Almost as good as a jetpack: Tineye, shazam, snaptell #blogjune video post 5

Tonight for my week of video blogging I used Camtasia to create a screencast showing a tool that locates images on the web – where you start with the picture and then use Tineye to find other information about it.

Twenty years ago I worked in a library that had three filing cabinets full of art slides – huge numbers of them that needed to be filed each night. If you explained a tool like Tineye to my younger self, I think she would have predicted that jetpacks and flying cars were more likely by 2011.

Here is the screencast: Tineye is my flying jetpack. It looks best in full screen mode.

Sites mentioned in the screencast:

• Tineye
• Shazam
• Snaptell iPhone ap
• Cindi Trainor’s image, Day 106 – I am a librarian
• David Ileff’s image of the LaTrobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria , as used in the Wikipedia entry for the library
• The Chinese site that reused David Ileff’s image

Post number 21 for #blogjune 2011.

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