The Red Tape on MSNBC chronicles the (mis)adventures of Stefanie Gordon whom you may not know at all but whose picture you have very likely seen: she is the person who shot this incredible photograph of the Space Shuttle Endeavour last launch.
“Short on sleep and worried about the recent loss of her job, Stefanie Gordon boarded a Delta flight from New York to Palm Beach at 6:30 a.m. on May 16. Still miffed after a late-night Yankees loss to the Red Sox, she took a photo out the window of her airplane seat with an iPhone, tweeted it to friends when she landed, then headed off to spend the day with her father.
By the time she was sitting in the passenger seat of his car, her iPhone was practically buzzing out of her lap, teeming with messages of congratulation and requests for interviews. Gordon’s now-famous photo of the space shuttle Endeavour soaring through the clouds got her an overwhelming amount of attention — her 15 minutes of fame, Internet style. It also landed her smack in the middle of an ethical and legal debate that may be as important as the future of the Internet itself.” …continued
Although Stefanie Gordon’s image has yet to make it into our TinEye index (but it will very soon), it is nice to see TinEye mentioned:
After the photo has been published online, it’s up to you to watch for infringers. Software can help. A free tool called TinEye looks for digital signatures of images — a sort of alert service for pictures — and will report if a picture is being used.
Permalink | Posted May 25.11 by Leila to Press | No Comments »
Our next hacking event as part of HackDays is happening in Calgary. We just wrapped up our Waterloo Hackathon and are looking forward to meeting Calgary developers in June. If you are not familiar with our hackathons: we organize monthly hacking events that bring together the brightest developers across Canada. We work together in a day, in a space to hack and create awesome applications using local APIs. We select local APIs, make them available to participating developers with expert guidance from the API providers and an environment where you are going to be excited about hacking and creating! The hack day is also a competition: as a developer you will compete for great prizes and glory! And this is all done in a day! So if this is up your alley, join us in Calgary:
Date: Saturday June 4th, 2011 in Calgary!
Time: 9 AM to 6 PM
Registration: All developers are welcome to register. Registration fee is $10.00. Your registration includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks + the chance to meet other awesome developers and companies.
APIs: If you know of a local company with a fantastic API you would like to work with, please let them know about HackCGY drop us an email would love to hear from you.
Sponsors: HackCGY is brought to you by our incredible sponsors including: Freshbooks, iStockPhoto, TinEye and YellowPages. We are of course still looking for additional sponsors to make HackCGY the best it can be, so please drop us an email if you are interested in being a sponsor.
We have held HackDays in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Waterloo but if this is your first time attending our hack events, here is what to expect and how to prepare. We are looking forward to welcoming you all in Calgary.
Permalink | Posted May 23.11 by Leila to HackCalgary | No Comments »
Did you know that we organize monthly hack events across Canada? We just wrapped up our latest hackathon in Ottawa and it was a blast. Developers from Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto built some great applications. We had an awesome time so when Ilya Grigorik, PostRank’s CTO, offered to host the next hackathon, we glady accepted! So hackers, developers and awesome people: join us in Waterloo on Saturday April 9th, 2011 for HackWaterloo.
When: Saturday April 9th, 2011
Where: PostRank’s Headquarters (uptown Waterloo)
Time: 9 AM to 6 PM
The format is pretty much our usual hackathon format so consider this your call to register and secure a spot!
Permalink | Posted Mar 10.11 by Leila to Events, HackTO | 3 Comments »
A small TinEye update for you fans: 12 million images added to the TinEye index. Bringing our database image index to 1,894,458,529.
[Photograph (c) Umberto Salvagin]
Permalink | Posted Mar 09.11 by Leila to TinEye Updates | 1 Comment »
Copyright Reform
I am looking forward to seeing some of the copyright reform recommendations rolled out soon. If like me, you have tried to use the search functions to find copyright information for a photograph or any works, you know what I mean. You – like most of the Copyright Office users probably still have forehead bruises resulting from your head hitting a nearby concrete wall (or handy hard surface).
On all seriousness: it is about time to bring the Copyright Office forward. So if you are in Washington, join us for an afternoon conference: Toward a Copyright Office for the 21st Century, a Public Knowledge Conference discussing the future of the Copyright Office. This conference will build off of the ideas put forth in Public Knowledge’s recent whitepaper, “A Copyright Office for the 21st Century: Recommendations to the New Register of Copyrights”.
This is incredibly timely as the Librarian of Congress will be appointing the first new Register of Copyright since 1994. The new Register will be the first appointed in the Internet era, and will have an opportunity to shape the Copyright Office for the 21st Century.
I am excited to be joining the conversation and participating in a panel presentation this afternoon along side:
With the advances made in image search and image recognition based search, perhaps the next Copyright Office Database is simply the web!
Permalink | Posted Mar 07.11 by Leila to Copyright, Image Recognition, Image Search | 1 Comment »
Did you know that we organize HackDays across Canada? Where awesome developers meet and build new application using APIs that we provide? Did you know that our hack events are the best hacking events ever? That the developers who join us kick ass? And the applications they build awesome? I bet you didn’t know. Join us next time.
Today we are eating our own dog food in the TinEye HQ and building a feature for a client. And I am looking forward to seeing it roll out at the end of the day so stay tuned. We are working hard, unlike our TinEye HQ dog:
Zazie
Zazie is totally chillin’. ah that’s what we will be doing at the end of the day when we hit deploy!
Permalink | Posted Mar 04.11 by Leila to TinEye | No Comments »
And we are unbelievably happy about that! Happy searching!
Permalink | Posted Feb 23.11 by Leila to TinEye Status | 2 Comments »
TinEye fans: TinEye is offline at the moment and we are working around the clock to complete our updates to get it back online. Please be patient with us as this may take a few more hours.
Permalink | Posted Feb 22.11 by Leila to TinEye | 3 Comments »
TinEye fans: we have a little update for our TinEye Firefox Add-on. We have added the ability to search for images on your own computer (i.e. file:// URLs) and for images on secure websites (i.e. https:// URLs). Our TinEye add-on now sends the raw image data when the image URL starts with file:// or https://.
This means that you will be able to search for images you encounter when you are on a secure site that requires a login. Instead of saving the image to your hard drive and submitting it to TinEye, you will now simply be able to right click the image to search.
Happy searching. And happy attribution by TinEye. And as always, let us know your feedback.
Permalink | Posted Feb 17.11 by Leila to TinEye, TinEye Firefox add-on, TinEye Updates | 7 Comments »
Well we know it is not 2 billion images but close!
Another little TinEye index update of 19 million images. Are there yet? Are there yet?
Almost!
Permalink | Posted Feb 16.11 by Leila to TinEye, TinEye Updates | No Comments »