In this video Beet.tv speaks to Hany Farid, computer science professor at Dartmouth College in the USA, about the technology he’s developed for identifying fake photographs:
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Iwantmycameraback.com is inviting photographers to submit the details of lost or stolen camera equipment to its online database.
Users can list the brand, model and serial number of equipment on the site, allowing prospective buyers to check that gear on offer doesn’t belong to someone else.
An RSS feed of new entries to the database has also been set up.
Tags: Iwantmycameraback.com, online database, stolen camera equipmentDutch newspaper DAG handed out 1000s of disposable cameras to its readers today, the Newspaper Innovation blog reports.
Recipients have been asked to take one photo with the camera and then pass it on. The last person should return the camera to the paper for the pics to be developed.
A rough translation from the site suggests the aim is to get a snapshot of 24 hours from 27 (the number of pictures on the film) different perspectives.
The paper will then publish some of the photos with the best winning a prize - announced on October 1.
Tags: DAGOnline publishers will now have free access to licensed images from celebrity news agency Splash News, as the agency teams up with image technology firm PicScout.
Using PicScout’s PicApp tool, Splash hopes the deal will address the concerns of content owners and photographers about copyright and use of material online
“Making Splash content available through PicApp offers an innovative way for thousands of blog sites to enter the content licence market by utilizing our images with PicApp’s ad-funded technologies and in turn, exposes our rich database of images to millions of people. Splash teams with PicApp to reduce online piracy and to create a new media revenue stream for its contributors,” said Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash News, in a press release.
An RSS feature on PicApp allows users to set up automated criteria for the images they want with an alert sent to them when this material becomes available.
Tags: Gary Morgan, PicScout, Splash NewsAgence France-Presse (AFP) has retracted a photo of Iranian missile tests published this morning, stating the image had been ‘apparently digitally altered’ by Iran’s state media, the New York Times’ Lede section reports.
It was too late for the print editions of the LA Times, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune and others, who ran the pic on the front page, and for the BBC, New York Times and Yahoo News websites.
Below - spot the difference between 1) the AFP’s image…
…and 2) an image later obtained by the Associated Press:
According to the Lede’s report, the agency said the fourth missile may have been added to mask a grounded missile that failed to launch during the test.
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, BBC, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, LA Times, new york times, the New York Times, YahooGetty Images is to collaborate with Yahoo-owned image-sharing site Flickr to harness the potential of the site’s members.
Through the partnership Getty will invite Flickr members to contribute their images to a ‘Flickr branded collection’ on the agency’s website. Pics in this collection will then be made available for licensing by Getty’s clients.
Editors from Getty will select the members and the two companies are currently working on online tools for contacting Flickr users.
Members who chose to submit their images to the collection will hand over exclusive commercial rights of the photos to Getty.
“Flickr members will benefit from Getty Images’ global sales and distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images’ expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content. Getty Images’ customers will benefit from the fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr’s global community,” a release from Yahoo said.
A launch date for the collection is yet to be announced.
Tags: Getty ImagesAudio-visual: Slideshows are quick and easy to get on your newspaper website. Download soundslides.com (costs just a few dollars) and upload shows with audio commentary in Flash format. Tipster: Oliver Luft
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Tags: Journalism.co.uk, Oliver LuftWe give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today’s candidate is Skitch.com - an easy way to upload your images.
1) Who are you and what’s it all about?
I’m Mark Pearson and I work for plasq - a company of about 10 people spread around the globe.
We work to make fun, intuitive and expressive software, and are best known for “Comic Life”, an application which makes it easy to turn your digital photos into photo comics.
We’ve now developed Skitch and Skitch.com:
2) Why would this be useful to a journalist?
Skitch makes the screen grabbing process enjoyable and very fast.
Journalists involved in the tech industry often need to take many screenshots. Skitch supports many common formats including TIFF, which publishers often need for magazines. If the journalist produces content for online use, jpg and png are available too.
3) Is this it, or is there more to come?
We are just getting started! We recently released two new features to allow you to email images to Skitch.com as well as send images hosted on Skitch.com to twitter.
Combine these two features and you can send images from your camera phone to Skitch.com then automatically have them appear on twitter.
4) Why are you doing this?
To improve and speed up sharing images with others.
5) What does it cost to use it?
Currently while in beta, it is free.
6) How will you make it pay?
We haven’t announced our pricing yet.
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