Have you voted yet? We just found out that PicLens, our ever-popular online 3D viewer, has been selected as a finalist in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards by the editors of CNET Webware.com. PicLens enthusiasts can cast their vote for PicLens by visiting the CNET Webware website.

Voting for this year’s awards will run until March 31. Winners will be announced on April 21, the day before the opening of Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, a CNET co-sponsored event.

This year, users of CNET Webware.com nominated over 5,000 eligible entries, from which the editors honed down to a shortlist of the top 300. “For the most part we think we found the most important webware products,” says Rafe Needleman, an editor for CNET, who helped pick PicLens as a finalist in the browsing category.

We want to give special thanks to our users worldwide and to CNET for so enthusiastically embracing PicLens. We know we could not have made it this far without your support!

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please take 10 seconds to vote!

The past 31 days has been an exhilarating time for the Cooliris Team. Here’s a rundown of some of the happenings:

• We unveiled PicLens 1.6 for Firefox and Internet Explorer, our revolutionary online image viewer that lets you effortlessly drag, search, zoom, and zip around thousands of images in a magical full-screen 3D environment

• We got to hang out with Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who dropped by Cooliris to check out PicLens 1.6 and the “3D Wall” — no kidding, check out the photo below!
  

• We optimized PicLens Lite, which allows webmasters to enable full-screen slideshow on their own websites and WordPress blogs.

• We responded to nearly 3,000+ emails from euphoric users hailing the new “3D Wall” of PicLens. Users described the PicLens experiences as “exquisite”, “stunning”, and even “religious”

• We got featured on 70+ YouTube videos by fans of PicLens

• We launched Cooliris Previews 2.6, featuring a basic slideshow viewer for Google Images and Yahoo Images.

• We danced the night away at our first mega Bhangra party, featuring Rishi (one of our very own team members) and the Stanford University Bhangra Dance Team
  

• We received tasty reviews from CNET, Wired, Downloadsquad, ReadWriteWeb, and hundreds of other blogs and news sources

• We welcomed a handful of new team members: Meg, Krishna, Alex, Jess, Rick, Ryan, Jason, Sarah, Nidhi, Truebe, Paul, Xandra, Noah, Jonah, Rishi, Rohan, Evan, Juan, and two Chris’s.

• We drank lots of coffee and got about 4.9 hours of sleep per night

• We launched this blog!

Needless to say, we’ve all been working tirelessly, but loving it! It’s a great time to be at Cooliris.