Paul Sturgess

Cooliris and the 3D wall.

Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) is described by it’s developers as a “lightening fast ‘3D wall’ that lets you browse thousands of images, videos and more with ease.”

Cooliris is installed as a browser add-on for Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer and it works all over the web, including on google image searches, facebook, flickr, ffffound and numerous other websites.

Recently we implemented Cooliris into a stock image management system we’re building for a client.

They required an easy and quick way of viewing multiple images on the screen that supplemented the basic website view. Cooliris provided exactly that and wasn’t complicated to implement at all.

It essentially works by using an xml version of the page you are viewing. Cooliris can then automatically detect the feed via a simple rss link. That’s all there is to it!

 

Tags: search, 3d, xml, rss, google, facebook, flickr, ffffound, cooliris, image

Comments: 6

Jezz
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When you say 'implemented', did you install it on their browsers, or some other way? I have been using Cooliris for a while now, it's very good as a quick and stylish way to browse images and video.

Robin
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The client wanted a flashy way of displaying their images that their sales team could use on client visits. In this case we could obviously ensure that Cooliris was preinstalled. It’s simple enough to implement though that we added it for the whole site, so anyone with Cooliris will benefit. The site’s live now so feel free to have a look: "http://www.theheartfeltagency.com/":http://www.theheartfeltagency.com/

Jezz
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If you don't mind me asking, how do you make the site supported? Do you have to provide an xml of all the images?

Robin
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Yep, an XML detailing the images along with their metadata. You just link it in to the head of the page. Paul wrote more about it on his personal site: "Using Cooliris with Ruby on Rails":http://paulsturgess.co.uk/articles/show/78-using-cooliris-with-ruby-on-rails

Steve Hattrick
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I did instaaled it on my browser but yet no results!

Michel Bratos
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Install it on the browsers, or some other way?

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