Cooliris (plugin)

{{Short description|Web browser extension}}

{{One source|date=May 2010}}

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| name = Cooliris

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| developer = Cooliris

| released = {{Start date and age|2008|01}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09stream.html?ex=1362718800&en=0c340cd774934c9f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink|title=Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine |work=The New York Times|date=March 9, 2008 |author=John Markoff}}

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| operating system = Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

| genre = Web Application framework

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| website = {{URL|www.cooliris.com}} As of January 2024 this domain name is for sale.

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Cooliris (for Desktop), formerly known as PicLens, was a web browser extension developed by Cooliris, Inc, and later acquired by Yahoo. The plugin provides an interactive 3D-like experience for viewing digital images and videos from the web and from desktop applications. The software places a small icon atop image thumbnails that appear on a webpage. Clicking on the icon loads the Cooliris 3D Wall, a browsing environment that gives the user the effect of flying through a three-dimensional space.{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/07/26/cooliris-repurposes-its-3d-wall-technology-for-social-photo-discovery|title=Cooliris Repurposes Its 3D Wall Technology For Social|work=Forbes |date=July 26, 2012 |author=Lim Yung-Hui}}

Released to the public in January 2008, The New York Times described Cooliris as the "new immersive approach to Web navigation". Cooliris went out to win the 2008 Crunchies Award for Best Design.[http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/ Crunchies 2008 Award Winners] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405075730/http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/ |date=April 5, 2013 }} The plugin has received over 50 million downloads.{{cite news |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/28/cooliris-updates-ios-app-sourcing-from-google-drive-picasa-flickr/|title=With 250m+ photos viewed, Cooliris updates iOS app, grabs pics from Google Drive, Flickr, others |publisher=TheNextWeb |date=November 28, 2012 |author=Ken Yeung}}

As of May 2014 browser plugins are unavailable from the official website. There are only links to tablet apps - for iOS and Android.