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Live Mesh Wins “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” Crunchies Award

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 [...]

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Live Mesh Nominated for Crunchies Award

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 [...]

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Browse the National Gallery of Australia in PicLens

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 [...]

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PicLens 1.7 Released with Discovery, Return Navigation

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 [...]

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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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PicLens Adds CJK Character Display

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 [...]

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How to Link to PicLens Downloads

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 [...]

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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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NVidia Campaign Features PicLens

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, [...]

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