Archive for the 'Flickr' Category
In Love with Geotagging
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006The New York Times recently extolled the virtues of using GPS in digital cameras and camera cellphones to “geotag” photos with the location at which they were taken:
…advocates of geotagging, like Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr, contend that linking pictures to maps can lend a new dimension to photography. For one […]
FlickrInspector Helps you Mine Flickr’s Data
Monday, July 17th, 2006FlickrInspector is a new tool to help make amateur data-mining of Web 2.0 more efficient. Enter a Flickr username, user ID, or email, and FlickrInspector gives you all the “publicly available” information on that Flickr user, including “interestingness”, recently uploaded photos, favorites, contacts, tags, sets, etc.
It’s a convenient way to stalk learn more about your […]
The Hidden Photos Within Photos
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Imagine you’re partying with some friends, and you take a photo of the group. Everyone is having a good time, drinking, smoking, etc. You want to post the photo to your Flickr, MySpace or Facebook account, but think maybe you should crop out the face of your friend who was smoking pot in the photo, […]
Digital camera plus GPS = Flickr mapping heaven?
Thursday, April 13th, 2006I’ve stumbled across a few blog posts extolling the virtues of having a GPS-enabled digital camera. For example:
My wife doesn’t want to have to carry around two bulky devices and greatly extend the already considerable time it takes her to get photos online by manually tagging photos with lat-long, she just wants to be able […]
Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Today’s Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that having more than one image of a subject in the database to compare to improved […]




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