She was such a cute little photo before she went all fancy pants digital

**John Kasaian** · 27-Jul-2007, 08:08

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

What does it mean? Perhaps that your posted digi pix are now part of something greater. Awesum.

**Marko** · 27-Jul-2007, 08:34

The way I understand it, not just digi, but any posted pix. And not just pix.

It really is awesome. Great find, John.

**Ash** · 27-Jul-2007, 08:42

That is awesome.

Every LF (or MF/35mm) photographer in the world will need to contribute all their 'boring' landscape photo's of all the buildings in their town and travels. Pretty amazing.

**Jack Flesher** · 27-Jul-2007, 08:44

Incredible... My jaw did drop.

**jnantz** · 27-Jul-2007, 09:00

i wonder if there are copyright issues ...
i don't really want some bot to harvest my work
and use it without my consent ...
but then again, without digimark, would i ever know ?

**Antonio Corcuera** · 27-Jul-2007, 09:24

Absolutely amazing sofware. Thanks for sharing!

**Brian Ellis** · 27-Jul-2007, 10:08

Amazing! Thanks for letting us know about this.

**paulr** · 27-Jul-2007, 10:31

Reminds me of something from Borges ... the Library of Babel, in pictures.

Some day Google will probably do this with all the picture on the web. We won't even have to go outside anymore to see every inch of the earth.

**Gordon Moat** · 27-Jul-2007, 11:14

Google has attempted a few times to develop collections of data mined images, and fought a few legal battles in the process. I think that is the brief mention in this TED presentation about legal issues, though at present sites like Flickr seem to be a free-for-all without rights issues.

So this brings up content creation. I suppose there might be a reason for people or groups to develop images for usage in such technology, or even for Google Earth. Cities interested in tourism could contribute image content to drive such technology.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio