James Danziger over at The Daily Beast chronicles his search for the photographer who took the initial photograph that Shepard Fairey used to create the Obama Hope image we are now all familiar with. Great little article, and all this without TinEye‘s help!
TinEye makes website of the day over at PopWatch. Well thank you Entertainment Weekly! That’s awesome.
Is it 2009 already? How did that happen?
Happy to welcome you new year – but hey slow down a little, we need a bit of time to appreciate these first frigid months in Toronto. Don’t know about you folks but we are experiencing some crazy cold 
weather. Ah but we love it! We are Canadian after all and cold winters don’t scare us. Although when I see TinEye reviews in far far away countries I start to wonder about this whole Canadian winter thing! Anyway, TinEye is still traveling the world: yesterday in Israel he made the pages of Nana, Israel’s technology pages – and what a great little article.
Adelle from Web Design Ledger has a nice little post about interface design for login screens where our TinEye login screen is mentioned. Our goal in designing the TinEye interface was to make the user’s interaction as simple as possible. And a lof the the example’s that Adelle collected achieve exactly that. This is a wonderful compilation to inspire you in your next interface design development. Smashing magazine also has two great (old) posts with infinite resources web forms design patters part 1 and part 2. Enjoy!
Well, it has been a little while since our last post! We have been busy at the Ideeplex! More about that later…
Now, yesterday I came across a little announcement about an interactive advertising agency (Traction) launching a social media engagement initiative for Adobe – yes, a lot of words to basically say: Traction launched a facebook game that asks “fans” of the Adobe Students page on Facebook to decide if a presented image is real or fake. Ah! I thought to myself, if these students are smart, they will have heard about TinEye and they could ace those questions! Because as you know, TinEye is a reverse image search engine: give it an image and it will show you where that image is appearing on the web. So I went ahead and gave it a try. I am up for some fun during business hours!
Nothing makes me smile more than hearing users talk about TinEye-ing an image! I stumbled across this digg post a while back – totally forgot about it until this morning. I love how TinEye was the first image search tool mentioned and used to find the Awesome Spaghetti Junction photograph. And by the way the junction photograph is that of Bangkok’s expressways.
Patricia’s list of technology resources and toys included TinEye this month. Patricia is the Head Librarian for the Dentistry Library of the University of Michigan and her list includes some pretty cool technologies to try and add to your arsenal. I would add to it Multicolr – because I am biased and it is a great tool! Thanks for the TinEye mention. Always great to hear from and about our users.
I would really want the weather to improve in Durban, because when the weather is crap – Daniel Cuthbert’s words not mine – he spends his time using TinEye and that’s really good but he find out upsetting things: like say his photograph(s) being used without permission. That’s not nice and that’s why I really wish that the weather would improve tremendously in Durban so that Daniel can get out there and shoot! TinEye is a superhero. I just wish he had a cape. A great red cape? It looks like Daniel has resolved one of his photo theft!
Hello folks, you probably have noticed that TinEye is down and you are most likely wondering why that is? I mean the lovely folks at idee take their servers and service seriously and would not take away such a wonderfully useful image search tool. Or would they? Well here is our sad sad epic fail story with our domain name registration service PairNic (PairNetworks)- yes, you there!
We are doing an incredibly simple thing (or so we thought): changing the tineye host servers, but we run into a major fail with our domain name registration service and it will be a while before they fix things. What’s a while, oh well perhaps an hour, perhaps longer. Who the hell knows, right? I know you can tell I am mad as hell!
For those interested in the technical details: it seems that pairNIC forces you to update your primary and secondary name server entries for a domain before they themselves have added your new DNS entries to their nameservers! And it takes them up to four hours to add your entries! Yeah, makes sense right? They are looking at fixing this at some unspecified time in the future. PairNIC = FAIL. And there you have it, so please go and amuse yourselves with the multicolr image search lab in the meantime. We are sorry!