Comments on: Zooomr Update 2:

by: scohen

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:10:43 +0000

John,
The error you are seeing is harmless and due to flickr’s non-compliant cookies. It should still work just fine.

Of course jUploadr works on linux. It’s developed on linux, linux is my primary OS, and all of my photos have been uploaded via jUploadr running under linux.

There could be other problems like missing GTK libs, or since the error is happening during auth, jUploadr might not be able to find your web browser, but it does work in linux.

by: John

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:20:54 +0000

Hate to say this, but this tool does not seem to work on Linux.

When i try to do the authorization, i get the following error:
Jul 6, 2007 9:15:43 AM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processResponseHeaders
WARNING: Cookie rejected: “$Version=0; cookie_intl=en-us%3Bus; $Domain=flickr.com; $Path=/”. Domain attribute “flickr.com” violates RFC 2109: domain must start with a dot

Thanks,
John

by: scohen

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:39:40 +0000

Nope, no word.
The builds are completed and ready to ship, all I have to do is turn them on once Kris turns them on on his end.

by: Robin Stacey

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:23:40 +0000

Any news from Zooomr on the API key yet? I’m not uploading a thing there until jUploadr is working again!

by: nath

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:45:37 +0000

Any chance for suppport for 23? http://www.23hq.com
They claim that their API is really close to the Flickr API.

Python based FlickrUploader has been converted for 23 but juploader would be better.

by: scohen

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:04:21 +0000

myke,
I feel your pain, but only slightly. I’m not a regular zooomr user, but I have been over to Kris’s a couple times and he’s definitely in a bind.
What happened here is that the hype of mark III got a bit ahead of the coding, and some of Kris’s inexperience is showing. He’s only 19, so he hasn’t made the types of mistakes that one makes in order to learn those painful lessons. It’s rather unfortunate that he’s learning the lessons in such a public and catastrophic fashion.

I’ve been in almost daily contact with Kris, and right now, they just can’t handle all the extra photos that jUploadr will enable. They’re short just about everything hardware-wise. This is a shoestring operation that you’re dealing with here. Kris is the *only* coder.

I have no idea where they got enough money to buy the original servers, but photo sharing isn’t the easiest business to make profitable. Witness Flickr’s quick sale to Yahoo so many years ago. Despite their loyal fanbase, they just couldn’t make it work on their own. Let’s hope Zooomr manages to find some way out of this trouble.

by: myke

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:17:17 +0000

Hey, I for one I am getting a little disillusioned with zooomr. The lack of response and the inability to come through on every single promise/timeframe has gotten tiresome. I understand there are only two people working on the system but surely if it’s as unique and the “best photosharing site in the world” … then why haven’t any investors stepped in? Or why don’t they allow donators via paypal to become mini-investors which would encourage more donations and give people a vested interest in the company thus creating more money and more interest. Hell, even Microsoft got going in the beginning by giving employees slices of the pie. Something like this might galvanize interest in donating if investors can not be brought in via more traditional methods.

As for jUploader … as a Linux user, I’m left stranded (as are many others as I’ve noticed on zooomr’s blog) as zooomr’s web based uploader will not work with Linux even with Firefox having the same base engine in mac, win, and lin. Getting jUploader is a must for me if I have any way of uploading photos at all. I’m not willing to ditch a system I’ve become comfortable with (kubuntu linux) just so I can upload photos to zooomr.

Frankly, right now I think this is simply letting flickr show them up again. They’ve introduced some nice new organizing features and their pro plan is comparable with zooomr’s which doesn’t really add any extra features at this point anyway.

It all seems a bit of a cluster F**** over there at the moment.

by: Dan F.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:55:48 +0000

Thomas Hawk just said this earlier today in a comment on the Zooomr blog:

“We also will have jUploadr back up online soon which works with Linux. Please bear with us while we get this fixed.”

http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/25/zooomr-launches-paid-pro-accounts/#comment-108833

by: scohen

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:47:20 +0000

I’ll update when Kris enables the API key. He’s being slightly elusive (busy?) now.

by: when

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:00:14 +0000

When will you update?