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PicLens Featured in The Economist

June 9, 2008

PicLens features prominently in this article in The Economist about the growing interest in rethinking how we visualize and interact with information on the web.

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YouTube Exec Joins Cooliris

June 4, 2008

Om Malik notes YouTube exec Sashi Seth is now Cooliris chief revenue officer.
I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Sashi for the past few weeks at Cooliris, and have been impressed with his knowledge of the online advertising space and his drive to make things happen. Cooliris intends to pay the bills using advertising, but has been hampered by […]

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Into the Maelstrom.. Again

May 28, 2008

Curious title…  ring any bells?  No, not the story by Edgar Allen Poe.  I wrote an article a long time ago (2 years, 1 month, and 12 days) with this title to announce my joining the Windows Live team at Microsoft.
I worked from my home in Santa Cruz (California), working with my team in Redmond (Washington). […]

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Play Videos in PicLens!

April 18, 2008

PicLens 1.6.3 released this week adds support for searching and playing YouTube videos on the PicLens 3D wall!  PicLens displays still image thumbnails for videos on the wall.  When you click on an item in the wall, it plays the video in-place.  Play, Pause, Seek, and Volume controls are displayed at the bottom of the […]

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PicLens in the New York Times

March 8, 2008

PicLens is featured in the Business section of the New York Times!  In “Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine” John Markoff writes about the emerging trend in the technology field to rethink the way we interact with technology, and cites PicLens as an example of such a rethink.

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The Cooliris Blog

March 8, 2008

Hey, Cooliris has a blog!  When did that happen?  ;>  I just noticed the new blog link in the footer of piclens.com.
Look to the Cooliris blog for official company news, events, and happenings.  News like hooking up with freewebs.com to provide PicLens and PicLensLite photo gallery viewing for the 20 million user web sites hosted […]

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Ridge Runners at Cooliris

March 3, 2008

My Cooliris cubemate Kevin is a chronic runner.  He has mentioned on more than one occasion about going out for a 6am “refresher” run. 6am! The only way you’ll catch me running at 6am is if my bed is on fire. Actually, a bed on fire would be nice and warm, and hardly an incentive to dash […]

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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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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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CNET Raves About PicLens

February 11, 2008

Rafe Needleman raves about the latest release of PicLens in The Daily Download blog on CNET’s Download.com.
Thanks Rafe!

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