March 25, 2003
*Fotonotes: The cool new app*
Fotonotes: The cool new app
Greg Elin has rolled out his new tool, Fotonotes annotation of JPEG files with metadata. It allows you to embed stories in a picture and, as you roll your mouse over the image, sections are highlighted and the text appears. Dan Gillmor gives Fotonotes a rave here, and demontrates how the image annotation works.
Now, think about how Fotonotes can be used to embed metadata in images so that they can be related by database functionality. This picture of Dan Bricklin could be related to other pictures of Dan, as well as Mitch Kapor, who is sitting in the background. Want to know if people frequently appear together? Google their names and get this picture and others, such as from PC Forum's site.
Then there is a really wonderful market in putting stories in images for family, workgroup collaboration and so forth. We recently cleaned out my wife's family warehouse and found a lot of old photos about which we know almost nothing. If we'd found digital images with stories written by Kiera's grandmother ("This is Aunt Bessie, who lost her shoes when coyotes ran off with them during the night.") we'd know a lot more and be able to enjoy them more than we do just staring at them and wondering who are these strangers in sepiatone?
Mitch says "Check it out." Fotonotes
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at March 25, 2003 02:23 PM | TrackBack