Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

“ImageSnippets™ is a system for creating structured, transportable metadata for your images. It can be used as a digital asset management tool as well as an image/metadata publishing platform.” Take a look at the help pages, and read Margaret Warren’s post introducing ImageSnippets to the iptc-photometadata Yahoo! Group – a new system which can help…

Richard Wallis – Putting Linked Data on the Map: “Linked Data is just there – without the need for an API the raw data (described in RDF) is ‘just there to consume’. With only standard [http] web protocols, you can get the data for an entity in their dataset by just doing a http GET…

Today, searching the Web for an image that you’re allowed to use in public (either at no cost or after paying a license fee) is a suboptimal experience. Web search engines Google or Bing turn up images with unclear rights or in bad quality. Specialized “silos” like Getty Images or iStock Photos work well for…

David Diamond on CMSWire – Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop: “So what went wrong with the DAM industry? Where is the explosive growth? The IPOs? […] DAM vendors lack vision. Just as one could argue that PayPal should have been a product of Western Union, it’s easy to argue that DropBox and Google…

Cameron Morrissey on great leaders – Diary Entry #117 – Jump Under the Bus: “Any mistake in their area of oversight is their fault – They should have seen it coming, should have prepared better, should have audited work better, or should have set up better processes. They understand that there is always something they…

Seth Godin – Lead up: “We have an astonishing amount of freedom at work. Not just the freedom to call meetings, make phone calls and pitch ideas, but yes, the freedom to quit, to find a new gig, to pick the clients we’re going to take on and to decide how we’re going to deal…