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...
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...
What group is that on your t-shirt? TinEye knows!
What folks at the ideeplex do on their lunch break. TinEye their t-shirts. Yes, we are geeks.
What band is this? Check out the search result below. TinEy returned 12 hits, but we only need this one here.
Click on the image, there’s all the information about the band! Snazzy.
Have a neat t-shirt search? Let us know!
Need a TinEye account? Grab one here.
Lawrence Lessig talks about Creative Commons and Copyright
Jim Goldstein interviews Law Professor Lawrence Lessig for his podcast EXIF and Beyond. In Goldstein’s podcast Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, discusses the purpose and objective of Creative Commons, his perspective on copyright law and addresses the question “How if at all the adoption of Creative Commons is hurting photographers”. He also shares more information about the...
Bigger index, more cool searches!
A bigger index means more amazing image searches with even more matches in TinEye! I don’t know what strikes folks to edit a particular image more than others, but there are some fantastically popular ones out there that you all love to photoshop. We’ve shown you everything from Mona Lisa to Angela Jolie in other posts, so let’s take a look at the guys that you’ve cropped...
TinEye to the Rescue
We have the most creative fans! Eric sent us an email and this snazzy screencast to tell us his story about how he used TinEye.
Check it out!
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...