July 9, 2008
John and Bronwen of SoulSolutions have completed an RSS upgrade for the Australian government Prints And Printmaking web site, which gives free public access to something like 18,000 images of artwork in the National Gallery of Australia. With all those images indexed in RSS, you can now browse those works of art in PicLens halfway […]
Tags: art, Australia, mediaRSS, PicLens
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July 2, 2008
The PicLens guys and gals have rolled out a new 1.7 release with quite a few new navigational aides and features. I’m a little late to the party with this post, as 1.7 went public a few weeks ago while I was distracted with bootstrapping the new job at Microsoft.
The three headliners for this 1.7 […]
Tags: Amazon, browser plugin, PicLens
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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 14, 2008
In the recently released Piclens build 1.6.4.2795, we’ve added support for displaying non-English / non-Western language characters in the image titles on the PicLens 3D wall. You can see the results on mediaRSS photo web sites in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other languages. You can also play with this with carefully placed queries to major image search […]
Tags: Chinese, CJK, fonts, Japanese, Korean, language, multilingual, PicLens, text
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April 21, 2008
We’re flattered, delighted, and ecstatic that so many web sites are directing their users to download PicLens. Great! The more the merrier.
Just one thing: Web site authors, please be careful how you link to the PicLens downloads. PicLens supports a wide variety of browsers and operating systems, and different downloads are required for each. Please don’t link […]
Tags: browser plugin, downloads, Identity Archipelago, PicLens
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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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April 14, 2008
NVidia recently launched a massive marketing campaign ($30 million estimated by ValleyWag) to educate consumers on the benefits of having a strong GPU inside your computer. PicLens features prominently in this campaign, as PicLens demonstrates how 3D graphics can enhance the user experience outside of a gaming context.
NVidia is also using PicLens in its performance comparison kiosk, […]
Tags: GPU, NVidia, PicLens
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March 19, 2008
The Gallery project, perhaps the most widely used open-source photo gallery web server subsystem in the world, is updating their RSS feed generator module to support mediaRSS. That means you will soon be able to view your Gallery-managed web photos in PicLens!
In this message thread on the Gallery discussion forums, user ‘valiant’ mentions that the new mediaRSS (PicLens!) support is […]
Tags: gallery, mediaRSS, PicLens
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March 16, 2008
A couple of website authors out there have had a little difficulty figuring out how to get their web sites set up with mediaRSS feeds to support PicLens browsing. You can follow our instructions for how to construct a mediaRSS feed and link it into your HTML pages and still get no joy from PicLens […]
Tags: IIS, mediaRSS, PicLens
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