Archive for the ‘TinEye’ 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!
- Passion at work
From Mavericks at work
“.. in business, as in basket ball, the smart take from the strong – that the best way to outperform the competition is to outthink the competition.. ” and it’s the “..mavericks do the work that matters most – the work of originality, creativity, and experimentation..” totally driven by passion!
Which makes me really excited about the sold out Refesh event on Monday: where passion meets ignite presentations!
We will start the evening with a passion presentation by Peter Flaschner followed by 6 Ignite presentations and since I am the last one that evening (and it is Monday too!), I will make my TinEye Ignite presentation extra tasty!
StayFresh: 7 PM – 10 PM, Centre for Social Innovation @ 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120 (Map)
Ignite Speakers:
- Erin Bury, RedWire
- Rachel Azagury, CreatingABuzz
- Saul Colt, Freshbooks
- Kieran Huggins, MyTTC
- Noah Godfrey, GigPark
- Leila Boujnane, Idée Inc.
Photograph (c) marfis75
- TinEye firefox add-on
As most of you know, TinEye is our reverse image search engine. Go ahead try it, it does not bite and does quite a bit of searching too. We released our TinEye Firefox add on a few months ago and today it has close to 13,000 downloads!
- 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!
- Department of Defense and Photoshop
Somebody please tell the Department of Defense about TinEye. I mean if you are going to retouch photographs and release them as handouts, would you not first want to make sure that nobody can actually find the originals? And what’s the best way to do that (besides Bob Owen’s eagle eyes!)? TinEye it is.
- Robots
I have the feeling somebody in the Ideeplex is going to get this lovely T-Shirt. So many robots, so much fun. I am looking forward to TinEye joining the robot armada soon and this little tshirt will need to be updated again; because TinEye is a super hero now!
- Fancy pants robots
What’s the secret behind For Tax Reasons‘ terrific work? They
make those fancy animations with hard labor coerced from underpaid,
non-union robots. Robots with simmering resentments that might! just!
blow! up! Ah… I knew we were not the only ones using robots! I flew from Seattle to San Francisco on Virgin America and this video just totally cracked me up. And yes the entertainment on Virgin includes Boing Boing videos. How cool is that? Oh Air Canada how I would love you to steal a page from the Virgin book.
- TinEye and cool searches
We have some cool searches over on the Idée blog.
- TinEye – поиск картинок – я заценил, а вы?
You don’t understand what TinEye – ????? ???????? – ? ???????, ? ??? means? Well me neither: but thanks to Google translation tools I know that TinEye is loved in Russia. Makes me happy.
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