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...
TinEye private investigator
John Arrington’s review of TinEye just landed in my inbox forwarded by a colleague and that would have been just an awesome read if I had not woken up this morning to TinEye being down! We are in the office, getting rolling on bringing it back, the team is being hawled out of bed as we speak (happy Sunday!). There is no rest for the wicked! This is the first down time we have experienced so...
TinEye and the data lady (a romantic search adventure)
Stéphane Lee pointed me yesterday to the Data Lady. This lady is going to be added to my Everywhere Girl fascination! The Data Lady is a stock photograph of a lady that is being used in a lot of data center websites, collocation websites, large database company websites and of course web hosting sites… you get the picture. Stephane used TinEye to find where else she is appearing and of...
Google experiments with crowdsourcing search (results)
Justin Hileman has a great little post about one Google’s latest experiment for search engine results page (SERP); this experiment allows users to influence their search experience by adding, moving and removing search results. Justin explains how it works and talks about his experiments here.
Yahoo’s BOSS
Last week Yahoo introduced BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) . BOSS is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. This could be interesting. I am curious to see what developers and other start-ups may use BOSS for and if any interesting web-scale search products will see the light using BOSS. I personally would like to utilize the entire Yahoo image search index :) I see BOSS as allowing...
The weird science of stock photography
This Slate article ended up in my feeds as it mentions my favourite stock photography girl (well lady now!): the Everywhere Girl. As most of you know (if you didn’t, now you do): I am fascinated by her travels in the online and print world. This reminds me that I need to use TinEye on a few of her images and see what I spot this time around. A couple of things caught my eye in Seth...
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.
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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...