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Vote for PicLens!

February 27, 2008

PicLens has been nominated for the CNET 2008 WebWare 100 Awards! Voting is now open to the general public determine the final 100 honorees.
If you’re a PicLens fan, get over there and vote for your favorite plugin!

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Colin Powell Visits Cooliris

February 25, 2008

It was a little after lunch.  The phone rang.  “Who? [Bleep]! I mean, [bleep], yes!  I mean, sure, come on over!”  The email to action: 
If you’re anywhere near the office, get over here!  Randy’s bringing General Colin Powell in to see PicLens!!
A flurry of activity.  Sweeping away today’s lunch debris.  And yesterday’s lunch debris.  And whatever that […]

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The Eskilizer: Showing Love at GDC

February 22, 2008

Ok, first off, I just have to say my new all-time favorite recently discovered funny/witty/hilarious domain name of the week has got to be:  RockPaperShotgun.com   It doesn’t really matter what the site is, the name alone is entertaining enough - just plain hilarious.
Eskil Steenberg, an early contributor to the PicLens concept design team, is back in SF this week […]

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C# Future Focus: Delphi History Repeating

February 21, 2008

Charlie Calvert writes about dynamic method invocation that has been implemented in the .NET DLR and is working its way into getting proper support by the full VS.NET tool set.  Dynamic method invocation is late binding to the extreme - the lookup is performed at runtime, every time the function call executes.  The compiler has […]

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PicLens 1.6.1 IE on CNET

February 21, 2008

PicLens 1.6.1 for Internet Explorer is now available for download from CNET’s download.com.  This should help relieve some of the server load on the PicLens.com mother ship, much like having the Firefox xpi’s downloadable from Mozilla.com.
 Note that if you do a search for PicLens on CNET, you’ll get two items in the search results:  The […]

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McGillveray Studios On PicLens

February 20, 2008

Mark McGillveray recently added mediaRSS (via the PicLens WordPress Plugin) to his professional photo galleries.  
Very cool, Mark!

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Pix.ie + PicLens = Photo Magic

February 14, 2008

James Corbett of EirePreneur discovered PicLens, and quickly twittered his fellow Irish entrepreneur Marcus Mac Innes to ask about viewing Pix.ie photo galleries on the PicLens 3D wall.  Marcus contacted the CoolIris team, and in fairly short order Marcus had Pix.ie generating mediaRSS feeds for PicLens to consume!
Great work, Marcus!

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Zeno.org Adds MediaRSS for PicLensian (and Delphinian) Flair

February 14, 2008

Erwin Jurschitza dropped us a note to let us know that Zeno.org, the German-language online library, has recently implemented mediaRSS feeds for several of its photo collections, such as this van Gogh collection.  It looks great in PicLens!  (I had no idea van Gogh was so prolific!)
Erwin also mentioned that the entire zeno.org site is implemented in […]

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Wired on PicLens

February 14, 2008

Scott Gilbertson over at Wired picked up on the ReadWriteWeb article on PicLens and did a write up of his own for Wired’s MonkeyBites blog.  (Or is it Wired’s Compiler blog?  The title says one thing, but the URL disagrees)
Scott writes:
Piclens is a fun and addictive way to browse Flickr and other image sites. The only […]

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ReadWriteWeb Covers PicLens

February 14, 2008

ReadWriteWeb, one of the top 20 blogs in the world according to Technorati, has written up a nice review of PicLens.  Thanks Josh!

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