- TinEye is looking for an awesome System Administrator!
So have you got what it takes to be part of the amazing tiny TinEye team? We work on big image search projects. We beat the search giant(s) with our little reverse image search engine! Join us if hardware is your hard core passion, system administration your dream job and working with a tiny dedicated team your cup of tea. We work (super) hard and play hard. We are INSANE about image search.
So Who Are You?
You are an experienced system administrator. You are used to working with Linux compute clusters, servers and databases. You thrive in a startup environment and enjoy being part of a fast paced problem solving oriented team. You analyze problems carefully and have solid testing practices. You are not afraid of fire fighting, and know how to use a firehose!
Your Perl, Python and shell scripting skills are solid. You are a hardware fanatic and have a strong sense of ownership.
In this role you must be able to handle remote troubleshooting and be on-call.
You will:
- Support our development team and our image search products particularly TinEye
- Be involved in every facet of our cluster management including onsite machines and co-located servers in downtown Toronto
- Manage server selections, purchasing and roll out
- Work primarily with Linux and also some Windows system administration, configuration, troubleshooting and building systems from components.
- Fine tune systems, installation and upgrades of server OS and workstations (Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian and Windows)
- Manage all networking requirements and router configuration
What you will need to have:
- BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience (a degree is not a requirement)
- Experience with Linux systems administration
- Sharp analytical abilities
- Sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- Troubleshooting experience
- Desire to learn new technical skills as required
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Demonstrated fanatical passion for your work
- Experience with cluster management/monitoring systems (Nagios/Cacti/Ganglia)
How to Apply to be Considered
If you are interested in applying for the above position and working with us, please send your resume, a cover letter highlighting relevant experience and past projects to hi (at) tineye.com Whenever possible, please include links to past work or examples.
[Photograph: Google First Production Server by Steve Jurvetson]
- When a tech giant decides to eat your lunch!
So Google launched its search by image feature. And just like that a tech giant decides to eat our lunch! Exciting times.
TinEye pioneered the world of search by images. Before Google. And we will continue doing exactly that. With focus. And you know what’s even more awesome? Every single day we show up to work, we are working on something that we are insanely passionate and committed to and that’s image search. Every single day. Including weekends. And vacations. Yes we are a tiny team, yes we don’t have the $$ that Google has at its disposition. But pause for a second here and think about the following: we accomplished what many deemed the impossible: large scale reverse image search with a tiny TinEye team. Tiny.
And this is where I am going to paraphrase Mark Suster: Focus wins.
So, don’t be writing TinEye’s obituary yet. And by the way: “if there are no big boys [in your market] – you’re probably in the wrong market”.
So go build something awesome and stop worrying about TinEye.
And to our fans: NOTHING is possible without your support, your emails, your kudos and your love. We heart you. And we will not let you down.
[Photograph: (c) Paul Downey]
- TinEye is magic!
Yes, magic. That’s what is powering TinEye. Caffeine and fans are powering our little team to accomplish insanely great things in search. Oh yeah! and that’s all I am going to say. But it is nice to see TinEye trending and making it to Numero Uno on Reddit. We love Reddit you know. oh I am so framing this thread!
In case you wanted to help us: we love coffee, and postcards from the world over. Mail to 223 Queen Street East. Toronto. Canada M5A1S2. Have a great weekend TinEye fans!
- TinEye Android
TinEye fans: we released an update to our TinEye Android App. We first want to thank you all for the great feedback you have been sending our way. Much appreciated since we don’t have access to all the potential handsets to possibly test on. So we have heard that our app works on the following devices if you have one of these, give it a try and let us know:
- HTC Desire HD 2.2.1
- HTC Desire 2.2
- HTC Nexus One 2.2-2.3.4
- HTC Evo v2.1-update and 2.2
- LG GT540 CyanogenMod7
- Milestone CyanogenMod7 2.3.3
- Motorola Droid 2.3.3
This latest 1.1 version includes a bug fix where the photo taken with a phone camera was uploaded to TinEye in landscape mode instead of portrait mode in some phones.
As always we would love to hear from you! Say hi!
[Photograph by Paul Downey]
- Tiny TinEye update
Hey TinEye fans, we have been extremely busy wrapping up our image alerts release – which you shall be seeing soon – and re architecting so our image index update is tiny this time around: 4.7 million images to bring up our index to 1,958,654,947. Happy searching and enjoy your summer! The snow has melted in Toronto and Zazie, our TinEye HQ dog is looking forward to enjoying her popsicles again.
- TinEye is heading to Calgary!
Our next hacking event as part of HackDays is happening in Calgary. We just wrapped up our Waterloo Hackathon and are looking forward to meeting Calgary developers in June. If you are not familiar with our hackathons: we organize monthly hacking events that bring together the brightest developers across Canada. We work together in a day, in a space to hack and create awesome applications using local APIs. HackDays selects local APIs, make them available to participating developers with expert guidance from the API providers and an environment where you are going to be excited about hacking and creating! The hack day is also a competition: as a developer you will compete for great prizes and glory! And this is all done in a day! So if this is up your alley, join us in Calgary:
Date: Saturday June 4th, 2011 in Calgary!
Time: 9 AM to 6 PM
Registration: All developers are welcome to register. Registration fee is $10.00. Your registration includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks + the chance to meet other awesome developers and companies.
APIs: If you know of a local company with a fantastic API you would like to work with, please let them know about HackCGY drop us an email would love to hear from you.
Sponsors: HackCGY is brought to you by our incredible sponsors including: Freshbooks, iStockPhoto, TinEye and YellowPages. We are of course still looking for additional sponsors to make HackCGY the best it can be, so please drop us an email if you are interested in being a sponsor.
We have held HackDays in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Waterloo but if this is your first time attending our hack events, here is what to expect and how to prepare. We are looking forward to welcoming you all in Calgary.
- Mon Dieu St Hubert!
The folks at Trip Advisor Guide probably thought that no one would notice the resemblance but the sharp eyes of Jason Kealey and TinEye were no match for photoshop skills.
- The Threadless Photo Department: Sean Dorgan
Our great friends over at Photoshelter released a little video about their visit to the Threadless Photo Department in Chicago. Threadless is a community-based t-shirt design company in Chicago. I am sure you are familiar with their awesome geek t-shirt designs. Listen as Grover from Photoshelter interviews Sean Dorgan a self-taught photographer who has been the Threadless in house photographer for 3 years now.
Inside the Threadless Photo Department from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.
- TinEye Android Beta!
I am sure that if you are like us, you have been dreaming of a TinEye android application for quite some time now. Our beta release today won’t really help you unless – like us – you are a Nexus One user! If you are, well, rejoice: the TinEye Android Beta is here. It is a rough beta as we are just getting it out to do some testing. It is not ready for prime time. It may or may not work. It may or may not crash your phone. But when it works, well… it is magic. We actually just built it for ourselves but we don’t mind sharing.
Have you ever run across a photograph in a magazine, on a poster or on those giant advertising billboards at the airport and wondered where it came from? or who shot it? Now you can simply whip out your Nexus One, snap a photo and get your TinEye results (if we have them!).
So what you need to know:
TinEye Android Beta searches the current TinEye index when you perform a search. There are a number of things you should be aware of:
- Do not install it if you are using a Samsung Galaxy S! It will hard crash your device and you will need to remove your battery to restart it.
- It does not work well with rotated images. You need to take your photograph in portrait mode and avoid rotations/skewed shots.
- It only works with Android v2.1 and later. And has only been tested on the HTC Nexus One running Android v2.3.3 and the HTC Evo running Android v2.1-update1 and v2.2.
How to install the TinEye Android Beta:
- On your phone go to Settings > Applications.
- Enable “Unknown Sources” This is required because during the beta, the app is not being installed from the Android Market Place.
- Install TinEye for Android
- Go to the browser downloads, either from the Android pull down menu or by going to the phone browser menu > more > downloads, and click on TinEye.apk to install the app
- After the app is installed, be sure to disable Unknown Sources.
We would appreciate your feedback so that we can work on the next release. So please let us know of any bugs or drop us a line to send us some hugs! We are already working on a number of improvements including:
- Options to use the camera zoom and flash
- The option to upload an image from your phone image gallery
- The option to log into your TinEye account from the app
- Using the camera in landscape mode.
To uninstall the app:
- Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > TinEye
- Choose Force Stop if the button is enabled
- Choose Uninstall
Enjoy!
UPDATE: MAY 31/2011. Thanks TinEye fans for your testing and feedback. Much appreciated. We now have a new release Version 1.1 which includes a bug fix where the photo taken with a phone camera was uploaded to TinEye in landscape mode instead of portrait mode in some phones. This release also works on the following devices:
- HTC Desire HD 2.2.1
- HTC Desire 2.2
- HTC Nexus One 2.2-2.3.4
- HTC Evo v2.1-update and 2.2
- LG GT540 CyanogenMod7
- Milestone CyanogenMod7 2.3.3
- Motorola Droid 2.3.3
As always we would love to hear from you! Say hi!
- CP24 NEWS Y U NO CHECK PHOTO SOURCE!
Hat tip to our TinEye fan @adamgoucher for this little gem:
The little article he is referring to is the article that CP24 News in Toronto released this morning about thunderstorms and hail warning for our city: Toronto. Turns out the “lightning seen in this file photo” is well, lightning allright but not anywhere close to Toronto, not even Canada! ooops! That photo title should read “Night thunderstorm in Kiev” from stock.xchng. TinEye strikes again?
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