Cooliris: a different angle on online photo and video browsing

I have been using Cooliris for some weeks now and was considering this blog post for a while. I just found the perfect timing for that: I am sitting on a Starbucks in Palo Alto, across the street from their office.

Since FLYABYTE is all about cloud computing, I am at this moment using my Eee PC 901, edited the screenshot on Pixlr, and am writing this post on Squarespace. By the way, I´m listening to music from Pandora.

Getting back to Cooliris, it is a software that provides a totally new and breathtaking way of browsing photos and videos. There are two ways you can use it. The first, what they call the Discovery mode, allows you to start your navigation by chosing from different categories (such as news, sports, shopping, TV episodes, seaching Google Images, etc..). The second way allows you to start Cooliris from within different sites, such as YouTube or Facebook, so you can use it to browse related videos or photo albums.

Once you pick what you want to see, just fly around a fullscreen wall with images that can be easily zoomed in and out at your will. It´s that simple, yet very powerfull.

It is available for different platforms. I have it installed in all my computers (both in Firefox and Safari) and I also have the free iPhone app on my iPod Touch.

Learn more about Cooliris by watching this video, or click here to get the Firefox add-on.

P.S.: I can tell you their employees work hard to develop this wonderfull product. It is 9:15 PM now and there are 2 people still working on their office. ;-)

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