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August 26, 2008

Problem with our Servers, Tuesday August 26

(en Français plus bas)

We experienced a devastating bug while making an update for our server software. Some zoomoramas have been entirely deleted from our database. That means that we have lost the URL (web address) for your zoomoramas. Since each URL has a unique security code, with more possible combinations than galaxies in the universe, it will be impossible for us to recover them. Sometimes too much security settings has unforeseen consequences.

Our proposed solution is to ask you, with our deepest apologies, to re-upload your zoomoramas. You will automatically recover the correct URL and all will be back to normal.

Needless to say that we have learned our lessons, both in our database structure, and in our backup procedure. We apply these changes in the coming days.

We apologize the inconvenience and ask for your understanding.

FRANCAIS

Nous avons eu un bug dévastateur en faisant une mise à jour de nos logiciels serveurs. Un certain nombre de zoomoramas ont été entièrement supprimés de notre base de données. Cela signifie que nous avons perdu l'URL (l'adresse web) pour les zoomoramas. Puisque chaque URL a un code de sécurité unique, avec plus de combinaisons possibles que de galaxies dans l'univers, il serait impossible pour nous de les récupérer. Nos avons trop voulu sécuriser vos données sur nos serveurs et cela a entrainé ce problème.

 

Notre solution proposée est de vous demander, en comptant sur votre aimable tolérance, de re-télécharger vos zoomoramas effacés. Vous récupérerez automatiquement l'URL originale et tout rentrera dans l'ordre. 

 

Inutile de dire que nous avons appris la leçon, tant pour la structure de notre base de données, que pour notre procédure de secours. Nous mettrons en oeuvre ces changements dans les jours qui viennent. 

 

Nous vous présentons toutes nos excuses pour le désagrément et comptons sur votre compréhension.

August 06, 2008

Fashionable zoomoramas with MOOD.FR and SONY

Zoomorama launched a contest with MOOD.FR and SONY for the most attractive  zoomorama about shopping. Mood.fr readers are extremely creative and we have been happily surprised by the level of quality. Zoomoramas include pictures picked from the web (drag and drop an image into ZoomCreator directly), include great captions, and links back to the e-commerce sites.

The winners with win SONY digital cameras that Zoomorama will offer in partnership with SONY France.

Check it out on MOOD.FR

Enjoy.

August 01, 2008

Leornado da Vinci latest painting revealed

Lumiere Technolgy, the Paris based art certification company, certifies that the flee-market discovered painting is in fact an original Leornardo da Vinci ! This would be the most important art discovery of the last fifty years. Lumiere Technology compared the painting nick-named "Profile" to the Mona Lisa and the Lady with an Ermine and found the type of paint used to be the same. Combined with Carbone 14 dating the Lumiere Technology analysis appears to confirm that this is a true discovery of great magnitude.

See here the Paris Match story: Paris_Match_Article_Leonardo_da_Vinci_Profile

See here for the Lumiere Technology Web Site.