Archive for the ‘Idee’ Category
- Google + colour searching
Well it is about time that the Google folks mimicked the Canadian search giants – yes, that us! Google introduced colour search to image searching. Nice. Of course it will be awesome! Still no multicolour on Google but you can try a simple hack to get the poor man’s multicolour on Google: search for a colour using a keyword (for example blue sky) and pick a different colour from the drop down. Voila! No great image search results but hey it is a start…
Now if you want the play with the real deal in multicolour searching head over to the Idée lab!
Love how a blog post on LifeHacker about Google’s colour search moves into a full discussion of Idée’s technologies namely: TinEye and Multicolor search. Fun times in the Ideeplex!
- TinEye – the debunker of fake photos!
Well TinEye is a myth debunker! He is a fake photo buster. A couple of days ago the UK Telegraph reported that there was perhaps a giant snake lurking in the Borneo river but Mark Frauenfelder from BoingBoing smelled a doctored photograph:
Via BoingBoing: My unexpert analysis concludes that these photos of a 100-foot long river snake from Borneo are as phony as a politician’s smile.
Well yes, they are. Fromage who is a TinEye user pointed out that the photograph was a fake and that one of the original photograph could be found here. Here is a link to the entire TinEye result set.
- TinEye is a Cool Tool: well hell yeah!
When Kevin Kelly talks *you* listen. I am a huge Kevin Kelly fan so seeing our little reverse image search engine on his Cool Tool list made me sing all day. Ok not all day but you get the idea!
- Happiness in colors
A few months ago I had a great conversation with Daniela who is a Brazilian journalist at the Folha De Sao Paulo. Daniela was writing about our Multicolr lab – this is one of the Idée labs where you can search 10 million creative commons images using multi colours. You can select up to 10 colors for your search (go play, if you have never tried it, and please don’t blame me for the amount of time you will be spending there today!). Anyhoo…I remembered the conversation last night because of Garrett’s comment below:
It is easy to forget how important color is in our world – this may seem strange coming out of the mouth of someone who has been wearing black (exclusively) for the past 2 decades but… color unifies us. My conversation with Daniela was not so much about how color searching works but more about how color breaks down all language barriers, we all have favorite colors, we all see and look at color differently and one thing is for sure: words are very poor color descriptors!
- Multicolor Search: not for the communist!
Oh yeah we all knew that: our multicolor search is not for the communist! Jason made my day!
- Bakorama at Idee!
We have taken on the baking challenge this week: first up was my French toast, followed by Alice’s super fudge. I am wondering what tomorrow will bring us. This will make running an even more important activity this week!
- Multicolour lab with 10 million images
Yes! It is online and you too can play with it! You can now search 10 million Creative Commons Flickr images on the Idée lab using multicolour. Another first in the world for Idée. You will make fantastic discoveries, you will not be able to stop playing so please don’t read this at work as I don’t want to be responsible for all the time you will be "wasting" using this fantastic and creative search.
Look at what we found while playing with the multicolour search lab in the ideeplex:
Can you beat this?
- In Seattle
In Seattle for work. And amazingly we brought the sunshine with us. Toronto is drowning in rains. What has the world come to!
(Photo (c) Andy)
- TinEye, l’avenir dans la protection des images !
Oh you knew this was coming: French reviews for TinEye! For those of you not familiar with the world’s loveliest language, we will translate it for you so here you go: TinEye rocks!
Vous l’avez compris : c’est un extraordinaire outil que ce moteur de recherche expérimental, qui devrait non seulement révolutionner le travail des photographes et graphistes dans le contrôle du droit d’auteur, mais aussi permettre aux agences de communication de vérifier simplement et rapidement, en quelques clics, si une photographie est déjà utilisée ou non …
A great TinEye review by Cedric Girard on Aube-Nature (in French folks!).
- DeviantART + TinEye
I am a huge DeviantART fan. Yes. I am deviant – but you all knew that! So it is doubly fun to come into the office and find out we made news on DeviantART – thanks Paula for letting us know. Great new fans today! Folks we will approve you all as quickly as we can! I know some of you have already started using TinEye and we welcome your comments and feedbacks. What I hear so far:Paula: curious [about] how famous you already are
) try TinyEye.kkart: This thing is INCREDIBLE!
Oh yes, we agree. TinEye is incredible!evile33: That thing blows me away…I got approved and got the FF extension…it’s awesome!
The Firefox extension we developed is awesome of course. Allows you to search for any image you find on the web with a single click so if you are a TinEye user, don’t go home without installing it.
We will get back to work at the Ideeplex and make TinEye better! We are working on an extension for IE so that should be out there soon!
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