Football fans are already fired up for Super Bowl Sunday. Friends are being called, beers are being stockpiled, and chicken wings are flying out of the stores. It’s only natural that the Big Game is accompanied by a similarly impressive amount of pre-gaming.

We excited for Super Bowl XLIII here at Cooliris too, so we made a Super Bowl Channel in Discover that keeps right on top of the action and gives us the latest media.

Get clips and photos from past Super Bowls and about the upcoming game, and even play NFL Flash trivia games to get your head in the game!

Of course, some folks are looking forward to the Super Bowl for a whole other reason – the commercials! Within the hour that the year’s best ads are aired, they’ll be up on our Super Bowl Featured channel, courtesy of Hulu.

So check out the fun and excitement on Cooliris’s Super Bowl channel, available now until February 3rd!

The Cooliris iPhone app has been getting a lot of attention lately “ both MacWorld and Mashable have called it one of the top productivity tools for the iPhone!

Today, with the release of Cooliris for iPhone version 1.3, we’ve added a number of performance improvements, from graphics to usability, making the browsing experience even better.

Version 1.3’s biggest new feature is the addition of the “My Photos” tab, where you can search any public account in Flickr and Picasa, add as many accounts as you would like, then view the albums in Cooliris.There are a number of cool ways to enjoy the My Photos feature:

-         Show off your public Flickr or Picasa photos on the wall

-         Use the send function to email your pictures to your friends while you’re on the go

-         Save pictures from a friend’s album to your iPhone

-         Set pictures from your Flickr and Picasa albums as your iPhone wallpaper

So whether you’re a photo aficionado or just want a smoother, richer Cooliris experience on your iPhone, we hope you enjoy the new version 1.3. To update to this version, just download it here or search for Cooliris in the iTunes App store straight from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

This past month, the Wall Street Journal released “2008: Year in Pictures,” an online retrospective of 2008. The Photowall showcases all of last year’s most poignant moments, from the grandest triumphs to the darkest trials. The photography is visually stunning and certainly deserving of reflection.

The Photowall leverages our Cooliris embedded wall technology, which allows webmasters to put a 3D wall of photos on their own sites. To learn more how you can create a wall of your own, visit developer.cooliris.com.

Denver Academy in Colorado is well-known for the innovative teaching techniques they employ to help students with learning differences and unique learning profiles. Teachers at Denver Academy are always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to present their material.

The most recent addition to DA’s educational tools and strategies is the integration of Cooliris technology on Smart Boards “ interactive, touch-screen whiteboards they received as part of a grant from the Morgridge Family Foundation’s 21st Century Classrooms Collaboration.

In the classroom, Cooliris is used in image research, art history lessons, and videos and demos of science processes, and a number of other applications.

“The [Cooliris] technology allows the students to interact with artwork in ways that were not possible before, says Kris Fritzsche, Arts and Technology Coordinator at Denver Academy. For example, when we teach art history, we can use the slide show feature to pull up all the works from a particular period or artist.”

Even lessons on the water cycle had students vying for a position at the SmartBoard. The Cooliris wall of images depicting evaporation, condensation, cloud formation, and precipitation enables the teacher to progress fluidly through each stage of the cycle. Then, the teacher brings up new images where the descriptions disappeared and students could come to the board and write the details of each stage over the picture.

“The addition of the Smart Boards and Cooliris technology have transformed the ways students interact with the topic we are studying,” said Evan Borg, Head of Elementary Schools at Denver Academy. “Using Cooliris in my classes helps engage the students and reinforces the subject matter because it allows students to associate terms with images. This has proven especially valuable for those students who are visual learners.”

Denver Academy’s success at teaching with the combination of Smart Boards and Cooliris points towards a new direction for classroom education: a media-rich environment that truly captures the attention of the younger, technologically-savvy generations and puts an entire world’s worth of information at their fingertips.

This Tuesday, Washington, DC will host a record-breaking crowd of millions for the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. But it doesn’t matter where you are “ you can still get a front row seat to history in the making, with Cooliris’s Inauguration Channel!

We’ll be streaming Fox’s coverage of Obama’s Inaugural Address live in Cooliris, courtesy of Hulu, beginning Tuesday, Jan 20^th, at 7 AM PST. The Presidential Inauguration Channel also features the last 23 presidential inaugural speeches and Obama’s weekly addresses from December and January, as well as a range of inauguration content from the New York Times and others!