My Impeccable Timing
April 14th, 2006 by MarkI’m sorry about my photos, everybody. I honestly don’t know how I manage to time shit this badly. A mere three #$@!ing days after telling all of you about the Baidu MP3 search, they started blocking US songs. Now, after moving my photos over to Zooomr, and blogging joyfully about it, their server’s been slammed and my page isn’t serving pics. This time it only took two days for the service’s servers to get slammed after my enthusiastic recommendation. I’m getting better.
Fortunately, unlike Baidu, this won’t be a permanent problem. According to Kris, Zooomr has just received some serious funding, and the service should get sufficent hardware pretty quickly. I can’t say for sure how long it will be for John and the rest of you in China, though. In the mean time, I’m thinking of maybe writing an AJAX solution to swap out the pictures and stream them from Flickr at the click of a button. That would be kinda cool… if I weren’t so lazy.
Well, rest assured John. I’m not gonna be adding any more photos that are just streamed from Zooomr until people can see the ones already up here. Your refund is on the way, Maoman. 
Update: I guess even I’m not that lazy. It only took about 20 minutes to set up some AJAX photo swapping from backups on my server and backup all the Zooomr pics on the blog. I haven’t gotten them all uploaded to Flickr, though. I’m thinking of maybe making some global “help, swap them all coz I live behind the great firewall” button, but that would actually be a bit of work.
Can you see the photos now, Maoman?
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April 16th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Mark, the problem is you’re too much of an early adopter. Back in 2000 at CU, you were about the only guy I knew who used Mozilla (netscape 6 at the time). Now everybody uses Firefox. It was the same thing with Winamp, Skype, Mapquest, and everything. Whenever there’s some new shit out there, you can’t seem to wait long enough for it to get good before using it. Heck you don’t even wait long enough for it to be clear it will EVER be good.
Based on how much your investment returns have beaten the crap out of mine (and everyone’s) I don’t really want to bet against you. But RIGHT NOW Baidu, Linux, and Zooomr still aren’t that great.
April 17th, 2006 at 1:45 am
Mark: Sorry about the brief downtime; The new stuff will be on its way sometime tomorrow — I’m planning on releasing Zooomr 2 along side the new goodies. I’d like to offer you a pro account if I have not already.
Alex, I’m going to have to disagree completely. Baidu seems to work wonders for Chinese people — So great that Google has been thinking about acquiring them. Don’t get me started on Linux, which is most-likely serving this blog and our comments (and perhaps even Baidu!).
Simply put, I would like to know the reasoning behind your words.
April 17th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Thanks, Kristopher! I’m at http://beta.zooomr.com/people/Mark. A pro account would be awesome. I’ll keep my eye on your blog to see what stuff you guys add. Honestly, I think Zooomr’s already great in terms of features. More servers, and preferably a few in China are what top my wish list for you guys.