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Server upgrade, Site off-line for Wednesday January 27, 2010

UPDATE:

Servers upgrade is done. Service is back to normal except for some issues with ZoomExpress that should be resolved tomorrow, Friday. Thank you for your patience.

La maintenance des serveurs est terminée. Le service est de retour à la normale, sauf pour quelques problèmes avec ZoomExpress qui seront résolu demain, vendredi. Merci de votre compréhension.

(French Below)

ENGLISH
 
A scheduled maintenance will be held on our servers from Wednesday, January 27th to Thursday, January 28th early afternoon.
During this time, the zoomorama.com website will not be available, upload and update of new zoomoramas will not be possible.
 
Of course, the service remains available for the display of existing contents.
 
The purpose of this temporary interruption is to improve our service and the speed of access to our contents.
 
We are sorry for this disagreement.
 
Thanks for your understanding.
 
Kind regards
 
Zoomorama Team



FRENCH

Une intervention de maintenance programmée sur nos serveurs aura lieu du Mercredi 27 Janvier au Jeudi 28 Janvier début d’après-midi.
Durant cette période, le site zoomorama.com ne sera pas consultable, l'upload et  la mise à jour de nouveaux zoomoramas ne seront pas possibles.
 
Bien entendu, le service reste assuré en ce qui concerne l'affichage des contenus existants.
 
Cet arrêt provisoire a pour but d’améliorer notre service et la rapidité d’accès à nos contenus.
 
Nous nous excusons par avance pour ce désagrément.
 
Vous remerciant de votre compréhension.
 
Cordialement.
 
L’Equipe Zoomorama

IZIS, the Great Photographer Rediscovered

In 1951 the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibited five French photographers who were inventing a new "street view" style of photography. Their names are now famous: Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau et Willy Ronis, and Izis being the least famous among them

The city of Paris is not making us "rediscover" this amazingly talented photographer with a wonderful exhibit of 270 prints, and a beautiful online exhibits with full HD images produced with the zoomorama technology. The online exhibit also contains a great video wall with ten YouTube videos placed side by side that you can view one after another without ever changing page. 

For anyone interested you can get the XML source code to check out how easy it is to program such a mini-site. Simple press the "s" key while your cursor in on the zoomorama.

For the full description of the exhibit, running from Jan 20th until May 29th 2010, go to this page (French). Beautiful Online Design by Daniel de Fuenmayor.

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City of Paris remembers the 1910 amazing flood with Zoomorama

The city of Paris opened a major exhibition yesterday in remembrance of the 100 years anniversary of the 1910 major flood. The Seine flooded the city up to 8 meters ! All major monuments were affected, as well as all aspect of city life.

See below the virtual exhibit, or here the page on Paris.fr (French) : Link to Paris.fr details of the exhibit

With Zoomorama the city offers the Internet public never seen before original documents that can been seen in full details. Zoom in and be amazed at all the details of a city under water, from the Eiffel Tower to the St Lazard Train Station. Read the NewsPapers from 100 years ago as well as postcards sent from Paris.

You can also visit all the specific locations and views HD images for specific locations in the city thanks to Google Maps combined with Zoomorama: Google Mashup of 1910 Paris Flood

Technically this took only four days of programming using some CSS, and a little Javascript. The Zooming technology makes developing such exhibit a breeze, and for a significant budget saving. The city of Paris is so pleased with Zoomorama's technology that it already requested that another major exhibit be provided online using Zoomorama, with even more interactivity. More on this Photography exhibit in a few days !

Interview with ADOBE TV from earlier

Here is a interview for Adobe TV from back in March, but it's still useful to explain in 5 minutes what Zoomorama can do. In ENGLISH.

How to Promote a Theater Play with Zoomorama

Theaters in Paris are starting to use Zoomorama for a more effective promotion of their shows. They can easily create a collage with the poster, some photos, and a video teaser. Then the collage can as easily be picked up by bloggers, or even ticketmaster for direct presentation where potential customers are.

Simple and Effective, keywords for Zoomorama !

See here a zoomorama for an upcoming show of a play by Moliere, Tartuffe, directed by Laurent Delvert.