Enemy of Entropy

What Happened to Zooomr?

15 March 2008, 11:10 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Geekery.

Does any­body know what hap­pened to Zooomr? They started out as a promis­ing com­peti­tor to Flickr, and I recall hear­ing good things about their API. Katie, Sam, and I joined back in 2006 when they were giv­ing away free, life­time Pro accounts.

I had linked to a photo on their servers in an old blog post, and noticed today that the link was bro­ken. I logged in and found that my account is un-​​Pro now, though Katie’s and Sam’s seem to have retained their Pro sta­tus. All of my pho­tos and my pro­file info are gone. Katie’s pro­file is blank. She seems to have one photo there, but I can’t open it. Sam has a few pho­tos, but again, I can’t open them.

I emailed tech sup­port, but I was think­ing maybe some­one else had heard some­thing about the com­pany that might be help­ful. I did notice that they seem to be asso­ci­ated with Zoho, and when you email tech sup­port a copy goes to a “feed­back” address at a .jp (Japan­ese) domain. Their “help” info resides on a Zoho wiki, which was down when I tried to access it. (I can’t get to any­thing at Zoho, in fact — glad I don’t rely on them!)

Crunch­base seems to con­sider Zooomr a going con­cern.

4 Comments »

  1. avatar Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill. 16 March 2008, 6:44 am

    Pretty sure they’re still active. They aren’t asso­ci­ated with Zoho, though — Zoho has a wiki com­po­nent that any­body can use.

    You might want to try the Zooomr forums, instead.

  2. avatar Aravind. 16 March 2008, 10:36 am

    Cyn­thia : Apolo­gies from Zoho.

    When Zooomr Mark III was about be released, Zooomr had some issues and Zoho & Sun sup­ported them by donat­ing servers.

    Zooomr’s help doc­u­men­ta­tion is hosted on Zoho Wiki. Zoho Wiki is cur­rently under­go­ing a sys­tem upgrade and hence all the wikis hosted on Zoho Wiki aren’t acces­si­ble. Zoho Wiki will up soon (in an hour max). All the rest of the Zoho ser­vices are work­ing fine now.

    Do tell us which Zoho ser­vice you aren’t able to access, the browser name/​version that you are using & error mes­sages dis­played if any. We’ll make sure you get to access Zoho.

  3. avatar Kristopher Tate. 17 March 2008, 10:47 am

    Hi there, thanks for blog­ging about Zooomr!

    It’s been awhile since 2006 and we’ve done a num­ber of things to improve our ser­vice. You can email me per­son­ally if you would like help regard­ing your accounts (kris.tate@gmail.com).

    As for the Japan­ese domain name, we’re grow­ing here in Japan, as well. We have a good fol­low­ing here.

    http://​jp​.blog​na​tion​.com/​2​0​0​7​/​1​2​/​0​9​/​z​o​o​o​m​r​-​c​o​n​q​u​e​r​i​n​g​-​t​h​e​-​w​o​r​l​d​-​f​r​o​m​-​j​a​p​an/

    The Zoho wiki is out of date, please try out knowl­edge cen­ter instead:

    http://​trac​.zooomr​.com/

    I hope that this com­ment helps, and again, please feel free to email me.

    kristo­pher tate
    cto & founder — zooomr

  4. avatar HopeEvey. 17 March 2008, 10:27 pm

    I may have to check out Zooomr. It sounds interesting.

 

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