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Cooliris and the 3D wall.
Posted by Paul Sturgess on January 20, 2009
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!
Search Engine Paranoia
Posted by Paul Sturgess on November 19, 2008
Google alerts is a simple service that allows you to receive alerts on any Google search you want, whenever it is updated.
So when a new result is returned for your search, you’ll know about it without having to lift a finger.
Until just recently the alert was only available in the form of an email, fortunately however, Google have now syndicated the alerts into an rss feed.
The problem with the emails was that should you want to monitor a popular search term, with regular changes to the Google search listings, you’d be buried under an avalanche of emails.
The utilisation of RSS feeds is certainly a welcome change to Google alerts. Now we can all get back to monitoring Google for our favourite Search Engine Optimisation terms.