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Did some playing around with Cooliris after seeing it in action on EndUserSharePoint.com. Trying to get it working with SharePoint took a little playing around but I eventually got it working by using PicLens Publisher on their site.

After installing this and running it on a set of photos, I uploaded the output content from this into a new document library on my SharePoint site.

I then inserted a Content Editor web part onto a .aspx page and edited the source code (highlighted in red below) to point to the .rss file in the document library.

<object id=”o” classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ width=”600″ height=”370″> <param name=”movie” value=”http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf” /> <param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /> <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /> <param name=”flashvars” value=”feed=http://cooliris.com/static/images/feeds/home/media.rss” /> <embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf” flashvars=”feed=http://cooliris.com/static/images/feeds/home/media.rss” width=”600″ height=”370″ allowFullScreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always”> </embed> </object>

I finished off by creating a crossdomain.xml file, then inserted this into the root of the site via SharePoint designer. I then refreshed the page and the document library content was displayed.

Very nice, although as a lot of my users access SharePoint remotely (via Citrix Currently Presentation server 4.0) I won’t be putting it into action soon. Let’s hope it works better with XenApp 5.0!