Sunday, March 30, 2008

Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Tech Crunch on Image Taggng

This is really interesting: another niche market for 'home based businesses...?" LOL. Probably not.
Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos: "Most people have thousands of digital photos sitting on their hard drive. And the vast majority of those photos aren’t tagged or searchable. Want to find the 300 pictures of your youngest son amongst 10,000 others? It’s not going to happen. Unless you’ve been diligently tagging and categorizing those photos over the years, and who does that?

The problem is obvious. The solution, not so much. A trail of failed startups have tried to tackle the problem with a fairly serious application of technology, including: Riya (now focused on ecommerce via Like.com), Ookles (never launched), and Polar Rose (in private beta for nearly a year), among others."

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