- So many events, so little time!
Our always-on-the-go CEO Leila Boujnane is attending the Founders and Funders event in Toronto the evening of June 4th and then jumping on a plane to NYC for an early morning panel appearance in New York on the 5th! We are trying to see if we can fit her with a superwoman cape to beat the New York City’s early morning traffic…In New York she will be speaking on the Anti-piracy: Fighting Online Infringement panel at the 2008 RPAC Annual Conference.
Organized by The Association of American Publishers‘ Rights and Permissions Advisory Committee (RPAC), the panel also includes Suzanne Telsey (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.), Peter Anaman and Ronald Dove (Covington and Burling LLP) and Bill Sampson (Cengage).
Pop by and say hello if you happen to be near the NYU Kimmel Center on June 5th or, if you are heading to western Canada soon, stop in at NextMEDIA for a chat in Banff on the 8th!
** Photo Ben30
- TinEye offers students a new way to search!
We love the idea that TinEye could make learning and education a little bit easier!
That’s why we were so pleased to read Linda Braun’s post on teenagers and the world of search.
“It’s important for librarians serving teens to recognize the search tools that are preferred by the age group.
Searchme and TinEye are particularly good for those teens who are visual and who might be more successful with searching and results that are displayed in an image-based form. ”
Fantastic!
It is exciting to have educators, librarians and library associations joining our growing community and we really hope to hear more about how you are using TinEye with your students and your community.
We were also happy to hear that Linda thinks “…searching TinEye gives you a sense of where search is headed.” We agree wholeheartedly!
Know a librarian or teacher who might be interested in TinEye? Send them our way!
- TinEye got TechCrunch’d!
“I’ve seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usually promise far more than they deliver. But last week, I finally saw one that deserves the name. It is called TinEye.” wrote Erick Schonfeld of, you got it, TechCrunch.
In the wee hours of the morning the folks at TechCrunch posted their review of TinEye…I bet you know what happened next!
We’ve been so busy today answering emails and inviting users to our awesome beta image search engine that we are just now getting to blogging about it!
If you missed out on the 500 invitations they were giving out not to worry! You can still sign up for our nifty beta via the TinEye website. We will grant additional invitations as soon as we can.
Thank you TechCrunch! This is just the beginning for TinEye.
- TinEye love, TinEye linkfest!
Yes! You like us!Our image search engine is the talk of the town! TinEye has hundreds of mentions on blogs, forums and websites around the world!
“Even if this is in private beta, it works perfectly. TinEye is the start of a revolution.” - Razvan Pirnac, trendblogging.org
“tineye.com is an awesome tool. I think it’ll be something we’ll be wondering how we ever lived without in the near future. ” - deadmann, Twitter
(Did you know TinEye is on twitter? Come and say hello!)
“This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” - sundesigns, stock.xchng forum
Are you excited about the next release? We are! Thank you for all your comments, suggestions and tremendous support. We can’t wait to grow our image index and make TinEye better for you. The Idéeplex is buzzing with energy night and day as we work on improvements, they are coming soon! Stay tuned!
We always want to hear from our users, please keep sending your comments, tweaks, feature ideas and kudos (we love kudos!) to tineyefeedback @ ideeinc.com.
What? You don’t have a TinEye account yet? Visit tineye.com and we will make sure you get one lickety-split!
** photo Duncan Cumming
- TinEye finds WWII officer Lt. Col. Anna Walker Wilson
The Idéeplex was full of cheers when we heard Patrick Peccatte’s story about his search for the female officer in one of the many PhotosNormandie photos (a project to discuss and improve images description on WW2 historical photos).Long a mystery to him and his fellow WWII historians, Patrick used TinEye to see if he could learn more about the officer in the photo.
The result? With just one search, and in just a few seconds, TinEye located the identical photo in Mattie E. Treadwell’s book The Women’s Army Corps, published in 1954! Finally, a name! Lt. Col. Anna Walker Wilson was the very first WAC to arrive in the European Theater of Operations. It is nice to meet you, Lt. Col. Wilson!
We can’t tell you how exciting it is to see the amazing ways our community is using TinEye!
These are fantastic results, even though our index is still small. But it is growing and we believe TinEye is going to change how the world searches for images.
Welcome historians and history buffs to our growing TinEye community!
- TinEye happiness at deviantART!
Hello new friends at deviantART!
It was exciting to find out that Paula and our deviant fans are loving TinEye. We love your photos too!
We are listening to you and working hard at growing the index and adding cool new features to TinEye! It is great to hear all the awesome things you have to say so far:
evile33: “That thing blows me away…”
kkart: “This thing is INCREDIBLE!”
sometimes121: “Amazing .. I really needed this kind of search ..”
“That is news worthy indeed.” We think so! Thanks!
Keep the comments and suggestions coming, we love to hear from you.
We are approving TinEye invites as quickly as we can. If you haven’t received yours or haven’t requested an invitation yet come and visit us at tineye.com! Chop, chop! We’re waiting for you!
- We love TinEye fans (and their videos)!
TinEye’s community is growing fast!
Our new friend, professional photographer Yanik Chauvin, has a fantastic blog (and several photography sites too!) where he shares tips, product reviews and photography-related tutorials.
We were excited to read Yanik’s recent post about TinEye - it is a hit around the Idéeplex!
We enjoyed it so much we wanted to make sure all of our friends had a chance to read the interview and see the video too.
Thanks Yanik, we are thrilled that our growing community includes creative folks like you!
- Thank you TinEye Community!
It’s been a busy week here at Idée and an even busier one for TinEye! Since our TinEye beta launched, we’ve had users from all over the globe trying out our image search engine, providing feedback and sharing their results! And we have to say: we love you, we love your feedback and we are working super hard on the next release.
TinEye has gone around the world and made some incredible friends in the US, Canada, Japan, Hungary, China, Germany, Italy, France and the UK to just name a few countries! So we want to thank you all from the bottom of our (robot) heart!
We found out that we have an amazing group of TinEye fans in Hungary at the Stock.Xchng forum, lead by photographer Cris DeRaud. It is great for us to see TinEye helping photographers locate how and where their images are being used!
In their words: “This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” Amen!
Gareth and the great folks at bit-tech took some time to check out TinEye and we were thrilled to know that one of the UK’s leading tech review sites really dig us. Thanks guys!
Popping over to the British Isles, we heard from David Hoffmann of the Editorial Photographers United Kingdom and Ireland, who said “This is very impressive…this is a real breakthrough.” We could not agree more!
Photographer Robert Kneschke, from Germany, used TinEye to find unlicensed copies of his images in his first searches with our little tiny image index. Don’t worry folks: the image index will be growing very soon!
On to Italy where a blogger at Giavasan described TinEye as “a new search engine for images that kicks ass” and said it is “literally a dream come true.” Wow, we feel the same way! We’re glad you liked the simple and intuitive interface, quick search results and the Firefox plug-in too! Grazie, siamo contenti vedere cosi tanto d’interesse nel prodotto!
Nearer to home - that’s Canada for all you visitors! - the forums at iStockPhoto have been buzzing with news about TinEye. All good.
Susan’s highlighted some great uses for TinEye and we are greatful: “It has the potential to be hugely useful once coverage is more complete, especially to image producers and their agencies who want to keep tight control on where and how their images are used. Very useful for image purchasers too considering web usage of an image - they could check pretty easily who else is using it and for what purposes to make sure there aren’t any unforeseen and potentially embarrassing overlaps in the same market.”
More TinEye ’sightings’ from around the web? TinEye was discussed during a Canadian podcast and profiled in the National Post too!
We want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts because without you all these long nights would not make sense. Stay tuned for more TinEye goodness to come your way. If you have not requested your TinEye invitation all we have for you is a single question: What - are - you - waiting - for?
- Business News Network (BNN) features TinEye
We were excited when Canada’s only all business specialty channel, the Business News Network (BNN), picked up the TinEye story and featured it on After Hours May 6th.We were even more excited when they asked us back to do another segment! Leila Boujnane, our CEO, was in studio with Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell on Friday, May 9th to talk about TinEye and the exciting things happening at Idée!
You can watch the five minute segment on Business News Network or pop by our website, we’ll have the link for you in the Press and Events section. Fast forward to 41:20 for the piece.
- Spring in Toronto means ‘mesh’ is in the air!
Interested in learning “How to Demo Like a Demon“? If your answer is yes, you should sign up for meshU this year!
Our CEO Leila Boujnane and David Crow, User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft, have teamed up for what is sure to be an exciting and informative session as part of three learning streams at the first ever meshU on Tuesday, May 20th.What is meshU?
meshU is a one-day event featuring small, focused workshops by those who have earned their stripes in the startup game; people who can talk knowledgeably about everything from interface design to using Amazon’s S3 distributed server network. The mesh organizers hope this addition to the mesh conference will meet a growing need in Toronto for practical, down-to-earth information about tools, knowledge and expertise for startups, web designers and developers of all kinds. meshU will be held the day before the mesh conference, and will be happening at the MaRS Collaboration Centre in downtown Toronto.
As always, the team behind mesh, Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Mike McDerment, Rob Hyndman and Stuart MacDonald have brought together the best and brightest to present! With folks like Daniel Burka (Digg, Pownce), Kevin Hale (Infinity Box Inc, Wufoo) and Avi Bryant from Dabble DB, meshU is sure to be an amazing addition to the mesh experience.
Tickets are available online at eventbrite. The helpful folks at mesh are also available to answer questions or tell you a bit more about mesh and meshU. Mike McDerment is the right fellow for the job and he can be reached at mike[at]meshconference.com or call (647) 204-380.
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