From Rene Wanner: In 1989, Shepard Fairey (b. 1970) began to paste stickers all over town with a face and the mysterious message “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” or “Obey Giant” . Since then, his palette, geographic range and activities have increased enormously, and when he offered to support Barack Obama’s campaign with some posters in January 2008, he readily got...
TinEye Mobile
TinEye Mobile is now available for download on the iphone App store! We submitted TinEye Mobile to Apple a few days after our beta testing (thanks folks for helping us beta test) and got our application approval late last week. We have been so busy that we almost forgot to tell you all!
TinEye still down
TinEye fans, we were hoping to get TinEye back online this evening but TinEye is fighting us. Our index upgrade has been completed but we are now battling servers and there is a lot of them and only a few of us. We will get things back online and appreciate your patience.
TinEye: down and up!
TinEye is down for a bit of maintenance. TinEye is getting a 1 billion image index and he will be back shortly after his oil change. Stay tuned. We expect to bring him back online this evening. In the meantime if you have never visited the Idée labs, this is your chance to play with in the multicolr lab where you can search 10 million creative commons images by multicolour. Stay tuned!
Vive la différence!
I never thought that I would see TinEye and Jacques Derrida mentioned in the same sentence. This is awesome! I still remember late night conversations about Derrida’s work… his books are still on my bookshelves but I have to admit that I have not pulled them out in years! Nonetheless Alejandro in Amsterdam has a little write up about TinEye and how TinEye is really an image search...
TinEye: a photographer’s best friend
In Visual search engine is photographer’s best friend PC Pro’s Stuart Turton takes a peek at TinEye and some applications of our image identification technology. Turton also notes: TinEye could provide an entirely new way for image companies and amateur photographers to track how and where their images are being used, without the need for digital watermarks. Yes, TinEye can. TinEye...
See what the world is searching for
Inside Google Insights for Search: some awesome data on search term traffic. If you have not dropped by: don’t during working hours, you will have a hard time prying yourself from your screen. Here is a an example chart for cloud computing:
Interest over time:
By region:
On the subject of search: the Petabyte Age
From Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired: Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition...
Celebrity photograph record: $14 million
Publication rights to photographs of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s newborn twins sold to People and Hello! magazines for the reported sum of $14 million.
Automatic face replacement? Check!
I had not seen this paper about automatic face replacement to deal with privacy issues for example. […] we present a complete system for automatic face replacement in images. Our system uses a large library of face images created automatically by downloading images from the internet, extracting faces using face detection software, and aligning each extracted face to a common coordinate...