We’re very excited to announce that we have submitted our first iPad app, Discover, to the iTunes App Store! Discover for iPad is the most elegant and effortless way to explore, search, and enjoy information from Wikipedia in a beautiful magazine-style interface.

Creating innovative, better ways to navigate content is our specialty, and this is no exception. With Discover for iPad, we’re making our first foray into information and textual navigation, using stunning graphics, an intuitive user interface, and seamless page-by-page navigation. Check out this demo:

Discover for iPad has been submitted to the iTunes App Store, but is not yet available to the public. To get notified when the app is available, please sign up here.

Cool news of the day: Facebook is using the Cooliris Wall on their community page to say thanks to their 500 million active users (WOW)!!

We love the enthusiasm and diversity of the Facebook team pictures in their Wall. Congratulations Facebook!

Some users have expressed that they want to be able to take a YouTube playlist and embed it in a Cooliris wall, instead of using an entire channel.  While we are working on a way to do this from the Cooliris Express website in the future, there is a way that you can do it now. Here’s how:

Start out by going to the Cooliris Express Builder. Select your content source as YouTube, and choose your video source to be “From a user”.  Enter the username of the user who created the playlist.

After customizing the wall to your taste, move on to the Publish tab.  You will need to copy the embed code so that we can change it a little bit.

The embed code should look something like what we have below.  We will be changing the highlighted portion of the code so that we only get the desired playlist.

Now, navigate to the YouTube playlist that you want to embed.  You will need to take the file-path identifier at the end of the URL and place it where the XXXXX is in the following link:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/XXXXX

Copy the new URL and place it into the two highlighted regions of the embed code. This will replace the previously highlighted sections of code.

Voila! Now you should have an embed wall with a playlist in it!

Thanks to Tedy Necula for helping us find this.  You can find his blog at http://tedynecula.filmmaking.ro/.

Wherever you are this summer—enjoying cocktails by the beach or working long hours at the office—Cooliris will keep you energized with our new Summer Music Channel!

Do Usher’s moonwalk-like moves in OMG make your feet want to start dancing? Feel like swinging your hips to Shakira’s spicy new tune Gypsy? Or are you in the mood for some good old Tom Jones?

From brand-new summer gems by Katy Perry and Enrique Iglesias to the all-time favorite classics Summer Nights from Grease and Will Smith’s Summertime – we’ve got it all covered. Cooliris Team has put together a list of the hottest summer 2010 music releases, and we plan on updating the channel with the most recent music videos throughout the summer. Rest assured: Summer with Cooliris will bring you the freshest hits upon their release!

We invite you to join our music fun and keep sending us ideas for your favorite summer music videos! Let’s get it started!

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!