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Re: "fileless" paradigm

 

Well if we are going to get into tagging photos, why not just do what Apple
did with iPhoto. Implement a facial recognition software
that prompts you to tag a face once, then it will tag all photos containing
that face with the appropriate words.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:35 PM, fain182 <fain182@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Now imagine Jane has a new camera and goes on 4 vacations per year.
> > On each vacation, Jane takes several hundred shots.
> > After 3 years, Jane has 4300 photos she made all by herself, he Uncle's
> 200
> > wedding photos not even included.
> > As she tries to find "that picture with Auntie Mabel on that rock" from
> one
> > of the vacations, she is confronted with 1200 photos to go through.
> > Now she complains: "darn, i wish i could just tell the computer to show
> me
> > photos of Auntie Mabel".
> and in your opinion Jane would tag every of the 4300 photos with all
> the name of the people in the photo?
> I don't think that manual tagging will be successful, can be an
> overhead more then an help..
>
> anyway "fileless paradigm" is a terrible name, for speaking about
> alternatives way to navigate between files.. maybe "pathless" is
> better..
>
> --
> pietro
>
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