A new Yahoo Photos beta was announced today at Demo. Presenter Will Aldrich said that, to date, this popular service has 3 million unique users — two times its closest competitor — with some two billion photos stored. So, said Aldrich, “What better time to blow up the product and start from scratch?” What the new beta is about is making the UI better, as well as bringing tagging and metadata to the mass audience. Read: building on the success of Flickr, which Yahoo acquired last year. Features mentioned by Aldrich include the introduction of a “smart album” feature, and using photos to initiate IM.

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Oh, wow, as a guy who’s just getting into shooting cell phone pix (I’m a little slow…), with my new Moto RAZR along for this trip, I can’t help but get excited about Vizrea and SmileBox. In my book, the former gets the best skit award (based on “24”), and the latter the best logo and interface award, very appropriate for the consumer mass-audience. Both are really cool services.

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Check out Nexidia Media Search….it makes any spoken word instantly searchable. This is technology that’s been in use in the government intelligence community, and is now being commercialized. (One of its backers has been SAIC.) The demos were quite impressive, finding results that other search methods, looking for meta data, could never find.

Tag: Demo 2006