Danny Thorpe » YouTube http://dannythorpe.com Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 YouTube Exec Joins Cooliris http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/04/youtube-exec-joins-cooliris/ http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/04/youtube-exec-joins-cooliris/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:11:29 +0000 dthorpe http://dannythorpe.com/2008/06/04/youtube-exec-joins-cooliris/ 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 the fact that none of the current ad formats really work well in the immersive PicLens 3D experience. Text ads are just wrong in a full-screen wall of photos, and existing banner ads are just plain noxious.

Cooliris knows what they need to solve that quandry, and Sashi is the guy to make it happen.

Welcome, Sashi! Congrats Cooliris!  ;>

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Also new in this PicLens release is the display of image and video titles below the image.  As you move the mouse around over the wall, the titles for the images nearest the mouse fade in, and fade out again as the mouse moves away.  The titles come directly from the <title> elements found in the mediaRSS feed of the web site.  For supported sites that don’t provide RSS feeds (like Google Images), we show the image file name.

I’ve found that having title text near the image thumbnails on the wall leads me to notice and click on more things out of curiousity.  The image itself might not be all that remarkable, but when the text below it says “Ferret training”, you just gotta find out what that’s about!

Check out the new demo video on Piclens.com to see video playing on the wall.  Better yet, install PicLens and see it live! 

PicLens 1.6.3 is available for download now on Piclens.com.  It will be available on mozilla.org, download.com, and other download providers in a few days. 

If you originally installed PicLens from mozilla.org, you don’t need to do anything to get the new PicLens release:  Firefox will notice when the new PicLens version is available on mozilla.org and will prompt you to update.  If you’re desperate to see video playback in PicLens right now, you can install from Piclens.com.  Your Firefox will then watch Piclens.com for updates instead of Mozilla.org, so you’ll continue to get updates a few days before your moz buddies.

More Lens Power!

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