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Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

One of the most interesting things to come out of the continuing saga of Microsoft buying out Yahoo is a group of people that have banded together in a Flickr Photo Pool aptly named Microsoft Keep your Evil Grubby Hands off our Flickr.
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  • Pete Yodis

    1 year ago

    Josh,

    Take a look at Photosynthe from Microsoft. Its a development project and you can watch a demonstration on You tube or somewhere else. This might explain why they would be interested in Flickr, and using the data on Flickr to drive the models created from Photosynthe.

    Pete
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    true Pete. Photosynth is an interesting project and I've talked about using it to get 3D data. There was a presentation on Ted.com I believe that showed them already pulling photos from Flickr to build the models, but you won't see anything about it on the Photosynth website...yet. Thanks for mentioning that.
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  • Bruce Buck

    1 year ago

    Yes, muy interesante indeed (photosynth). Wonder what industry it would affect the most? Scanning/reverse engineering?
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  • Bob Sauber

    1 year ago

    As for me. I have no idea how MS could screw Flickr... In any case they will not be allowed to by Yahoo.
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  • Pete Yodis

    1 year ago

    Wonder what industry it would affect the most? Scanning/reverse engineering?

    I think we'll eventually see this coupled with Virtual Earth (similar to Google's Virtual Earth, but I would argue better). The virtual earth could begin to look very real and even more real as more people upload photos to the internet. As more pictures are taken and uploaded, photosynthe can use more data from the web to drive the data in Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth would be a system for making money via advertising as everyone would look to it for information (maybe web 3.0, 4.0,...??) I don't think they are looking to have really accurate scanning/reverse engineering apps come from photosynthe. I see no reason why they would kill Flickr. In fact if something like photosynthe could really take advantage of Flickr, then I would think Microsoft would try to improve and promote Flickr.
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    I agree Pete. A lot of the fear is from long time users that don't trust M$crosoft. It was a lot of the same fears when yahoo bought flickr. personally I not sure about the integration of microsoft live and yahoo service, email, business, groups, pipes. we will see.
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