Heartbreak

I feel like somebody kicked my dog.

See, I've been following the Zooomr launch all week or however long it's been. We've watched the whole thing live on USTREAM, with accompanying chat. That 24 hour stream, and chat are living web2.0 transparency. No, not all the secrets were released, but the loyal fans were able to chat with Thomas Hawk and Kris Tate the masterminds of Zooomr.

Getting to interact with the owners built a connection to the website, but getting to interact with soooo many other photo lovers built a community. I'm not just connected, but I'm part of it.

You AIESEC'rs know what I'm talking about... think about the first conference where you really belonged.

Anyway, after all the sharing and hoping, chatting with Rober Scoble, battling griefers, building cliques, hitting on chicks, throwing love and support to Kris & Thomas, the surge of a couple hundred people chanting ... Zooomr Mark 3 was LIVE.

All the new features were working, and it was fast. So sweet. It's gonna change photosharing. I promise you that.

But a db server went down. And things came to a screeching halt. And that's where things stand at the moment. Kris is going to go look at the server to see if anything can be done.

Robert Scoble put up an awesome post about how this is an amazing opportunity for evangelism... think how much good will a few boxes and techs would create among the zooomrati.

Thomas Hawk has a post up on the Official Zooomr Blog.

We'll be back soon, and when the world changes, we can look back and say... "Zooomr launch?. Yeah, I was there for that. I lost sleep for that. I was a part of that. I believed. And it was worth it."

**Update** Kris posted a video from the data center. It explains why this release has been sooo hard to do, and why things went down.






Zooomr Mark III: Hardware Crash from Kristopher on Vimeo