So if you know me at all you know that I spend most of my free time on Jinzora. If you don't know what Jinzora is, in a nut shell it's a web based streaming and media management application written in PHP. I've been working on Jinzora for almost 2 years now and it's grown to a user base of around 6,000. Hopefully that number is gonna jump like crazy now.

When I started Jinzora there were a few others like us, Zina (which is what Jinzora originally started from) and Netjuke. I originally modeled a lot of what I did off Netjuke, as they really were the big player. Netjuke's been around for about 5 years now and the main reason I didn't just use it was I didn't care for it's interface, I'm very visual and wanted something that looked as good as it worked.

So why tell you all this history? Well if you read the headline you probably know. This week we announced that the Jinzora and Netjuke teams are merging. I've been speaking with the guys at Netjuke and we all couldn't be more excited about this merger. This is truly a merger, we will all be working on our next product (whatever we call it, we're not sure yet...). It's looking like I'll be the project lead for this new project, as I've got the time and desire to push it forward.

What does this mean? Well it means that our 3.0 version is gonna just floor everyone. If you didn't notice from the headline we also released Jinzora 2.0 which was over a year in the making. Ben Dodson and I spent countless hours on it and are very proud of what we've produced. So far we're getting great feedback on it, I hope you'll give it a try.

So drop by our news page and read the full press release about our release and the merger. Oh, and of course post back here and let me know what you think...