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January 12, 2009
Microsoft’s Live Mesh was awarded top honors in the “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” category at the Crunchies Awards on Jan 10, beating out other nominees in the category including Facebook Connect and Google Chrome. Live Mesh is a file sharing application that enables users to access their data from a variety of devices, while online or [...]
Tags: award, Azure, CoolIris, Crunchies, Live Mesh, PicLens
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December 30, 2008
Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform has been nominated for the 2008 Crunchies “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” award! The winner will be determined by public vote, so get yourself over to http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/votes/ to cast your vote for your favorite technologies of 2008.
The Crunchies competition and award ceremony recognizes and celebrates the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of [...]
Tags: award, CoolIris, Crunchies, GigaOm, Live Mesh, Microsoft, PicLens, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat
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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.
Tags: CoolIris, PicLens, reviews
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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 [...]
Tags: ads, CoolIris, PicLens, YouTube
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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). [...]
Tags: Chuck Jazdzewski, CoolIris, Microsoft, telecommuting, Visual Studio
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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 [...]
Tags: CoolIris, PicLens, video, YouTube
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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.
Tags: CoolIris, New York Times, PicLens
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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 [...]
Tags: CoolIris, freewebs, PicLens
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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 [...]
Tags: commute, CoolIris, skyline, trail running
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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 [...]
Tags: Colin Powell, CoolIris, PicLens
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