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!

We all benefit from the work of the open-source community in the software world. Cooliris is no exception. Today, we would like to give back, and are glad to announce that we recently released our internal Cooliris ToolKit for iOS as open-source.

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.

On Friday, the parking lot at the Cooliris office transformed to a battlefield where two interns, nay men, went head to head in a test to see who would be the last one standing. Chugging a gallon of milk, sitting on water balloons, downing a dozen marshmallows – all part of our epic conclusion to the summer photo contest. The contest started the week before when we created a “Summer of 2011” stream and asked our users to upload pictures from their summer into the stream. The person who uploaded the picture with the most “likes” for the duration of that week would get to decide what ridiculous task to assign our two summer interns – Brian and JP. All week they waited with bated breath to see what was in store for them and their emotions switched from fear, to nervousness to excitement. [Stay tuned for a video at bottom]

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

Today marks the 46th anniversary of Singapore’s independence from Malaysia. Each year this revered day is celebrated in spectacular fashion; with live performances, a parade, an incredible fireworks display and much more. This August 9th we are incredibly excited to be working with MediaCorp and Young NTUC to make this special event even more accessible to the people of Singapore and everyone else worldwide.

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!

We are super excited to be working with Mom + Pop Music to bring you closer to the unique musical stylings of the indie band, An Horse. The duo of Kate Cooper and Damon Cox are currently on tour and can be seen this upcoming weekend at Lollapalooza. So while you’re at the concert, download the LiveShare app on your smartphone and take photos into the “An Horse Lollapalooza” featured stream and watch as all the fan pics upload live into the app. To make this experience even more memorable, the band is running a photo contest with LiveShare. Keeping with the theme of their single title, “Dressed Sharply,” all fans are invited to dress to impress and take their photos into the LiveShare stream. Damon and Kate will then pick their favorite photos from both their live performance at the festival as well as a “dressed sharply” photo. Winners will receive an exclusive autographed copy of their CD and other exciting autographed gear.

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!