ArchiveJuly 2008

Getting The Big Picture

If you’re not acquainted with “The Big Picture” from the Boston Globe, I highly recommend you stop by and say hello. Plan to stay a while, the images are stunning, the stories compelling.

Search Engines for Librarians (and the rest of us)

Laura Milligan’s list of 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About is a handy resource, and not just for librarians. Nicely organized into sub-groups such as Meta Search and Multi Search, Multimedia and Interactive, Great Niche Sites for Librarians, Custom/Reference searches and more, the post introduced me to many sites I’d never heard of. Scirus for scientific...

Snazzy New TinEye Widgets

With all the requests for new widgets, how could we say no? As we don’t have an easy way for our fans to create their own widgets using TinEye, we decided to do that for them. Today we are rolling out a shiny new set, six new ones to go along with Mona, Tux and George. We picked the most requested images from all our fans to create our latest “TinEye flow” widgets. Embeddable at...

Image tracking

And because we are in the business of tracking where images appear for our clients, this “shooting Britney” article from The Atlantic is a great read! The evolution of Hollywood paparazzi from a marginal nuisance to one of the most powerful and lucrative forces driving the American news-gathering industry is a phenomenon that dates back to March 2002, when a women’s magazine editor...

Conversations still matter

We have been doing a lot of that in the last little while to get feedback for some of products and services. When we launched TinEye we made sure that we were accessible and responsive to our users, fans and simply folks who had questions about it. That meant a lot of conversations, a lot emails and a lot of presentations. That’s worked out really well because we managed to distill...

TinEye Around the World

Thank goodness for translation software as TinEye has been traveling the world. So what’s the latest? I have only a vague (google translated) idea of what Robert Kneschke is saying here but I do know he’s a fan and that he writes lovely things about us in German. Vielen Dank Robert! Kaly from makeuseof.com also reviewed TinEye on their site. TinEye. Let the games begin is from our...

Meanwhile, somewhere in the East… a TinEye story

Scott Liddell scored a TinEye beta invitation yesterday and I have to say, he has some lovely finds. Using TinEye, Scott searched for his images in our index of over 700 million images and came up with some surprising results! Scott shares on his blog: And someone at HP seems to really like my fruit because it seems to be in quite a few places. So do Channel 4, in the guise of that odious jobbie...

Help me search

Alex at ReadWriteWeb has a great post about the future of computer applications where he explains that: Software is increasingly polarized into utilities and entertainment. Utilities help us work and are becoming more rigorous. We’re looking for helpful software that understands our context and guides us through the process, whether it is search or a complex business task. I believe that...