To our Cooliris users:

As many of you may have noticed, Cooliris performance on Google Image search and Facebook has been broken recently. Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience. This is certainly not a “Feature” upgrade. Our goal is to provide you with a streamlined media viewing experience, which includes showing you all of the results you deserve.

The issues:

• Facebook: Users are seeing an “Infinite load” screen when attempting to launch Cooliris from Facebook.
• Google Images: Users are only seeing approximately 20 images on the Cooliris Wall, rather than the normal “Infinite Wall”.

We are currently rolling out the fixes to these bugs on our servers, and so the issue should be resolved for you very soon.

You should not have to make any updates on your end to see the bug fix – it should happen automatically. If you think that you are still having issues after the fix has been pushed out to everyone, try clearing your browser cache and restarting your browser. Instructions can be found here.

Thank you again for your patience and for your use of Cooliris!

Season’s greetings from Cooliris!

In the spirit of the season, we’d like to help you share this year’s memories with friends and family with a free Cooliris Holiday Card. We make it easy to pull pictures directly from your Flickr and Picasa albums, and you can email it individually to your friends and family, or share with your online communities. Here’s how:

1. Visit our Holiday Card Maker.
2. Pick your photos. As many as you like from Flickr and Picasa, just enter your Flickr or Picasa username! We recommend you have at least 10 photos to fill up your Wall. To have a specific photo set for your card, we recommend that you create a separate holiday album/set in Picasa or Flickr that contains just the photos that you want to share.
3. Pick a card theme or background. You can even support a charity like the Global Health Corps this holiday season by picking their theme: a donation link will appear on the finished card.
4. Write your season’s greetings – whatever springs to mind!
5. Enter the email addresses of your recipients and send! After you hit send, a drop-down menu will enable you to post the card to your Facebook or Twitter, and give you the option to copy and paste the link to the card onto your blog, website or other social networking sites.

You can literally watch the holidays unfold! The photos in the Cooliris Holiday Card will update continuously as you add photos that you take over the holidays to the Flickr set or Picasa Web Album that you specify for your card.

The possibilities are endless: family photos for loved ones, company photos for colleagues, a holiday showcase for artists and photographers to share their work, or a picturesque mailing to thank past clients and customers for their business. You can send multiple cards for every one of your friends with different photos, messages, and backgrounds for each.

Here is our holiday card to you! We truly appreciate all of the support that you have given us this year.

It only takes a few minutes to remind people you’re thinking of them this holiday season. So send a card with Cooliris, and have a Happy Holiday!

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