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Flickr Desktop Search: Search flickr right from your desktop

Vivek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:33:00 +0000

I think one area of information that’s still to be captured thoroughly is information in the form of images. People around the world are doing great research on how to understand and tap the information from a photo. What are the semantics of information which can be captured from an image which will give an idea about the image.

We are still not in that era, but I am sure we are not too far from it. I am sure some of the recommendations of Web 3.0 are going to strongly focus on capturing the information from images and pictures.

However, as of now when the web is still in web 2.0 era, there are some wonderful services that we would have missed. These services have redefined what the way we manage our images/pictures/photos. One such service is flickr. I think the most used service from the basket of Yahoo! is Flickr, at least for me.

I always wished that there was an easier way for me to browse flickr and not struggle with the web interface of it. I think I have found something close if not exactly what I thought. This little piece of utility is called as Flickr Desktop Search and helps you search for flickr photo right from your desktop.

Not to take away from the fact that the results that you view are part of a web serving, but still the neat and simple interface makes this service a good one for novice. The problem with the service however is that it is an adobe air application which is pretty resource consuming. All in all a good pice of utility.

GazoPa: Image search redefined

Vivek — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:33:36 +0000

How the world of web and blogsphere would have looked without images? Really it’s very difficult to imagine a world with out pictures and images. The saying “pictures speak louder than words” holds absolutely perfect for bloggers. But for images in their articles, bloggers would be handicap. It’s imperative for me to include images in the posts I write and I cannot think of doing a post without images. What are the advantages (and trust me there are only advantages)?

your blog looks much more beautiful when you have images in it.
you can control the flow of what you are trying to say beautifully well with images.
You can have posts only with images and they add a different flavor to the post.
For tutorial sites it’s imperative to use images else the purpose of the post is defeated.

I have emphasized enough on why websites and especially bloggers have to use images in their daily workflow. Let’s take a look at a service that’ll make your search for images an easier one. The service
is
called as
Gazopa and
is an
image search engine. The service is called as Gazopa and is an image search engine. No doubt there are wonderful services like Flickr and DeviantArt, but Gazopa has a different flavor to the way it caters to your need of image search.

Remember sometime back we wrote about a service called as TinEye. Gazopa is similar to TinEye and help you search images using image. TinEye searches for exactly same images whereas Gazopa’s searches for all the similar and related images which need not have to same. Let’s look at the features it promises to offer:

GazoPa is a similar image search service on the web in private beta by Hitachi.
Users can search images from the web based on user
Tags: deviantart, Flickr, gazopa, image search engine, search images, search service, similar image search, tineye

Flickr’s Camera Finder – Most Popular Camera

Abbas — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:09:38 +0000

Flickr.com recently introduced a new feature for the photography lovers in all categories. Flickr being one of the mostly used photo sharing, hosting and blogging service is making the right use of information available. The new feature is called “Camera Finder”

This feature lets the users see which camera is being most widely used for clicking pictures in other words most popular camera on Flickr community. These cameras are divided in 3 broad categories, 1) Pro SLR/DSLR 2) Point and Shoot and 3) Phone Cameras. Flickr is gathering this information from the EXIF data associated with every picture which is uploaded to the site.

This is a useful feature which might help upcoming photographers who are climbing up the ladder of professional photography and trying out new photography gadgets and cameras. It will give them a chance to browse through pictures based on the camera and decide based on the picture quality and at the end of the day knowing which camera is being mostly used can be a tie breaker.

Click here to access Flickr’s camera page!

Tags: camera, Flickr, Yahoo