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Search - Monday, July 30, 2007

Cooliris Gains Respect For New Browsing Extensions

Menlo Park-based Cooliris has developed a new browsing application that we have started using and that we have to say makes us feel like we have a step up over others browsing. It sounds simple: previews of videos and other content from search pages, a new bookmarking tool, etc. But given how much time we and others spend searching on the net, any help we can get can save precious time.

With this product, Cooliris competes primarily with Snap and Sphere and lives with the ghost of the now defunct Browster.

CoolIris gets great reviews. Lifehacker: "Best. Extension. Ever? It might just be." ReadRightWeb is also favorable.

Coolris has a second photo product called Piclens that also requires a download and is specifcally for Apple OS and Safari. This application doesn't strike us as being particularly useful and is really for power mac geeks.

+ Create a Media RSS feed for your web site and in combination with Piclens you can deliver slide shows.
+ View photos in full screen with a single click
+ Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
+ Multi-page search on Google Images and Yahoo Images

CoolIris has further developed CoolRinger, an online creator of ringtones.

Cooliris has just secured $1M of a $3.05M Series A round from Kleiner Perkins says PEHub. Cooliris requires a download of its software then users can preview web sites and rich media before clicking.

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