Cooliris (Piclens)

As I have always shared with people, there are just so much information on the internet that any one person can use in many lifetime, the problem is, getting to the right stuff that you are looking for. Search engines are a huge help when it comes to making sense of information in the cloud. With the addition of tons of multimedia content, some search engines are being fine tuned to search for music, photos etc. And when you throw in social network tools such as wiki, facebook, flickr, etc; the amount of multimedia content just explodes. I really don't know where to start searching.

Luckily for me, developers like Cooliris is making picture searching across different social network sites (including the good old webpages) a breeze (and lots of fun). What's more important, the search results are presented in an intuitive visualisation that encourages discovery and exploration. Cooliris (formerly PicLens) is such a tool, and is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. The installation file has a small profile and it creates a small CoolIris icon in your Internet Explorer's toolbar. Click on this and it launches the Cooliris interface, type in your search criteria and off you go. Simple as that.