Could you explain Cooliris in just 60 seconds?  That was the challenge when Cooliris joined over ten other startups at pariSoma’s Startup Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 28th.

We perfected our elevator pitch for the mixer which featured “60 second spots” from the attending startups.  Our pitch, delivered by Jeff, stole the show!  The event also included the chance to network with the startup community over some drinks.

We look forward to interacting with the startups we met more in the future. Thanks to pariSoma for organizing this awesome event!

On Wednesday, July 7th, Cooliris passed 20,000,000 downloads on Firefox add-ons AMO!!!

To celebrate, on Wednesday, June 30th the Cooliris Community Team visited Mozilla to thank them for helping us reach the 20,000,000 downloads on AMO! We brought 8 cakes that spelled out 20000000, some stickers, and invites to the Cooliris Community Meetup. The Mozilla employees flocked into the kitchen and were VERY appreciative and happy to celebrate with us. Check out these photos that capture the fun!

As part of Mozilla’s Best of 2 Billion Add-ons and one of the Mozilla featured Add-ons, Cooliris and Mozilla enjoy a successful relationship. We look forward to continue working closely with Mozilla in the future!

So here’s something new: We have teamed up with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) to boldly redefine the storage user experience with the introduction of the LifeStudio™ external hard drive family.

LifeStudio provides a brand new external storage solution that seamlessly protects and pulls all of your photos together with online social content and entertainment into the Cooliris 3D Wall. Using our 3D Wall technology as the foundation of the LifeStudio user interface, Hitachi has added additional features and functionality, such as automatic organization of content, integration of online and cloud backup in one solution, and the ability to pull in content from disparate sources, taking the hard drive to new levels.

Highlights of LifeStudio powered by Cooliris include:

MyLife
Quickly find photos, videos, music, and documents stored on your LifeStudio external drive or desktop, and filter by date or keyword.

MySocial
Easily share, view and comment on photos from Facebook, Flickr or Picasa Albums.

Cooliris 3D Wall (of course!)
Navigate and consume multimedia in the beautiful 3D interface you’ve come to know from Cooliris.

We are super excited about being a part of the LifeStudio experience! The LifeStudio drive will be in stores on Friday July 9. Hitachi is also doing a LifeStudio giveaway, so if you want to try to win one of your own, follow them on Twitter! Also, you can get involved with the experience at their Facebook page.

To learn more, see our press release for more details or visit the Hitachi LifeStudio website.

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About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high- value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. Hitachi GST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachigst.com.

Firefox recently crossed 2 billion add-on downloads and guess what? We’re part of their Best of 2 Billion Firefox Add-ons list!

These 25 add-ons were chosen by the Firefox Add-ons Community and by the editors of AMO.

Big thanks to both our users for making Cooliris so popular, and to Mozilla Firefox for the recognition and support!

On Wednesday evening we hosted the first monthly Cooliris Enthusiast Meetup at our HQ in Palo Alto! The assembled community members got to meet and greet with the Cooliris team and were shown new and upcoming Cooliris technologies.

As everyone settled down with some pizza and cold drinks, we got started with a warm welcome to our guests and a little bit about the new Cooliris Community website (cooliris.com/community). Next came a couple product demos and a Q&A session with the Team. The meetup finished with a raffle for the assembled community members and a chance to finish off the awesome food.

We’ll be having Enthusiast Meetups on the last Wednesday of every month so if you would like to be a part of the next one stay tuned!