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isk-daemon is an open
source standalone server and library capable of adding content-based
(visual) image searching to any
image related website or software.

We‘ve been
developing content-based image querying systems and databases for some time and are now
looking for ways to improve the adoption of such technology. Please let us know if you can
benefit from it and need some help getting it to work for you.

Featured Flickr Applications




1. Flickr Related Tag Browser from AirTight
   Interactive: An engaging visual way to explore tagged photos.
   
2. Color
   Fields Experimental Colr Pickr from Jim Bumgardner: Pick a color and adjust
   for brightness to find photos that are just the shade you want.
   
3. Photos on maps! Flickr World Map from allthegoodness.com—explore
   the world in this Flash application, sightseeing via latitude-longitude encoded
   photos; and Geobloggers by Dan Catt, Flickr photos (and more)
   plotted to GoogleMaps.
See more third party Flickr
applications on the Flickr Services page.

A tag is a short piece of text that users can attach to photos.
Flickr users typically search on photos with a particular tag ("all photos with
the tag cutepuppies") or photos with a particular tag that belong
to a particular user ("all photos belong to jsmith with the tag
campingtrip"). The Flickr API can retrieve tags for users and
photos, which you can then use to construct URLs to particular photos or photo
groups.

Key methods: flickr.photos.setTags, flickr.photos.removeTag, flickr.tags.getListPhoto, flickr.photos.getListUser

currently plan to implement a fee system with the following structure:



• Fees will be determined based on the number and type of API
  requests made per day
  
• We are no longer restricting developers from monetizing their
  products using third-party platforms
  
• Fees will be determined using a unit system
  
• Units for Web, News, and Image BOSS API calls will be incurred
  based on the last result requested. For example, an API call requesting results
  91-100 is the same cost as one requesting results 1-100
  
• Developers may request up to 1000 results in a single API call
  
  
• Units will cost $.10
  
• Developers will receive 30 units per day for free of
  charge

BOSS is currently offered to developers free of charge. In the near future,
we plan to introduce a fee structure, though we will continue to offer free API
access below a certain query-per-day threshold. For more information on BOSS API
fees, please click here.

Relatively new to the game is DocSearcher 3.88, a desktop search and indexing
tool written entirely in Java. DocSearcher 3.88 uses several open source
programming tools -- the PDF Box, Lucene and POI Apache APIs -- to search and
index many of the most common types of documents. The tool supports searching
HTML, Word, Excel, RTF, PDF, OpenOffice/StarOffice and plain-text documents, and
it performs searches within the body or supported metadata (document name,
author, etc.) for documents that support it.

• Addictomatic
  
  Addictomatic searches a wide range of live sites including blogs,
  micro-blogs, news and video. Search results are displayed in your own custom
  page.  While you can’t get an RSS feed of your search, you can bookmark
  it.
  
  
• monitorThis
  
  With MonitorThis you can search in 26 different search engine feeds at the
  same time including blogs, microblogs and more.
  
  
• Samepoint
  
  Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are
  talking about. It categorizes Social Mentions, Discussion Points, Bookmarks,
  Wikis, Network,s B2B Networks, Groups, Life Casting, MicroBlogs, Reviews,
  Podcasts, Documents, Video, Images, News and Web. There are tabs that let you
  drill down to results for each category.
  
  
• Social Mention
  
  Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated
  content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and
  microblogging services.
  
  
• WhosTalkin?
  
  WhosTalking is a social media search tool that allows users to search
  for conversations on multiple social media sites surrounding the topics that
  they care about most.
  
  
• Nsyght
  
  nsyght is a social search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your
  friends
  
  
• Pipes: Social Media Firehose
  
  This is a social media search for tracking brand or product mentions on a
  slew of social media sites, including flickr, twitter, friendfeed, digg etc. It
  taps into their search APIs directly, so it’s much more immediate and
  comprehensive than say, Google alerts.
  
  
• Scour
  
  Scour is a next generation search engine with Google/Yahoo/MSN results and
  user comments all on one page. Users get rewarded for using it by collecting
  points with every search, comment and vote. The points are redeemable for Visa
  gift cards.
  
  
• OneRiot.com - Find the Pulse of the Web
  
  OneRiot is a social search engine that indexes web pages based on their
  current popularity with its users, thus focusing on newest and most popular
  results for a search query rather than a comprehensive overview of the archived
  web. The ranking is based on input from OneRiot users who have installed the
  company’s browser extension called the “PulseChecker.”
  
  
• Delver -
  Search Your World
  
  Delver is an intelligent social search engine that enables you to find,
  experience and benefit from the wealth of information created and referenced by
  your own social world.
  
  
• Serph —
  Track buzz in real time.
  
  Serph is a search engine that you can use to find out what people are
  saying on the web right now across various sites including: Technorati, Digg,
  YouTube, Flickr, Google Blog Search, Bloglines, and Newsvine.
  
  
• Keotag
  
  Search engine that allows you to search various social media sites
  (delicious, facebook, twitter, etc) by tags.
  
  
• Aardvark
  
  Aardvark dubbed by CNET as “social search meets instant messaging.” You
  send a query to Aardvark via your instant-messenger client. The system
  determines which people in your network (friends and friends of friends) might
  be able to answer your question, sends them messages, and then forwards you
  their replies