its already there, just not on the homepage
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Polar Rose – giving meaning to web images
One of the most interesting companies of the next year must be Polar Rose, a swedish startup doing facial recognition.
Their idea is simple: They want to give meaning to each and every picture with people posing. In effect, they want to recognize each person of each photo on the web, and having seen their presentation at SIME a few months ago, I must say, they really might succeed.
A number of services have tried this before, but in my mind they were not really successful because of the labour the user would have to go through in order to tag each person. Polar Rose uses unique face recognition algorithms and the collective intelligence of our users to tag all pictures on the web. The only problem they are going to face is that their technology relies on a browser plugin (probably because they want to harness the collective data processing power as well, otherwise they could and would have built their front-end with JavaScript or as simple extensions), which they will have a hard time to get out to all users.
But very interesting indeed, be sure to sign up to their beta on the pages.
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Photoshop CS3 Beta
Yeah, finally a Universal build of Photoshop. Adobe has announced that Photoshop CS3 (with additional beta stuff like the Adobe Device Central and Bridge) are going to be launched on Adobe labs today. Point your browsers there and keep hitting that refresh button.
Update: Still no frontpage coverage, but you can dowload PS CS3 here.
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There’s a glitch with the serial number system, so we haven’t posted the pages/URLs yet. If you’re experiencing problems with serial numbers, please sit tight.
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Thanks for the update, John.
Back from Flash on the Beach
I just got back from the first european Flash conference in years, and must say it was a bit of a disappointment. There were a few excellent sessions from Aral Balkan and Craig Swan in particular, but I found the rest to be really too basic. I mean, most developers attending the conference probably are quite experienced. It’s just frustrating to sit at a session where you’re told that Flash now has filters and a drawing API. Seriously guys, either get better topics or tell how advanced each talk is going to be.
And please, throw better parties the next time. They really sucked.
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strange that you picked those two sessions out as good while you thought the others were too basic… Aral’s and Craig’s presentations were not really focussed on hardcore Flash development either.
Maybe it was the weather that really spoiled it for you!?
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Out of interest, wot sort of stuff would u have like to have been included in the sessions?
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Before you totally bash me, let me say that it wasn’t all bad
I did enjoy the conference for most parts. I think the biggest problem is that you’re really not able to conceive from the session subject and description how advanced the stuff is going to be, so that would be something to correct for the next FOTB. You know, “Reface your interface with the DrawingAPI” can mean a lot of things… -
Personally I think it’s a bit lame when someone travels over the Atlantic to give teaser session about their latest book, nothing else. Makes me feel like I’m listening a vacuum-cleaning salesman.
But Erik Natzke and Marcos Weskamp gave me a huge stack of inspirations so I’m not disappointed about FOTB at all. -
no bashing Tuomas! Just trying to work out the real views of people so we can make sure to avoid the same things next time… You’re right about the session descriptions on the timetable etc…
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Hey Tuomas
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Hi Tink,
I think what’s best about conferences like FOTB is to have talented people share their experience in different fields (be it coding techniques, pitfalls, algorithms, ideas). You know, something that you only have knowledge of after you’ve used several years doing that stuff.
I think the topics were good. The problem was that each session started with very basic stuff and got to the interesting part in the last ten minutes. Instead of trying to please everyone, it would be a good idea to have sessions wich require participants to have a advanced knowledge of the subject to be covered (and tell that in the session descriptions). -
Btw, from what I heard, your session was great, Tink
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Point taken, and thanks
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From my personal point of view I thought FOTB was fantastic and an absolute credit to John Davey. I’ve spoken at a lot of Flash conferences and this is up there with the best. As for the parties I’ve been to quite a few crap parties at lots of conferences – usually the best ones are the ones that aren;t planned so to speak. Obviously I’m speaking a speaker here so my views can be a bit skewed compared to an attendee but those I spoke to thought it was a fantastic three days.
I think on the point of session descriptions I agree the pocket schedule and the booklet should have had the descriptions – I’ve already fed that back to John and I’m sure next time that will be sorted. But just having the pocket schedule was cool – many dont have that.
We’ve also got to remember that this was the first FOTB. John and the team will no doubt listen to everyone’s feedback and continue to craft what I’m sure will become a must attend event.
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Toumas,
Thanks for the kind words.
Actually, we’ll also be relying on data that is generated by users not using the plug-in, namely by licensing our APIs royalty free to other sites like photo-sharing services. People using these sites will have the Polar Rose functionality without needing the plug-in.
We’ll also release a javascript API which will allow a site owner to add Polar Rose functionality to any web page with photos.
(The plug-in btw is in fact just a Firefox extension — plug-in name used for broader understanding and across MS IE too. But of course it requires people to actively install it nonetheless)
Regards,
Nikolaj Nyholm (from Polar Rose)
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