This has always been in the plans, and has been requested many times. Our customer API will allow developers to integrate the TagCow.com image and photo tagging service into their applications. We’ll also introduce reseller rates that will allow developers to purchase our service at a discounted rate. If you are interested in participating in the TagCow.com API Beta program please email mnichols@tagcow.com.
You didn’t think we’d be left out of the excitement around the next gen iPhone platform did you? Our application will allow users to associate their iPhone with their tagcow account allowing their iPhone photo gallery to be automatically tagged. The application will also allow users to search for photos using their tag cloud to quickly find and share photos. This is currently planned for release in August.
Our worker platform will augment our Mechanical Turk implementation by allowing 3rd party developers and worker networks to plug directly into our platform and request/process image and photo tagging work. There’s already 1 major web 2.0 site that has implemented our API and is looking to have their users tag our images as a way to earn credits on for their system…oh the implications!
A note on image tagging templates…
Our enterprise image tagging service has taught us a lot about how we should extend our consumer service. When a large e-commerce company engages us in a significant (60,000 – 10 million) image tagging job the challenge is in understanding their taxonomy and how to abstract that into a template that can drive quality image tagging results. We’ve become really good at this and have recently realized that while each of our enterprise customer seems to have a different reason for tagging their images and a unique taxonomy the concept of “image tagging templates” extends to our consumer service. In fact we can improve our image tagging quality by leaps and bounds by creating a handful of templates that our consumer image tagging clients can use – templates such as vacation, birthday, Christmas, wedding, Halloween and bar mitzvah.
Once we’ve implement the standard “image tagging templates” the next leap in quality and flexibility will come in the form of a “image tagging template wizard” that will allow clients to create and share their own templates.
BTW – If you’re interested in our Enterprise Image Tagging solution please call or e-mail me. You need this service if you are currently employing your own taggers or if you’re working on an SEO campaign and are just starting to think about how you might tag thousands or millions of images. We can do your tagging job faster and cheaper than anyone else.
Michael Droz, Chief Business Architect, mdroz@tagcow.com, (888) 860-3024