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Friends! Lots and lots and lots of things to report to you!

First Thing: New Zipfox

Zipfox for FireFox 3 was just released, so if you upgraded to the sparkling new FF3 today, you can grab a copy here.

Second Thing: Major Japan Growth

We’re starting to pickup major growth in Japan as projected!

More Zooomr Japan Growth by Kristopher on Zooomr

Third Thing: Lots of Love

Every day, I feel lucky to have such great conversations with everyone on Zooomr. I am often surprised and moved by the generosity of our users and so it goes without saying that I am very appreciative. Thank-you for making Zooomr into one of the best places on the Internet.

Also, I’ve been mentioned lately in a few major publications in Japan and wanted to share some of that with you.

Kristopher in Nikkei Electronics! (08.06.16) by Kristopher on Zooomr

With that, I’ll try to blog more daily and post more videos about what we’re doing. Things are starting to stabilize, which means that I can spend more time again in constant communication!

With love,

kristopher

Friends, thank-you for your support and warm birthday wishes. Your letters and kindness really made my day. I’ve made a video response embedded below — when you have a moment, please watch it.

Much thanks and love,

kristopher

Friends, we’ve worked hard to get Zooomr 2008 up an running — now, let’s go take a small break and celebrate with a photowalk in Yokohama, Japan!

One of our local community orginizers, Chidorian-san, has put together a really awesome course for us to walk. Please take a look at the below map for a better idea of the walk:

大きな地図で見る

Japanese user Toshisyung-san also took the time to create a flier about the event:

We’re really excited about our monthly photowalks! Lots of opportunity to connect up with the community.

I hope you’ll be able to join us.

kristopher

Back when I was just getting things setup here in Japan, I ran into an awesome person by the name of Ms. Fumi Yamazaki who kindly decided to take a moment and interview me on our direction here.

Today, I was going through my news feeds and saw that she had posted the video we took in late October 2007.

Inside the video, we discuss my passion for helping people communicate, as well as touching on some of reasons why I feel Zooomr will do relatively well in Japan and around the world.

I’ve embeded it below, so please enjoy.

kristopher

Friends, Only three more hours to go! How are you holding up?? Are you excited? We are!

I’m hanging out with Kunix — we’re doing the last checks now; when we have about 30-60 minutes to go before launch, we’ll go live on Zooomr TV and start a countdown!

With love,

kristopher

Friends, we’re coming up on a mere 11 hours to go! I wanted to show you another video on one of Zooomr 2008’s new features that let’s you create GeoZips instead of regular Zips on Zipline. The Video is below.

kristopher

Good Morning from Tokyo, Japan! I’ve been working straight over the weekend and our team should be here any moment.

We’ve only got about 19 more hours to go as we launch Zooomr 2008 on 3.3.08 Pacific.

Please know that from this point forward, we might bring down the site at any moment to upgrade Zooomr.

With love and regards,

kristopher

Click for Zooomr 2008 Countdown

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

Hey friends, tomorrow from about 10a we’re going to meet-up at Sendagi Station (Tokyo Metro) and start photowalking in Japan!

If you’d like to come along, please join this discussion on Zipline or send an email to kris.tate@gmail.com

Zooomr user Chidorian also put together an awesome Google Map that everyone can use to follow the adventure!

I’ve also gone ahead and put up a wiki page on our new Zooomr Knowledge Center so that you can track future Japan Photowalking events as they happen!

日本皆様、こんにちは！クリストファーです。明日の午前１０時から、是非にPhotowalkしよう！:)

Photowalking Schedule:

集合場所
10am　地下鉄千駄木駅集合

不忍池
12pm 不忍池で集合して昼食へ

秋葉原駅
3pm 秋葉原駅で解散

僕たちと会うのを思ってたら、ピトークまで連絡してくださいー。:)