- Interface Design and TinEye
Adelle from Web Design Ledger has a nice little post about interface design for login screens where our TinEye login screen is mentioned. Our goal in designing the TinEye interface was to make the user’s interaction as simple as possible. And a lof the the example’s that Adelle collected achieve exactly that. This is a wonderful compilation to inspire you in your next interface design development. Smashing magazine also has two great (old) posts with infinite resources web forms design patters part 1 and part 2. Enjoy!
- Honoring the Internet’s Best: The Webby Awards
I have been indicted into the Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and will be a judge in this year’s annual Webby Awards. For more than a decade, The Webby Awards (hailed as ‘The Oscars of the Internet’ by The New York Times) has been celebrating and discovering the most creative and innovative people and sites online. The Webby Awards recognizes the very best Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile sites and content created specifically for the Web.
And this year I am looking forward to being one of the judges. I will be in awesome company joining such members as Virgin Founder Richard Branson, musician David Bowie, Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake, The Huffington Post Founder Arianna Huffington and creator of ‘The Simpsons’ Matt Groening. The 13th Annual Webby Awards celebration will be in June 2009 in New York City. Last year’s events were emceed by Seth Myers of Saturday Night Live and Judah Friedlander of 30 Rock, and attended by over 800 industry luminaries and celebrities, including music legends David Byrne and will.i.am, Stephen Colbert, Michel Gondry, Lorne Michaels and Tim & Eric.
Looking forward to an exiciting evening with you all.
- Multicolr Fun
Every once in a while we get an email from someone who has played with our lab technologies and built something fun and exciting. Last month I received an email from my good friend Patrick and since then it has been sitting in my inbox begging for attention! I am such a delinquent when it comes to emails! But that said: Patrick has an awesome career: he spends his time building exciting project, exploring how technology can enhance people’s lives and experiences. You may have seen some of his projects around Toronto. Just recently he built the TXTris wall version 2 which was showcased during HoHoTo on Monday. It was awesome, and I know a few of us spent time sending Tweets just to see them scroll down the screens (some the tweets were not fit to print so we won’t be repeating those here!).
Patrick was inspired by our Multicolr search to build a little prototype: this prototype basically takes a stream from a webcam and picks out the dominant colours and passes them through our Multicolr Search to find photographs that match those colours. Very, very neat and you can view it here:
Colrfindr from Patrick Dinnen on Vimeo.
- TinEye to win?
Well, it has been a little while since our last post! We have been busy at the Ideeplex! More about that later…
Now, yesterday I came across a little announcement about an interactive advertising agency (Traction) launching a social media engagement initiative for Adobe – yes, a lot of words to basically say: Traction launched a facebook game that asks “fans” of the Adobe Students page on Facebook to decide if a presented image is real or fake. Ah! I thought to myself, if these students are smart, they will have heard about TinEye and they could ace those questions! Because as you know, TinEye is a reverse image search engine: give it an image and it will show you where that image is appearing on the web. So I went ahead and gave it a try. I am up for some fun during business hours!
The first couple of images had no hit on TinEye – TinEye is awesome but it can’t find images we have not indexed! he works hard but can’t perform miracles yet! The 3rd image was a match. Below is the image that you are presented with in the Facebook game, and if you TinEye this image you will find over 90 matches. If you have a TinEye login, you can see the full result set here (if you don’t have a login, go grab one, takes 10 seconds). Hard to fake wouldn’t you say?
So beware out there, TinEye is going to make image contest a little bit easier – for the players – and a little bit harder to develop well for all of you out there. Go on and play the game. Learn how to create fake image! and don’t let TinEye spoil your fun.
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