- While the stock photo industry was politely described as "what we call a niche industry", revenues in the User-Generated Content business are much more fun:
- Last week PicScout´s Picapp.com service was unveiled.
- Yesterday Photobucket announced the Digg integration featuring popular photos and the launch of Digg´s dedicated images section:
"That´s where Idée´s image recognition technology comes into play: in preparing to launch a dedicated images section, Digg recognized that they needed to ensure duplicate images are identified.
Idée´s image recognition technology is used for Digg´s dedicated images section to compare each newly submitted image to potentially hundreds of thousands of previously submitted ones.
Details on the company´s blog: Idée Inc brings image de-duplication to Digg.
Related:
• Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection (Kevin Rose, Digg founder)
- Reorganization at The Associated Press:
The new generation of consumers has completely different habits. The company is also moving toward an all-digital platform that it calls the "Digital Cooperative".
Editor´s Weblog/NYT.
