For this exciting launch, we’re partnering with KDDI, a major mobile carrier in Japan, to give their new and existing customers the opportunity to download LiveShare directly from the Home Screen on the newest KDDI phones.

We’re thrilled to extend our reach with new language support and make LiveShare more easily accessible to people around the world!

In addition, the new home view will enable you to view all your updates in one place, whether it’s a new comment on your photo, a new photo someone added to a stream you are following, or a new stream that you are invited to. What’s extra cool about this new activity feed is that you can like and comment on photos directly in line, without having to load the full image first.

You can still find all the streams that you created and are following by tapping your profile photo.

Together with the House of Blues and Never Shout Never, we are super stoked to bring you a photo contest as unique as the band itself. Imagine if you were to see the band on the street (we can dream right!), what would you holler to get their attention? It could be one of their song lyrics, or a message to one of the band members, or maybe just something that you love. Whatever it is, get creative and crazy and jot down what you would shout to the band. Upload a photo of yourself with this Shout! message to the “Never Shout Never” stream on the mobile app, directly on the band’s Facebook page or on LiveShare.com.

Then share out your photo to Facebook, Twitter or e-mail to get all your friends to like your pic. The person who uploads the photo with the most “likes” will win an exclusive Q/A session with the band along with some super cool band merchandise.

So turn on some jams from their new album – “Time Travel” for inspiration and get ready to Shout! out loud your message to the band!

The new update now has a live news feed. You can now see updates from your friends, new streams you are invited to, and comments/likes on your photos from one live feed. You can also comment and like photos in-line without leaving your feed. This enables you to stay even more connected with your friends and never miss a thing!

We’ve also added more robust geo-location features. This means that you can now explore public groups created in your vicinity by going to liveshare.com on your mobile phone (location has to be enabled on Safari). What’s super awesome about this is that you can share with people in the same context as you, without having to be their Facebook friend or in each other’s contact lists.

Try using these public groups for your next conference, party, or the next wedding you go to, where you might not know everyone who is there, but still want to be able to see everyone’s shared content in the stream. To create a public group, simply create a group on liveshare.com on your desktop browser, and select “public”. This is also possible on Android phones already, and we will be bringing this feature to iPhone soon.

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Here are three awesome new features in version 1.2.7:

Create public streams (Android and Web only, iPhone coming soon!)
In addition to creating private groups with your friends, you can now also create public streams that anyone can participate in. To create a public stream, just check the “Make this stream Public” box. You can share your public stream out to Facebook, Twitter, or just email them the link, so you no longer have to invite every friend separately and you can publish any content to the world!

Find public streams around you
Now, you can visit liveshare.com on the browser on your mobile phone to explore public groups created in your vicinity and launch into the app experience to join and participate in them. Try using this at large events like weddings, parties, or conferences, where you might not be friends with all the attendees, but still want to be able to see everyone’s photos in one place!

By bridging this gap between native and web experience, we’re making LiveShare more accessible to everyone – even those without the app on their phones, making LiveShare the easiest way to collect shared experiences anywhere with anyone.

Notification feed (Android only, iPhone coming soon!)
Lastly, we’ve added a drop-down notifications feed so that you can keep track of what’s new in your LiveShare circles!

We hope you enjoy this upgrade for Android, iPhone, and web! As always, let us know what you think in the comments below or email us.

Today, we are launching AdJitsu, a brand new standalone business unit dedicated to our Immersive 3D Ads! We are seeing unprecedented growth in the Immersive 3D Ads so we decided to assign dedicated focus to scale quickly in this hyper-growing market and fulfill the demand from big brands for their premium ad campaigns during fall, holiday season and beyond.

In addition, we’re also announcing a new partnership with Amobee, one of the largest mobile advertising exchanges, and are excited to team up with them to bring the Immersive 3D Ad experience to the largest advertisers and customers worldwide.

Last month, we saw really awesome performance of the Samsung’s Galaxy SII smartphone campaign on iPad, which you can see in the video below. In the coming months, we expect to keep pushing the bar higher in mobile display advertising, so keep an eye on us!

This toolkit is used in various Cooliris products for iOS, including Discover or Decks, and allows developers of iOS applications to speed up development time.

What makes it different from various open-source toolkits is that each feature is designed to have minimal dependency on other ones. Each feature is also designed to be implemented with a single .h/.m source code files pair. The combination of these two design goals makes it quite easy to re-use only what you need from this project without clustering your application with many additional obscure source files.

For a detailed description of the Cooliris ToolKit for iOS, along with an overview of its benefits, or to retrieve the source code, go to http://code.google.com/p/cooliris-toolkit/.

Cooliris ToolKit is copyright 2011 Cooliris, Inc. and available under Apache 2.0 license. See the included LICENSE file in the project for more information. Note that Cooliris ToolKit includes other open-source projects and such projects remain under their own license.

For a third-party application that makes extensive use of the Cooliris ToolKit for iOS, check out the ComicFlow comic reader for iPad, also available as its open-source code.

We had a wide variety of submissions and our winner received over 30 “likes”. We reached out to her for the contest; but unfortunately we didn’t hear back. Some would have taken this opportunity to spare Brian and JP – but we’re not one of them! We put our minds together and came up with an obstacle course that would test their valor. The race was intense and went back and forth; each side would dominate a task only to lose the advantage in the very next one. As we cheered them on and waited to see who would emerge champion, we documented the race in an “Intern Face-Off!” LiveShare stream to make sure we would preserve these memories for posterity.

And finally the challenge ended the only way it could – in a tie! We’re very proud of the accomplishments of Brian and JP. Oh and did we mention that we also have a video of the entire race, that we will be playing on repeat for them? Enjoy

MediaCorp has a LiveShare gallery on their website so that everyone can follow the National Day Parade (NDP) all day long. Those at the event can download LiveShare and open the “NDP 2011” stream to take and view live pictures from the event and ensure that no angle from the day goes uncovered.

Since not everyone can be at the Floating Stadium to watch the event in person, Young NTUC has organized an extravagant fringe event for over 15,000 people at the Padang so they can watch all the LiveShare photos from NDP coming in on the big screen. This year’s theme for the NDP is the “Spirit of Singapore.” This very essence of the spirit and pride of the people in this beautiful country is captured through these LiveShare pictures.

From the 5 Act Musical to the show-stopping aerial flypasts to the Red Lions display and gun salute, you can keep up with every unforgettable moment on the MediaCorp, Young NTUC and the xinmsn website as well as the LiveShare app and on LiveShare.com. So today on Singapore’s NDP, you can feel like you’re witnessing history right from the front row of The Float @ Marina Bay!

And for all you An Horse fans who can’t make it to the show, fear not – you can still enjoy all the photos from the concert on the An Horse Facebook Page. You can then share out the stream on Facebook, Twitter and e-mail to show everyone the awesomeness of An Horse!

We’re going to create a “Summer of 2011″ featured stream that will be available on the app and web. Here’s all you have to do -  take snaps of all your favorite summer moments – beaches, road-trips, travels, parties, BBQs, visits to the ice cream truck etc. Add your own distinct personality to these photos and capture what the summer means to you in your unique way. By August 4th, the picture with the most “likes” will win an exciting prize.

And here’s where it gets really good! We have decided that the winner should be rewarded with something priceless. And to show you just how much we mean that we have decided to sacrifice two of our summer interns – Brian and JP, seen below in this very candid shot!

The person who uploads the winning picture will get to decide what funny activity we want them to do (within reason of course!). For some added inspiration, here’s a similar contest we ran in the past. So whip out your smartphones and start clicking!

Cheyenne Frontier Days started on the 22nd of July and runs till the 31st of the month in Wyoming and honors the spirit of cowboys. World class riders convene at the event each day for the rodeo along with a troupe of over 2,800 volunteers. From the actual rodeo competition to tours of Indian Village to art shows and museums and to a vibrant nightlife – there is something for everyone! The entertainment includes concerts by Toby Keith, Kid Rock, Shreyl Crow and many more of the biggest names in country music. All in attendance can capture the priceless memories of the eleven days by downloading the LiveShare app and taking pictures into the “Bank of the West Cheyenne Frontier Days’ stream. These photos can then be shared out on facebook and twitter. For everyone who can’t make it or for those who want to relive the event you can still enjoy all the moments from Frontier Days on the app, the web on LiveShare, as well as the Bank of the West’s Facebook Page.

While Frontier Days is in effect, the women’s tennis world is fixated on Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, CA. Some of the most talented and recognizable names in women’s tennis start off the U.S Open Series at the Bank of West Classic Tournament. The star-studded field includes Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, defending champion Victoria Azarenka and many more. This year, Bank of West and LiveShare is letting you be a part of this tournament. At each match, everyone in the arena can download the LiveShare app and take fan pics into the “Bank of the West Classic Tournament” stream. Some of these photos could even appear on the big screen during the matches! So make those crazy signs, carry your favorite players’ national flag and snap a bunch of fan pics into the stream and preserve history.

Once more, for those who aren’t able to be there in person, all photos will be available on the app, the LiveShare stream on the web and the Bank of the West Facebook Page.

So for the next eleven days, whether you’re in Wyoming or Palo Alto or anywhere else, with LiveShare and Bank of the West you can partake in these two extraordinary events – a quintessentially American Western experience and the best of women’s sports.

To begin, create a LiveShare account. After signing in, you can start to create an event. Enter all pertinent information – title, duration and location of event. The address you enter is the region where the event will show up on the mobile app, making it easier for a large number of people to add photos. For instance, say you’re a big Neil Patrick Harris fan (who isn’t?) and you have a fan page devoted to following his every move, you can now create a “Neil Patrick Harris” stream.

You will also have full control on all content that will be visible on your web page. By modifying the moderation settings, you can determine which photos will appear in the gallery. There will be an option to delete any photo or comments.

Once these steps are done, you can begin to customize your gallery by choosing a background best suited for your brand. You will then receive an embed code that you simply copy and paste onto your site.

The LiveShare embed wall gallery contains rich content and an eye-catching 3-D display wall. Photos can be taken on your mobile device into the stream from the app or uploaded directly in the gallery and can then be enjoyed in real-time on both the app and the web.

Finally the entire gallery can also be shared out via Twitter, Facebook and email – merging your mobile, web, and social networks all in one, increasing the engagement and visibility with fans and users. So whether you are a large brand or a celebrity, have a band page, blog, a fan site, run a non-profit, news organizations, or sports team – LiveShare for Partners is perfect for you! Keep in mind that this is our first version of LiveShare for Partners. We intend to continuously and constantly improve. We are always looking for feedback as well, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to leave them in the “comments” section or e-mail us at feedback@cooliris.com

This year you can follow them around the country with LiveShare. Both the constituents and party members will be taking pictures of the tour and recording them in the “Deutschlandtour 2011 – FDP – Bundestagsfraktion” stream. There will be exclusive backstage photos throughout the entire tour.

All the pictures will be visible on the app, LiveShare.com, the FDP website, and their Facebook page. By the end of the tour the photo with the most “likes” will be eligible to win a prize. So make sure to follow the FDP tour till August 13th and quite literally watch politics in action.

Together with Windows Phone UK we are making this summer extra special for all our UK users out there: bringing you exciting chances to win! All you have to do is capture all your super fun moments from the summer in our “Share your Great British Summer with Windows Phone” stream. Take pictures of your summer – awesome beach hangouts, epic road trips or beautiful sunsets and share them in the stream on the app, the web on LiveShare, or the Windows Phone UK Facebook Page. As part of the competition, the three people who upload the pictures with the most “likes” by July 30th could win a Windows Phone!

Competition ends on July 30th. So take out your phones and take a lot of photos of your summer and share them out on twitter, facebook and get all your friends to “like” them for this great competition. Make the summer of 2011 unforgettable!