Image annotation
Greg Elin is at it again. Fotonotes is now a Wiki environment:
to discuss an open specification for image region annotation and managing photos as a plurality of objects.
Greg is also alpha previewing his FNServer framework - which kind of finally exposes his business model strategy.
You see Greg has been proselytizing and spreading the notion of hot spots on photos, standards for photos and what happens when you start interconnecting imagery with ideas and conversations. Best of all - Greg has been giving away these ideas. Folks like Flickr picked up on that - it’s one of the coolio features Flickr supports.
But when you see these hot spots on images, you immediately say “dam, if we had a hypermedia server, a Wiki and a way to author to connect images to links to memes to dyanmic processes - man oh man - we’d be there.”
Well Greg is working on that. I’ll leave it up to him to explain - but for now - let’s just say “Flickr in a box, hypermedia server thingie” technology.
And that’s what you pay Greg for - his servers. Which I assume he’ll run some free public versions of - but which any enterprise, media, or serious anybody would want the industrial strength version of. I know we certainly will!
Right on to Greg - again.
