- Edited interview with iStock´s Kelly Thompson:
- Question: "Beyond that, will you still look for other niches to get into?"
- Answer: "We have a couple of pretty game-changing things that we can’t really talk about yet... . I think they stand to fundamentally change the stock industry; not to sound too over-the-top, but some of the things we´re introducing could change the stock industry as much as microstock did in the early days."
Article by Australia´s smartcompany in the "Lunch with an entrepreneur" series.
Interview by James Thomson as MP3 file (5.8 MB/17 min.).
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On Tuesday, local tech startup Idée Inc. will
publicly launch a search engine [TinEye] that its co-founders boldly say will do
the same with images as what Google Inc. does with text. [...]
With a small, dedicated staff and several years of R&D work, Idée
has managed to develop a set of algorithms that takes an image,
compares it to about a half-billion indexed pictures, and returns a
list of similar looking pictures along with their online URLs within
milliseconds. [...]
The service could be a blessing
for publishers, brand marketers and copyright compliance officers who
want to track how products are being distributed on the Web. [...]
Idée's [other] existing service is used by about two dozen
clients which tracks down publishers who use their copyrighted pictures
and bills them accordingly. The service brings in about $15,000 to
$75,000 per client and is growing at a rate of about 10 new customers
per month.
Continue reading "Idée Inc Launches Image Search Engine TinEye" »
- Celeb pic agency Splash in MSN web video deal:
British-owned US celeb news agency Splash News has launched an online "paparazzi" web TV programme about celebrities in four languages for Microsoft. The agency is shooting and editing three daily three-minute clips. Microsoft and Splash are sharing advertising revenue on the project, and plans are being drawn up to expand the programme worldwide.
Splash chief executive Gary Morgan, said: "There is a severe lack of edgy Hollywood magazine shows on any of the media platforms."
Press Gazette.
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Many photographers complain these days that they see their pictures published in
very important newspapers and that they don´t get paid for the usage.
What
they do is that they call the agencies which distribute their pictures and ask
for some explanation. Most of the times these agencies don´t know anything
about the usage, so they call the publication and after some discussion
they decide to bill the unauthorized usage.
Continue reading "Pino Granta: Everybody wins but not the photographers" »
- EU Google Competitor Gets $165 million Kick Start:
Theseus, a German based project that is aiming to develop "the world’s
most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation
Internet" will receive a cash injection of $165 million from the
German Government [...]
According to an AP report, the German Government will initially fund
Siemens AG, SAP AG, Deutsche Thomson oHG and EMPOLIS GmbH to kick start
the project [...] Theseus was inspired by a perceived need by European countries to challenge American hegemony on the internet by Google.
Like just about everything in the history of Europe, France and Germany
disagree. France is said to be discussing a similar subsidy plan with
the European Commission that is aiming to deliver $112 million to a
French Google competitor Quaero, a project previously supported by the
Germans, which is led by French video-technology company Thomson.
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