Recently I have had more than a few conversations with Kris over at Zooomr and even met the famous although slightly secretive Thomas Hawk. Great guys truely. I love their product, I like where they are going, and mostly I wish them great great success. I have said to Kris and I will say it here, ‘Kris, you are very talented, you will be very successful’.
So why this post well because I wanted to talk about them and draw some attention to some recent developments over there, you may be particularly curious if you are a Flickr user since most of Flickr’s recent features the ‘gamma’ upgrade were literally ‘borrowed’ off Zooomr, such as the use of Geo-tagging, and tagging features just generally to name a couple.
Also Zooomr is preparing a new release and major upgrade dubbed Mark III. This release has been talked about and talked about for months but for reasons I don’t think its appropriate for me to get into there have been delays. The delays from what I can see have nothing to do with Kris or Thomas whom if you read the Zooomr blog are knee deep in the trenchs literally working day and nite to make things happen.
I don’t know about you, but there is something appealing when a company is willing to do just about anything for its customers. Some will point to me and say but ‘Roger, their website is down, how good can they be’ well I say clearly, their service is not mission critical so being down to do a major upgrade that benefits me and my other Zooomr colleagues I am fine with. It was discussed, they have published on their blog often, and they have been absolutely the best example of ‘crisis management’ while they work through their issues.
I hope hearing about their recent ‘difficulties’ don’t put you off because their product is really great, their features are very advanced in the market and their new release ‘Mark III’ will advance those features further and even allow professional and hard-core hobbyists to benefit.
Below is an embedded live feed courtesy of Ustream.tv where they continue to interact with their audience while they pursue a final solution and success. Enjoy the show.
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