The Polar Rose Browser Plug-in

[Baddog]

Not Meaning to plug the software or the company... I thought this was new and interesting. And you can become a Beta Tester.

Welcome to Polar Rose

The web is increasingly becoming visually oriented, progressing from text to photos and other rich media. Close to 10 million new photos are uploaded on a daily basis, a number which is doubling every eight to ten months.

Photos tell many stories, but unlike text, the context of a photo is hard to search for unless explicitly "translated" by a human being. The photo web of today is like the text web before Altavista, Inktomi, and Google.

Polar Rose makes photos searchable by analyzing their content and recognizing the people in them.
http://www.polarrose.com/

[Strawbs]

bookmarked - will give it a try later. :t

[Ol'Tunzafun]

This is more "bionic software" like Ancestry.com and Driverguide.com which will harvest free data from us until it reaches a critical mass, at which point it will begin demanding fees, even from all of those folks who uploaded all of that free data to them. At best this will become a massive invasion of privacy. If I can find a picture of Baddog, I will be able to search, not only for other pictures of him but also, pictures of his relatives and friends, past and present.
Google is probably already preparing an offer.