Everyone gets a little bit antsy on Fridays due to looming weekend excitement. To help us get prepared for the weekend, we have regular all-company meetings where we fill each other in on what’s been going on, share a few laughs, and enjoy some kind of treat. It’s a pretty sweet little tradition.

Of course, such congregations always prove to be great photo opportunities! Here’s a shot of the whole Cooliris team right outside of the brand new signage on our front office door.

Notice all the happy, smiling faces. We’re all pumped for a couple days of freedom, and surely you guys must be too! Have a great weekend, everyone!

PRESS RELEASE

July 16, Palo Alto, CA — Whether you are a publisher, an advertiser, or just a fan of the next-generation Web, you might be interested in today’s announcement of the Cooliris Publisher Network, a brand new way of online advertising that launched in conjunction with the Infiniti G Convertible ad campaign. The campaign is being run across multiple sites including Yahoo! News, Golf.com, the New York Magazine, and Style.com.

Teaming up with OMD, media giant and ag ency of record for Infiniti, Cooliris has created an innovative solution that allows publishers to present rich media advertising on a streaming, infinite 3D Wall of content. Compared to traditional HTML interfaces, the Cooliris solution boasts a 4-fold increase in content selection and up to 12.5 times increase in overall content consumption.

“The partnership between Infiniti and Cooliris has helped bring about a new media paradigm, in which creative and media teams partner with publisher and technology teams to bring about a new, better user experience for the digital space using the most advanced display technology currently available,” said Ben Poore, Vice President, Infiniti. “We are excited that this collaboration creates targeted and engaging solutions for delivering Infiniti’s brand messaging to consumers.”

The Publisher Network leverages the Cooliris Embed Wall, an embeddable Adobe Flash-based version the popular Cooliris browser plugin that provides a faster way to browse photos and videos by displaying content on an infinitely scrollable 3D Wall. Premium publishers can now post the Cooliris experience directly into their websites, drive more views and engagement of their content, while also gaining supplemental revenue opportunities with well-known brands.

OMD accelerates the adoption of this cutting-edge technology among key publishers with its Infiniti campaign, where their ads are displayed unobtrusively across a block of up to ninestunning image tiles within the Cooliris 3D Wall embedded across multiple publisher sites and the Cooliris browser application.

Publishers such as the Wall Street Journal website have used the Embed Wall to showcase large galleries of photos. The Regis & Kelly website has also leveraged this technology to run contests and programs. Now, through participation in the Cooliris Publisher Network, publishers are combining the interactivity of a 3D Wall of their media content with brand advertising.

Over 8000 websites now use the Cooliris Embed Wall.  Although only publishers and brands participating in the Cooliris Publisher Network are able to place ads in the Embed Wall, owners of any website, big or small, can still embed the Cooliris 3D Wall (without advertising) on their site by visiting http://developer.cooliris.com. 

Palo Alto, CA “  June 2, 2009 “ Today, Cooliris announced that NVIDIA is using the Cooliris Wall to demonstrate its revolutionary 3D Vision experience at Computex 2009, one of the largest technology fairs in the world. NVIDIA 3D Vision® is the world’s first high-definition 3D stereo solution for home entertainment. Merging the two technologies, the Cooliris Wall was unveiled in true 3D for the first time, making it possible for users to enjoy their favorite media on a real three-dimensional wall.

NVIDIA 3D Vision combines high-tech wireless glasses, a high-power IR emitter, and advanced software that works exclusively on GeForce® GPUs to generate visual experiences in full stereoscopic 3D ” transforming traditional games, videos, and photos into a wholly immersive, multi-dimensional experience.

We are excited to be coordinating closely with NVIDIA on providing consumers with a thrilling 3D experience, says Marc Shedroff, Head of Distribution and Content Partnerships at Cooliris. The Cooliris application fits naturally with NVIDIA’s new 3D Vision technology, and enables users to enjoy the awesome content that they have grown accustomed to in a revolutionary way in Cooliris.

By combining the NVIDIA 3D Vision technology with the Cooliris application, users can see the Cooliris Wall of media as if it has real depth going into their computer screen.  When they select images to be enlarged, the images appear to seamlessly pop out of the screen, giving the illusion that an infinite world of images is at their fingertips. This enables Cooliris users to dive deeper into online news, photos and videos, social networks, and other media content as if it were floating right in front of them.

NVIDIA 3D Vision technology is the perfect platform for showcasing just how cool the Cooliris application really is, says Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce GPU business at NVIDIA. Their flexible and dynamic interface when combined with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology creates a powerful experience that enables the user to consume rich media in a new and stimulating way.

We’re a finalist in the TiE50 Awards!

The TiE50 Awards recognize the hottest emerging startups in five focus segments: Consumer Web, Internet Infrastructure, Cleantech, Wireless and Software.

Voting closes on Thursday, May 7, 2009, so please support us and vote for Cooliris in the Software category. Thank you!

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Wow – thanks everyone for nominating us for CNET’s Webware 100! The Webware 100 recognizes the top 100 web applications across 30 different categories.

Thanks to you guys and to CNET, we’ve been selected as a Finalist! We’re super excited about this – please help us win this home by voting for us! Thanks so much for your support.