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TOP NEWS - THE FUTURE IMAGE REPORT SPOTLIGHT


1/19/2008

FLICKR GOES TO CONGRESS

The Library of Congress has started a pilot project with Flickr, Yahoo's photo-sharing service.

The Library will upload more than 3,000 photos from two popular collections -- images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist -- to a Flickr page -- and then let members tag, comment and make notes on the images.

The goal of the project is to "ensure better and better access to our collections, and ...that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity," says the Library of Congress on a blog entry. [The complete collection holds more than 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials.]

Flickr says this is but the first incarnation of its own larger project called "The Commons," noting that "There are two main aims to The Commons project... to increase exposure to the amazing content currently held in the public collections of civic institutions around the world, and to facilitate the collection of general knowledge about these collections, with the hope that this information can feed back into the catalogues, making them richer and easier to search."


In this Week's Future Image Weekly Briefing

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: TOP STORIES

Apple's TV "HD format"

Flickr goes to Congress

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING
Online video popularity almost doubles
Camera-phone can control computer in 3D
Mobile Bucket
Helio markets Mysto
Hacker server script disguised as image file

DIGITAL CAMERAS
China camera sales rise
Under the sea
Unfashionable spy cams
Toddler cam

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES
FotoNation checks for faces and smiles
Kopin shrinks its SVGA microdiplay
Panasonic to boost CCD production
You are sitting too close!
Smaller security camera

INDUSTRY UPDATES
Epson throws short, wide
Printroom frees pro photographer tools
ExpressDigital goes green
HP printer advances color
Easier Photo Geo tagging



In this Month's Edition of The Future Image Report

The Future Image Report
Contents for October 2007
[Available now at www.futureimage.com]

This 24-page edition -- our longest ever! -- features our coverage of the 6Sight Future of Imaging conference, with edited and condensed versions of a few of the key panels and presentations.

Transformations in Imaging:

6Sight chairman Alexis Gerard examines the forces effecting photography.

Adobe: Photoshop online works with the Web.:

HP Improves artifact imaging:

Putting computational imaging to work.

Refocus captures the light field:

Facial expression recognition and synthesis:

Seam carving makes photography flexible:

Analyst Panel: Debating the future of photography:

Sensors and cell phones::

Keynote from Philippe Khan