7 posts and columns on Cooliris

Cooliris Cleverly Makes Photo Sharing Instantaneous (Video)

in News on July 26, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT

Cooliris, which for the last five years has built all sorts of neat online and mobile media tools, has lately been working on some rather nifty technology to make photo-sharing much more instantaneous.
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Cooliris Raises $9.6M, Gets Social With Mobile Photo-Sharing App

in Social on February 14, 2011 at 2:00 am PT

Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that’s about sharing photos rather than browsing.

KPCB Doubles Down on iFund: $200 Million for iPhone and iPad Apps

in Mobile on March 31, 2010 at 10:42 am PT

Add Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to the list of companies funding iPad app development. This morning the storied venture capital firm said it is doubling the $100 million fund it established to provide seed capital for iPhone apps to fuel development of new apps for Apple’s iPad.

Yahoo Demos Cool Etch-a-Sketch Mobile Search App and New Search Dude Shashi

in News on February 10, 2010 at 10:30 am PT

BoomTown will be hoofing it elsewhere today, so I am missing Yahoo’s search event at its Sunnyvale campus this morning. Thankfully, I was at the Silicon Valley Internet giant earlier this week, getting a grilling from CEO Carol Bartz, and was able to talk to both Prabhakar Raghavan, SVP of Yahoo Labs and Search Strategy, and new hire Shashi Seth, the company’s SVP of Search Products. Both talked about what the items on today’s agenda–a six-months’ look back at Yahoo search innovations, its upcoming Olympics shortcut on the search page and a new mobile search app that uses a kind of Etch-A-Sketch drawing technology–using fingers, not keywords–to help users find stuff.

AOL’s Google Reunion Grows Yet Again: Former YouTube Ad Guy Shashi Seth Joins Up

in Media on September 29, 2009 at 9:29 am PT

Of course, Time Warner’s AOL has hired yet another Google veteran. That’s what the company does under the Tim Armstrong regime. Today’s example: Shashi Seth, the one-time “monetization” boss at YouTube, who was most recently running sales at Cooliris. His new job: Senior vice president of global advertising products, reporting to Armstrong’s lieutenant (and Google vet, natch) Jeff Levick.
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Cooliris Nabs $15.5 Million in Funding, as It Upgrades Its 3-D Wall

in News on April 12, 2009 at 9:01 pm PT

Internet navigation browser plug-in maker Cooliris, which lets users “see” the Web in a more visual manner, has gotten $15.5 million in additional funding from its investors. The new round includes Kleiner Perkins, DAG Ventures, the Westly Group and T-Mobile’s T-Ventures, bringing its total funding to $18.5 million. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up is also releasing out of beta the latest upgrade to its 3-D “Wall” software, which displays more online content and information from around the Web, including from social-networking services like Facebook, shopping sites and from a user’s own hard drive.
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