Posts Tagged ‘annotation’

Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web (2008), by Gene Smith. Smith dives into tagging as a method for adding metadata to resources, which in turn increases the organization and findability of the resources.

What’s cool about tags is that you can easily tag the same information with multiple tags. Does the information fall in #techcomm, #contentstrategy, and #findability disciplines? You don’t have to choose one folder to assign the content to. With tags, resources can live in multiple places at once.

Tagging is emerging as one of the most common ways to organize resources on the web. Smith notes that Delicious, a social bookmarking site that first appeared in 2003, was one of the first instances of tagging to emerge online. However, he also notes that classification and metadata strategies have been ongoing for centuries, with the Dewey Decimal system as one of the prime examples.

You can read the whole blog entry at http://idratherbewriting.com/2011/12/26/using-tags-to-increase-findability/

Patent number 7,945,653 titled Tagging digital media has been accepted and assigned to Facebook. Here’s the critical first independent claim: “A method comprising: receiving from a device of a first user a selection of an item of digital media, wherein the item of digital media is stored in a database; receiving from the device of the first user an identification of a person associated with the selected item of digital media; responsive to receiving the information identifying the person, sending a notification to a device of a second user that the person has been identified in connection with the item of digital media; and enabling the identified person to reject the identification, wherein the identified user is different from the first user.”

You can find the whole blog entry at http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/facebook-gets-broad-patent-on-digital-media-tagging/10693

Images are everywhere. With the large development and spreading of mobile devices embedding image sensors, this fact becomes even more important. EPFL never had such an easy access to picture than nowadays. Since a few years, EPFL is actively developing algorithms, in collaboration with the CVLab, as well as systems and demonstrators to do automatic image annotation. The latter consists in overlaying related information on picture. These information can take various forms including text, pictures or videos. The interesting potential of automatic image annotation is to be able to add information at certain places on the images.

You can find all the information at http://lcav.epfl.ch/research/automatic_image_annotation

EmmaActive is a new platform that rewards people who take the time to identify and tag products on photographs. This system is open to just any person who is willing to give it a try, and both site owners and advertisers are greatly benefited by it. The former make money whenever people tag a product on any photo displayed on their sites, whereas advertisers are getting a higher-quality of inbound traffic (IE, people who are keener on buying anything than those who are surfing the Web aimlessly).

The real strength of this image advertising platform is how it lets people who visit a site looking for specific products buy them directly by merely clicking on the tags that are featured.

EmmaActive means that no more will anybody have to look for the best spot to buy anything they saw and liked when browsing the Web. This service turns every image that is tagged into something that can be purchased. And since people are being rewarded for taking their time to tag products, everything comes full circle.

Read more: http://www.killerstartups.com/eCommerce/emmaactive-com-tag-products-on-images

Speaking Image is a web application developed jointly by 2mdc and General Foundation CSIC. Its main objective is to provide an online tool for interactive annotation of images.

The idea is to allows users to upload high-resolution images, work on them adding information over specific areas of the image and interact with other users through standard social network tools.

If you want more information, do not hesitate to visit their website at http://www.speakingimage.org or having a look at the tour.