 08! :)

kristopher

4 Comments

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