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If you are obsessed with the show as many are, you can go to extreme lengths and Mad Men Yourself creating your very own Mad Men avatar. You can even start collecting Mad Men Barbie dolls!

Our channel features interviews, photos, and some entertaining spoofs. Being the feminist that I am, one of my favorites is Mad Women, reversing the blatant sexism portrayed on the show.

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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!

Cooliris is proud to highlight Barrett-Jackson.com as this month’s Featured Site! Barrett-Jackson is the second featured site in our series of posts profiling websites that have implemented the Cooliris embed wall.

Barrett-Jackson has blossomed over some 39 years into the world’s most prestigious hub for collector car auctions and events. After meeting in the early 1960s, Russ Jackson and Tom Barrett formed a long-lasting friendship and partnership. In 1971, the two put on the company’s first collector car auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. With the success of the Scottsdale event, Barrett-Jackson expanded to host shows in Palm Beach, FL and Las Vegas, NV.  Barret-Jackson is dedicated to innovation and strives to offer the world’s most desirable vehicles with an experience that appeals to everyone.

Cooliris helps Barrett-Jackson.com mirror the company’s dedication to innovation in their car auctions. Cooliris is used on Barrett-Jackson’s homepage to present the cars from those auctions in an interactive and visually appealing 3D wall.

To learn more about the Barrett-Jackson/Cooliris partnership, we talked with Evan Baltz, Barrett-Jackson’s Director of Web Development.

Q: In what ways has Cooliris enhanced your users’ experience on Barrett-Jackson.com?
A: With us, it’s all about cars. People love to look at cars. We needed a cool way to be able to present the beautiful cars from our auctions and give our website visitors an interactive experience. The CooIiris photo wall give us a way to show thousands of car photos in a single wall, or display event photos, promotional videos, and other important information in a slick format.  It’s an especially cool experience in our My Garage area where users can browse 25,000+ car photos and select ones to save to their own personal Cooliris wall. It’s just a great way to give visitors what they want.

Q:How did you first find out about Cooliris?
A: You know, I don’t even remember now where I first saw the Cooliris wall (called PicLens back then). I think I may have seen it in the Firefox add-ons area and tried it out. When I saw it and what it could do, I knew I wanted it. I implemented it first on my own personal website and then brought it to Barrett-Jackson as it served as a great way display our car photos and videos. The enhancements that have been made over time have added even more ways to take advantage of the “cool” technology. I am looking forward to what comes next!

The ease of navigation and sleek 3D interface make Cooliris the perfect way for car enthusiasts and first time buyers alike to become immersed while browsing the cars from Barrett-Jackson auctions. Since the site utilizes a dynamic media RSS feed, new media is uploaded to the site automatically shows up in the Cooliris embed wall viewer.

Cooliris is very happy to be working with passionate innovators like Barrett Jackon. We look forward to more exciting partnerships in the future!

Jack Dubie and friends

Cooliris is proud to honor Jack Dubie as this month’s “Featured Cooliris Enthusiast.” Jack is the second featured enthusiast in our series of posts profiling active members of the Cooliris Community. It’s a small token of appreciation for all of the hard work these community members put into spreading Cooliris around the world.

Jack is a senior at Stanford University majoring in Math and Computer Science.  Born in Essex Junction, Vermont (the best state in the union) , he is a Midfielder on the Stanford Club Lacrosse Team.   In high school, he played football, basketball, and baseball at the varsity level.  In addition to his interest in sports, Jack has always been motivated to work with younger kids. After his senior year, he was a group leader at King’s Kids, a soccer-themed camp for children in Lebanon. Later in Peru, he helped run a week-long camp for children with polio. In addition to running two awesome camps this summer, Jack is starting an enterprise software company in Vermont with some friends. An aspiring entrepreneur, he’s committed to equipping young people with technical skills to change the world.  This summer Jack is running a sports and computer camp for kids teaching them how to create websites that utilize Cooliris.

Website by one of Jack's students featuring Cooliris

Q: When did you first hear about Cooliris?
A: I first heard about Cooliris at one of Stanford’s job fairs.

Q: What was your initial reaction to Cooliris?
A: Initially, I was really impressed by Cooliris’ smooth scrolling and beautiful user interface.

Q: In what ways have you shared Cooliris with your community?
A: Me and some friends started a sports and computers camp for 9-11 year old boys in Palo Alto called The Boys of Summer Camp (theboysofsummercamp.com). This year I showed the kids how to make simple HTML websites and embed APIs on them. One of the APIs I picked was Cooliris. Most of my middle school campers figured out how to use and customize the Cooliris Express Wall without any help.

Q: What are other’s reactions when you show them Cooliris? What is your favorite feature of Cooliris?
A: People are usually pretty impressed when I’ve gotten the chance to show Cooliris to them. My favorite Cooliris feature is easily the Embed Wall.

Q: Do you have any advice for community members looking for ways to share Cooliris with their own communities?
A: Use Cooliris on your website – it looks great!