We are excited to officially launch our TinEye Commercial API. Since we launched TinEye, your most requested feature has been an API. For the non developer community: an API is an ‘application programming interface‘. It is a tool that allows you to access and interface with an existing web-based service, and enables you to develop programs that interact with this service. Our API...
Operation Komando!
Thanks TinEye fans for making us a Kim Komando cool website of the day! May be you are not familiar with Kim Komando? She is a digital goddess! Seriously: Kim’s weekly three-hour call-in talk radio show is heard (via her own national radio network called WestStar) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a Digital Minute radio feature five days a week; has written ten books about...
The truth and nothing but the truth: Shepard Fairey lies.
Via Techcrunch: Striking at the heart of his fair use case against the AP, Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and Progress posters. Mr. Fairey has also now admitted to the AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in an effort to bolster his fair use case and cover up...
TinEye Firefox Extension = Awesomesauce
We thought enabling you to search for an image using an images was the apogée of search. The nec plus ultra, the ultimate … well you get my drift. Using TinEye you still had to upload an image or feed TinEye a URL. For those of you still unfamiliar with TinEye (how is that possible?):
Photoshelter partners with TinEye
What happens when you mix two really great things together? Generally, something super-great. And that’s why the TinEye team is excited to announce our partnership with the good folks over at Photoshelter, a leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be adding the entire Photoshelter image collection to the TinEye...
TinEye on CNN
TinEye, our reverse image search engine, ended up on CNN with Kyra Phillips. Lucky TinEye!
During this segment, CNN’s Kyra Phillips talks to virtual safety expert Christine Durst about protecting your family photos online. Have a listen:
Surprising what TinEye can unearth, like say an older photograph of Kyra Phillips being used on a Latin American online clinic website!
Wikimedia Commons & TinEye
Since the launch of TinEye, we have had a great response from the Wikimedia Commons image community. Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-content files, including images, that are either in the public domain or released under free licenses. These images are used in many of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and the...
TinEye earns a star
TinEye helps Sheila Smart recover 1000 euros and that makes us happy. Here is her image and its unlicensed usage on a book cover:
TinEye on the trail of the British National Party
I now know that I am not the only one who is TinEye-ing every single image I come across on the internet. I have become a TinEye addict. I am soon going to need to start a TinEye Anonymous group: Hello my name is Leila and I am addicted to TinEye! I bet I would be in great company. But on to the British National Party. Did you know that: The UK Telegraph reports that pamphlets distributed by the...
Our TinEye Firefox add-on on recommended list of add-ons!
Mozilla has created a recommended list of add-ons.
From Mozilla:
It allows us to feature add-ons that have done a good job of creating a unique and/or exciting enhancement to Mozilla software.
Our TinEye add-on made the category list feature for Photos, Music & Videos. Woot!
What are you still waiting for: go download it now!