Zooomr is off line right now while we make the transition from Zooomr V2 to Zooomr Mark III. We think it’s probably 12-24 hours until launch. Thanks for all your support! If you want to watch the launch live, you can do it here at UStream.
We’ve also set up a Pay Pal donate thing if people want to donate to help Zooomr.
Thanks all and see you in Mark III.
Morning everyone! It’s currently 01:13 PDT — Just got an automated alert that zooomr is down… working to recover services!
Update (3:39a): We had a few hard drives on our database RAID crash — we’re restoring from the latest snapshot now…
Update (4:39a): All Systems GO! We’re back online folks — sorry for the outage!
-kristopher
Hey Friends, I’m back from Japan and on my way back to San Francisco! Many of you have wondered why the Zooomr Mark III Release has been delayed and it simply has to do with a 3rd Party Storage Provider being too slow for our liking and ultimately its sluggish response times. The extra time has been spent scaling our in-house infrastructure and recoding ZM3 to use our in-house storage engine, the “ZMD”.
Anyhoo, I’m on my way back to San Francisco right now and will continue to update you as it comes. Please remember that we have introduced UNLIMITED Upload, Archival and storage for your photos — forever! We believe in you guys.
With continued love and respect,
Hey Friends! I know that for some of you, not seeing Mark III yet has been pretty unbearable — trust me, it’s been hard not to see it launch quite yet.
So, as I work on the issues postponing our release, I want to take some of the time to show you sneak peaks into what I’ve been working on for the last six months: first stop, enhanced lightbox!
Lightbox functionality has been one of our strongest features as it allows you to view a larger version of a photograph from the thumbnail view. Our enhanced lightbox now allows you to finally view your photos as a slide show — check-out the video above to see it in action!
Thanks to all who send their love and support — it’s been a hard last few days and your support has been most of what I’ve been working off of. Thank-you.
I’m going to get back to it.
With continued love and respect,
Hey Friends! I’m still trekking through the Mark III release cycle over here with Resident British Guy Ben Metcalfe.
To keep everyone happy and continually uploading images, we’ve opted to put Zooomr Release Two back up temporarily for a few days while we get all of these Mark III bugs worked out of our system.
But, if that weren’t enough, I’m going to drop ALL LIMITS on uploading, storing and archiving the world’s photos. We believe in you guys!
So, with all of that said, expect to see Release Two back up by 9pm PDT.
With continued Love and Respect,
Hey Friends! Still working on it — I finally took your advice and had a nice 8-9 hour nap. Thank-you, I feel refreshed and back in action!
Now then, check-out this podcast mentioning Zooomr Mark III (We’re mentioned at about the one minute mark): Link to Podcast. Thanks Information Salad!
Back to work for me!
With love,
Hey Friends! I’ve been up almost the entire 48 hours making sure that everyone’s photos and metadata make it over to Mark III safely. Stage Two is complete, but we’re having some slowdowns on the final approach.
Zooomr Mark III Boasts an impressive new search system along side our marketplace — one of the coolest features of marketplace is that we can now search by the overall color of each photograph. This requires intense processing of each photograph, and while we have 5 superfast quad-xeon servers processing multiple batches of photos, it is taking a bit longer than expected.
We’re committed to getting Mark III out as soon as possible, so again, please hold tight.
With Continued Love,
Hey Friends, stage one is complete and I’m now working on putting some final things together. Hang in there, because tomorrow will be quite the day!
With Love,
Hi Friends! Today’s the day, we’re going to be launching Zooomr Mark III over the course of 48 Hours from 8am PDT March 13th, 2007 on through March 15th, 2007. Blogged photos will still be available the entire time.
Some brief highlights on Zooomr Mark III:
And if you think that’s great, just wait until we show you what Zipline is!
For both Thomas Hawk and myself, thank-you for making Zooomr what it is today — we’re here to serve you, our community, and look forward to improving how Photo Sharing helps the world communicate.
With Love,
Hey folks, I’m going to be bringing the site down for approximately an hour to perform some limited maintenance.
-Kristopher
UPDATE (10:12 PT): All Services Nominal and Maintained (Wow, that was faster than expected!)