The 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…
Tag: Flickr
FlickrInspector Helps you Mine Flickr’s Data
FlickrInspector 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…
The Hidden Photos Within Photos
Imagine 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…
Digital camera plus GPS = Flickr mapping heaven?
I'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…
Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Today'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…
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