Hi friends, there has been a bit of bumpiness on Zooomr recently. This is mostly due to a failure on our part to communicate that we were actually upgrading most of our core infrastructure — but now that is officially over, let’s start to enjoy life on Zooomr again!
This also means that we can get back to building new features and improving the software side of the service.
See you on Zooomr and Zipline! 
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
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
Hi Friends, we’re excited to be launching our 2008 Release here shortly! After working on several bugs and our well awaited mobile version, we’re excited to be delivering this special installment of Zooomr to everyone.
There will be some upload outages as marked above as we are moving some data to our Japanese Data Centers, but we plan to have both Web and Static photos online for your viewing pleasure.
Our team and myself have been working hard here for the last 5 months in Japan for everyone’s benefit. I’m glad that we’ve been able to save Zooomr from a money crisis that could have killed Zooomr for good — but, instead, we have found investments and are moving full speed ahead for you guys — our users.
We’ve also launched the Zooomr Knowledge Center where you can find more information about our upcoming release, as well as submit bugs. We’re trying our best to keep everyone in the loop.
Please be safe — we’re only 9 days into the year and moving strong!
kristopher
Hey friends — we’re going to be down for a bit while I upgrade some of our backend — hold tight, this shouldn’t take too long — maybe an hour or so at most.
With love,
kristopher
Hey Friends, if there’s one thing that’s been proven over the last 72 hours — it’s been how awesome you guys are!
Thomas and I are proud to be connected to such an awesome group of people. We’re pretty tired over here, but the message is clear: NEVER QUIT — STAY STRONG.
One of our users made this awesome UStream mash-up so you can watch both Thomas and myself LIVE: Check it out here
Moving forward,
Hey Friends, I’m closing in on this release!!! I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be live at SFWIN tomorrow! (Yes, we’ll be launched by then )
Time: 6p
Location: 405 Howard Street, SF - the Orrick Building
Price: $10 with RSVP; $20 without. RSVP Link
Working hard for you guys — really pushing for this!
With love,
Hey Friends, It’s been a productive and satisfying last 24 hours. Many of you have been sticking with us in the UStream.TV Chat that we’re running — thanks for all of your impressive display of support!
So, the biggest thing that we’re doing here is working through all of the database translation from one system to the next, not to mention bringing-up satellite systems in remote regions all around the world. The latest issue had to do with some smartsets that weren’t processing correctly.
We will continue to update this post periodically, but please make sure to check-in with our Live 24×7 chat, courtesy of UStream.TV. (Regional coverage is also provided by our community blogs, shown in the header of this blog)
With much love and respect,