ArchiveJuly 2008

Frans Lanting at the Microsoft Photo Summit

Lanting’s Life Project entitled A Journey Through Time is a mammoth undertaking, a multimedia story of epic proportions. Lanting, quite possibly the greatest nature photographer of his time, traveled every part of the planet and made hundreds of images telling the story of life on earth from the very beginning. In his words, “Nature’s my muse and it’s been my...

Petabytes…

You can’t have my latest copy of Wired but if you forgot how great Wired Magazine could be, check out issue 16.07. The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn’t Just More – More Is Different with a series of awesome articles about what happens when you start analyzing massive amounts of data or visualizing it.

Beauty is in the TinEye of the beholder! (wink to startupmeme)

Imran Hussain from Startupmeme has a great little post about TinEye this morning, as well as a nice set of search results, well of course: the search results are nice, they are from our cool search! Now that Imran’s beta invitation was approved I am sure we will see a lot more TinEye play! What I liked about Imran’s post is Alistair’s TinEye robot; he is developing quite a...

TinEye is growing…

TinEye is now searching 586,000,000 images. Yes, that’s 586 million images in real-time. We have added a 100 million images to our index and there is more to come very very soon. Happy searching!
(Photography by Charlie Ambler)

The future of search is already here

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore is organizing the first-of-its kind global competition to foster the development of the world’s next-generation multimedia search technology. This is a great way to kick start and cross pollinate some of the research happening in the world of multimedia searching. But what I found fascinating is what the agency had to say about...

Little changes, big effects! TinEye tweaks and new features.

We’ve added a few new features and tweaked our TinEye interface to make searching even easier. I know you are sending us a lot of feature requests and we have some great new things coming down the pipe – we are on it folks! But in the mean time here is the latest and greatest: The feedback link no longer overlaps with the search button on smaller screens. We want your feedback so we...