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Hey friends! Following-up from earlier, I wanted to give you a video tour of all the new goodies! (Video embedded below)

kristopher

Hey friends! We just release another update to Zooomr earlier this morning — here’s a run-down on what’s new:

New Header & Navigation: Get to where you want to go

New Zooomr Header & Navigation by Kristopher on Zooomr

The first thing you’ll spot when you visit Zooomr is that the header bar has been completely redone. Sub-Menus allow easy access to all of the endless goodies Zooomr has to offer. The new header bar is completely themeable and dynamic. Lots of people are loving it.

Discover Beyond with Paging for Zooomr Discover

Zooomr Discover is where you can find all of the most awesome photos from the Zooomr Universe — but now it gets even better with the ability to go beyond the first page. You can view page two here.

Zooomr Undiscovered: Find something you haven’t Discovered before

Introducing Zooomr Undiscovered — A new feature-section on Zooomr that displays over one-hundred of the most awesome shots from people that you haven’t interacted with yet on Zooomr. With a universe of photos available on Zooomr, Undiscovered helps you locate awesome photographs that you probably haven’t seen on your Zipline.

Zooomr Awards: Show that You’re the Best!

We like to show our users how awesome they really are. One of the newest ideas that we came up with was Zooomr Awards — as photos become more and more popular, they receive awards for being the most viewed or reaching the most favorites. If a photo has awards, they are displayed on the right-hand side of the photo.

Wrap-up

I want to thank all of our users for all of the time and energy they spend on Zooomr. As we grow and grow, I’m always amazed at all of the awesome photographs that get shown in Discover.

Our team and I continue to work very hard for everyone; It is your kind words and photographs that keep us going strong every day: Thank-you for your support.

Please enjoy our hard work and I hope to see you on Zipline!

with love,

kristopher

p.s. There’s a new theme on the design settings page called ’sand’. Check it out here.

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

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!

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

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