Finally!! We’ve released version 2.0 of  Tagcow with a brand new tagging template for our consumer users that seriously kicks butt! The new template really pushes our image tagging system to identify unique objects, create minimum tag sets and focus on the emotional aspects of the image as it’s being tagged.  The results of the update trump any automatic object recognition system by decades.

Checkout the tags on this simple photo of me and Anakin…

unique_attributes:
Watching|Happiness|Thinking|Sitting
main_theme:
Boy and man
image_type:
photo
color_type:
color
key_objects:
Boy|Man|Drums|

and a simple pic of me playing vids with Anakin produced these tags:

main_theme:
Playing video game
color_type:
color
unique_attributes:
concentration|relaxation|serious|family
key_objects:
Man|Young Boy|Couch|Game controllers
image_type:
photo

We are getting very good and consistent results from the new template. The best news is that with these improvements we’ve actually lowered the cost of our consumer description tagging service from 2.5 cents per image to 2 cents per image and we still offer a money back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with the results of our service. What we’re working on next for our consumer service are more custom controls allowing users to control their tagging to the very last detail. Including whether or not to use quotes to separate tags or to include common misspellings and stemming in your tagging results.

Don’t count Tagcow out! As a very prominant venture partner recently said, someone is going to solve the image tagging problem for consumers and it’s most likely going to be Tagcow. Umm…mostly likely?

We pushed a major release in late March. This release included a system stability upgrade. Ironically, this release also included a devious little bug that messed up our image statuses. This lead many of our customers to believe that their images were “stuck” in the tagging process. This was a very illusive bug. Our engineers worked many hours to resolve this issue and fix the images that were effected.

All is working smoothly again. Thanks for your patience.

Regards,
Matt Nichols, CTO

This has been an exciting year for us at TagCow already. In March, we released the largest set of new features since our launch in 2008. These improvements include:

• A new customer dashboard
• Improved navigation
• Publicly available API
• System reliability improvements
• The official launch of our Content Filtering product

A recent follow-on release included a major upgrade to our tagging process. This has already started to produce higher quality taggings for our customers.

We have many great new features planned. I’ll follow up with a sneak peak post about some of the features that we have planned for the coming months. Stay tuned!

Regards,
Matt Nichols, CTO