The Archives
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06.03.08Polar Rose, the face recognition search engine, gets ready to go publicPolar Rose, a facial recognition based search engine that allows you to find photos of people by their name, is getting ready to enter public beta. Yesterday I received an e-mail from them with my invite (at last, I was subscribed since around November 2006!), and their blog states that they have a "public beta coming up". Polar Rose works by having people tag images through a browser plugin (see picture to the right), and then building a model of that person using some sophisticated technology that came out of EU-backed research projects at the universities of Malmö and Lund in ...
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05.07.081,000th comment spam caught at Daily IterationLess than two months after moving to our new home at Webfaction and activating Akismet on the blog (previously I used Spam Karma), Akismet today reports that it has caught an astonishing 1000 comment spams. Considering this count starts on March 19th, and that the blog has very little traffic, this is quite astonishing, isn't it? According to Google Analytics, I haven't even had that same number of pageviews ever since I started tracking the blog... Where will this end? And I wonder what it's like for the very large blogs, how much spam they must surely get. Any of ...
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04.04.08Twhirl, Seesmic, hobbies and black swansThis one is for the people who often ask me, when I embark on another "for pleasure" project, "when are you going to do something that makes some money?". Well, how about this for an example: Marco Kaiser, a german developer, had his own little personal project called Twhirl. Twhirl is a Twitter client written for Adobe's AIR - I use it, and it's the best Twitter client there is. Who knows what motivated him to do it, he was probably a Twitter user frustrated by the state of current desktop clients, so the guy goes ou there and makes ...
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09.27.07Pay It To Me: get stuff for free (if it works)…Pay It To Me is one of those odd ideas that just might work out. Conceived by some guy from Belgium (of course, given that they put mayonnaise on their French Fries, what can you expect from people like that), the idea is strange enough that it might actually work: people send pictures of stuff they want (anything) and their Paypal username to the site. The picture gets posted, and if an advertiser likes the idea, he/she pays you the amount of money your posted item costs. For that, they get a link to their site for 15 days, one ...
recent posts
- Twhirl + identi.ca + XMPP
- Another job, another blog break….
- Polar Rose, the face recognition search engine, gets ready to go public
- Twit-out: a full day without Twitter (and with Pownce?)
- 1,000th comment spam caught at Daily Iteration
- New Seesmic plugin activated!
- Google Desktop - hard drive space hog
