Copyright
oh I guess Taiwan’s Intellectual Property Office has yet to figure out how to use TinEye 🙂 Continue reading Copyright
Category: image search
Public domain images
A few times I wondered why there was no “Public Domain” selection in Flickr because there are some images (mine obviously) that I wanted to release into the public domain. I didn’t think much about it at the time but Paul and I have been talking about public domain images a lot lately – because … Continue reading Public domain images
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 … Continue reading Google + colour searching
It is personal
That would be the user generated content conference in February 2009 in California. I will be speaking at the conference and I am looking forward to it. I am surrounded by user generated content: open source software in the software space, wikipedia, flickr and creative commons, ThinkBig, just to name a few. I am looking … Continue reading It is personal
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. Continue reading Department of Defense and Photoshop
Life Photo Archive on Google Image Search
Google’s efforts to bring offline images online and make them universally accessible strike again, this time by bringing online the 10 million Life archive photo collection. Only 20% of the archive is currently online and available for viewing here, but Google is planning on adding the entire LIFE archive over the coming months. I have … Continue reading Life Photo Archive on Google Image Search