Janos P Toth is @tjp
Founder of PicFog quick image search. Also great at clicking.This is a real blog. Sign up to the feeds.
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PicFog, albeit briefly, mentioned in an actual paper. My impact factor is rocketing.
PicFog press - May 2010
A selection of PicFog mentions from the last month. I’ll try to make this section regular.
- PicFog was mentioned in the Swiss radio station DRS 3 in the programme called ‘DRS 3 Digital’. Listen to it here.
- The Dutch newspaper Volkskrant wasted two pages on silly twitter pictures - the article is titled Picfog brengt orde in fotomist op Twitter which I believe means “Picfog brings order to photo fog on Twitter”.
- DigitalLiving.ch article: PicFog: die Welt in Bildern, aka. “PicFog: the world in pictures”. They also mention we’re web 2.0, which is an extra Brucie Bonus point.
- There was a quick mention in c’t, a German computer magazine.
- Fotointern.ch: PicFog: Unglaublich, was alles auf Twitter hochgeladen wird (PicFog: Incredibly, all of which will be uploaded on Twitter)
- Social media blog Thoughtpick raises the issue of privacy about PicFog - they may have a point, but I kind of like the clean privacy strategy of Twitter.
- Ah, and this is exciting - PicFog was even mentioned in my home country. “Real-time pictures from the twitter fog”, or Real-time képek a twitter-ködből in the ultimate tounge-twister language, Hungarian.
What a month!
PicFog got featured in Volkskrant Netherlands newspaper - I believe, my Dutch is a bit rusty. Hello, new PicFogians :).
PicFog on paper
In the papers, rather. It took a while to obtain a copy, but here we go - a nice little article in the french newspaper Liberation. They have a six-figure circulation, so even though it’s page twentysomething, I think it worths bragging about. Favorite part: the author describes me as a ‘developer anglais’. Ha!
Wired uses PicFog to show #eclipse images.
— The Eclipse, as Seen by the People (With Flickr Accounts) | Wired Science | Wired.com
Via Twitter, I came across PicFog, which is a real-time service pulling photos from Twitter and Twitpic, and there are several hundred photos of the fire there too. It’s odd – there’s been plenty of talk of crowdsourcing and citizen journalism taking over from traditional news media, but I think this is the first time I’ve watched a news story happen without ever going near a newspaper or news website – my info has come, thus far, entirely from user-generated content on social networking sites.
— The Soho fire: a social media news event (wired.co.uk)
