Hope everyone is having a pleasant beginning of the week! We have two new updates for you:

Cooliris version 1.11.6 has been released for Internet Explorer and Safari users. Support for Firefox 3.6 beta is coming soon!

Also, on an even more exciting note, Cooliris Express now includes Facebook as one of the content sources, meaning you can put up your Facebook photos on a Cooliris Wall! Go ahead and try making a Wall of your Facebook photos and post them to Facebook for a cool way of showing off a new album, or post it to your blog or Twitter. It’s super easy and literally takes only seconds!

Hope you enjoy these new enhancements!

Only a few weeks left until the holidays are over! Have you sent your holiday cards yet? We’ve just made it even easier for you to send a Cooliris Holiday Card, even if you don’t have your own holiday photos to include in the card.

Use our sample holiday photo set to send a festive card to your friends and family. These photos display on default when you access the Holiday Card Maker. You can still customize your photo set by entering your Flickr or Picasa username, if you have one.

Also, the National Breast Cancer Foundation is a recent addition to the Cooliris Holiday Card. Select their theme to support this cause and encourage donations to the NBCF this holiday season!

Happy Holidays!

It’s been an eventful day here at Cooliris! We’ve just officially released our beta version of Cooliris for Chrome, which is now available at the new Google Chrome Extensions site.

Only Windows users of Chrome can take advantage of this new beta release. Chrome extensions for Mac are not yet available, but it sounds like it will be coming soon!

Hurry and download the Cooliris beta for Chrome and and help us become one of the most popular Chrome extensions! Please send any feedback about this beta version to beta@cooliris.com and don’t forget to give us a rating!

We have some very exciting news for those who are looking for a brand new way to get the Cooliris Wall with custom content onto pretty much any website, social network or blog, with no technical skills needed!

Cooliris Express, formerly known as the Cooliris Embed Wall, is now easier than ever with a step-by-step wizard that allows you to easily pull any content from Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, or media RSS feed and post it to your social networks and websites. Here’s our Holiday Wall, created with Cooliris Express!

Get a Cooliris Wall of your own onto your favorite website with three simple steps:

1. Choose your content – you can choose a user stream or search from Flickr, Picasa, or YouTube, or enter any Media RSS feed.
2. Customize the appearance of your Wall – choose from our custom backgrounds (including a festive theme for the holidays), customize the number of rows, and choose the menu options you want to appear on your Wall.
3. Post it to a social network or website! With the integration of Gigya, you can post to a variety of sites with just one click, including Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Yahoo, and more. For more flexibility, you can copy and paste the provided embed code of your custom Wall onto any other website.

With Cooliris Express, you can share a personal Flickr stream of your holiday pictures and post it to your blog. Alternatively, you could choose a favorite stream, like a YouTube keyword search for “fail moments”, and post it to Twitter. Or, simply choose “standard feed” from the YouTube video source list and select “Most popular” to get a dynamic feed of the popular YouTube videos of the day.

Another cool feature is that if the content feeds that you chose are updated, your Wall will dynamically update with the new content. So during the holidays, you can continue to add more photos that you take to your Flickr album and see it immediately update on your Cooliris Wall. Or, if your Wall is displaying the “Recently featured” YouTube videos, your Wall will be constantly updating with fresh and new videos.

There are tons of different ways you can use the new Cooliris Express. Leave a comment with how you’re going to use it!

Thank you to all of the users that have notified us regarding a recent notification they have been receiving from their Anti Virus software.

Users are reporting that certain programs are identifying Cooliris as providing information that contains a “Recognition pattern of the HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen HTML script virus”.

We want to assure you that Cooliris has not been infected with a script virus, nor have we changed our program to trigger this type of notification.

We are working with the anti virus software companies to work on this issue – it is likely that a change was made to their code that incorrectly started identifying Cooliris as a potential threat.

If you happen to receive this message, you may simply choose to “Allow” Cooliris the access that your anti virus program is attempting to block. Nothing has changed about the Cooliris that you know and love that would make choosing this option harmful in the least.

Thank you for your understanding, and for keeping us aware of issues like these.