Cooliris
I have seen Cooliris before, but I have never gotten around to poking around it myself. It's a pretty cool concept really and I thought I'd take a moment to give a very brief overview.
Cooliris is a plugin for either Safari or Firefox which allows you to view the web visually. The plugin transforms your browser into a full-screen wall of images which are pulled from websites in a couple of different ways. Either you can search for a topic or keyword, or you can choose a news category to see images associated with news stories from the web. You can zoom in and out as well as scroll along the 3D wall of images, clicking on those you find interesting to view larger versions.
You can also view the webpage they are associated with or email the image to a friend, though the latter requires that you sign up with Cooliris' free service.
All in all it's pretty cool, and while I don't want to go much deeper I will say that it's super fast and you should check it out if you haven't already. The team have also just released an iPhone app for free also and allow you to build it into your own website. Some very interesting things could be taken from this but to really understand how simple and effective it is you need to experience it for yourself. Get started by visiting www.cooliris.com.
Cooliris is a plugin for either Safari or Firefox which allows you to view the web visually. The plugin transforms your browser into a full-screen wall of images which are pulled from websites in a couple of different ways. Either you can search for a topic or keyword, or you can choose a news category to see images associated with news stories from the web. You can zoom in and out as well as scroll along the 3D wall of images, clicking on those you find interesting to view larger versions.
You can also view the webpage they are associated with or email the image to a friend, though the latter requires that you sign up with Cooliris' free service.
All in all it's pretty cool, and while I don't want to go much deeper I will say that it's super fast and you should check it out if you haven't already. The team have also just released an iPhone app for free also and allow you to build it into your own website. Some very interesting things could be taken from this but to really understand how simple and effective it is you need to experience it for yourself. Get started by visiting www.cooliris.com.