Today, we’re announcing the launch of Decks, a new shopping experience created for iPad that turns discovery of your favorite products, brands, and services into a fun and relaxing coffee-table experience.

The Decks app is available for free in the iTunes App Store, and a simple deck editor is available at www.decksapp.com.

Your brand new buying experience

We all know that browsing and purchasing across multiple websites or apps on iPad can ruin the shopping experience. Decks solves this problem in a unique and elegant way: create and enjoy a personalized collection of shopping catalogs as decks of cards that update continuously. It’s fun, intuitive, and fast.

Decks launches with support for Groupon, Zappos, The New York Times Best Sellers™ list, top movies, the most popular iPad apps, as well as a new way to experience Flickr photos. More merchants and product categories will be added in the weeks to come. With real-time updates, you’ll always have access to the latest products and daily promotions. With a tap, you can even share your favorites with family, friends and followers via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

For businesses and consumers alike

For businesses looking to give their customers a unique iPad buying experience, Decks provides a publishing platform to create these game-changing decks that are visually stunning, continuously updating and easy to create. Decks displays your products front and foremost, only one tap away from a purchase directly from your company’s webpage.

Contact us at business@decksapp.com for more information on how you can use Decks on iPad to beautifully display your content for your business.

What’s behind Decks?
Decks builds on Discover, our award-winning iPad app that turns Wikipedia into a beautiful magazine experience. Discover is now approaching 1 million downloads and was the #1 free iPad app in the App Store across six countries for seven consecutive days.

Like Discover, Decks leverages the PageKit™ technology built by Cooliris, which renders dynamic content as a fast and fluid experience on iPhone or iPad with significantly smaller download sizes.

In tandem with the launch of the iPad app today, we’re also releasing the specifications on how to write and distribute premium content for Decks along with the documentation for the PageKit™ syntax. To help designers and creators to get started, we’re providing several high-quality example decks on github.com and even a real-time deck editing feature inside the Decks app. Visit developer.decksapp.com to learn more.

Try out the free Decks app, and enjoy your new buying experience!

Hello! We’re excited to be at SXSW to catch up with old friends, make new connections, and promote our newest app LiveShare. Come meet us there to say hello, see cool demos, and pick up some killer swag/giveaways! Get up-to-the-minute updates on Facebook or Twitter.

The ultimate live photo guide to SXSW
While at SXSW, there’s always one dilemma – which party should we go to next? LiveShare will make your decision easier by showing you live photo streams for each party going on, so you can see exactly what’s going on in the moment and decide which is the hottest party to be at. So while you’re there, don’t forget to download LiveShare and share your party photos with everyone in the photo streams!

Share NSFW photos in private groups
For those photo moments that might be, let’s say NSFW, create private groups on the fly with your friends and share all the crazy times with each other in one group stream.

Visit us at BOOTH 103/105 & take your photo at our photobooth
March 14-17 in the expo hall

Attend our PANEL
Friday, March 11 3:30pm @ The Hilton Salon K
“Promiscuity or Private Groups: Mobile Photo Sharing”
Join Mayank Mehta, our co-founder, and Louis Gray, respected tech enthusiast and blogger, in the discussion around mobile photo sharing, the hottest topic in Silicon Valley.
RSVP on Facebook.

Come to our PARTY
Sunday, March 13 8-11pm at the Republic Live!
RSVP at Eventbrite or on Facebook and download LIVESHARE for your chance to win one of the cool giveaways throughout the night.

Get the newest update for LiveShare (iPhone)!

Now you can notify your friends about new streams you create via SMS, so it’s easier for you and your friends to stay connected! Also, you can now share your favorite streams and photos to Twitter. (P.S. Follow LiveShare on Twitter!)

This version also has performance and stability enhancements, so you should see much smoother interactions.

Please send us feedback to liveshare@cooliris.com and let us know how you’re using it, any suggestions you have, and anything else you’d like to share!