Fans are so smitten with PicLens that the YouTube videos keep streaming in. From demos to reviews, and even just music video galleries compiled by users who want an awesome new way to share their albums, the number of PicLens videos has shot well past 100.

Giovanni Antico discovered the power of PicLens when navigating his Flickr albums. Giovanni writes, “I was so excited to see my photos as if they were in a boundless gallery that I recorded a video of such experience. PicLens gave me a whole new way to browse images, combining spectacular navigation with ease of use.” The album video he created is a staff favorite. Check it out!

Cool, huh? Did seeing that just spark your creative side? There are a lot of neat themes for a Piclens video. Maybe you’d like a new way to commemorate your family vacation. Maybe you’ve been wanting to make a music video on YouTube for a while but just haven’t found the right medium. Or maybe you’ve got an artist’s eye and can use our 3D wall to form a moving pointillist piece out of hundreds of disparate tiny images! (Or maybe, just maybe, I watched Ferris Bueller recently and have Seurat on the noggin.) Whatever you want to share with us, put it up on YouTube and drop us a line about it, and you may just end up on our blog!

PRESS RELEASE

REDMOND, WA, March 11, 2008. Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace has selected PicLens as this week’s featured download on its IE Add-Ons webpage.

Window’s Market Place is Microsoft’s primary portal for over 5,000 downloads from over 2,000 companies. Add-ons selected by Microsoft are carefully screened by Microsoft and rated by users to ensure they meet the quality standards demanded by users.

The feature placement of PicLens on Windows Marketplace starts today and will run for one week. Thereafter, PicLens can be downloaded from the product detail page of IE Add-Ons or our own website at www.piclens.com.

Hitting the newspaper stands today is an article in the New York Times that describes our popular PicLens product as an example of new generation technology for Web navigation. You can grab a copy of the article “Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine” in the Business Section of the paper or at nytimes.com, which released the online version yesterday.

Journalist John Markoff cites Nintendo Wii, the Apple iPhone, and PicLens as technologies that bring computer screens to life in new, immersive ways. Markoff goes on to highlight PicLens and its unique immersive features.

Austin Shoemaker, our very own chief technology officer at Cooliris, Inc., is quoted in the article.

The New York Times is the largest 7-day paper in the United States, with home delivery in over 340 markets and a net audience of 22 million for its print and online publications. The publisher joins other media leaders, such as CNET, Macworld, and the BBC, who see PicLens at the forefront of emerging technologies that transform the Web experience.

Have you voted yet? We just found out that PicLens, our ever-popular online 3D viewer, has been selected as a finalist in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards by the editors of CNET Webware.com. PicLens enthusiasts can cast their vote for PicLens by visiting the CNET Webware website.

Voting for this year’s awards will run until March 31. Winners will be announced on April 21, the day before the opening of Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, a CNET co-sponsored event.

This year, users of CNET Webware.com nominated over 5,000 eligible entries, from which the editors honed down to a shortlist of the top 300. “For the most part we think we found the most important webware products,” says Rafe Needleman, an editor for CNET, who helped pick PicLens as a finalist in the browsing category.

We want to give special thanks to our users worldwide and to CNET for so enthusiastically embracing PicLens. We know we could not have made it this far without your support!

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please take 10 seconds to vote!