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In TechCrunch-style blogs, every post has a large image at top (often just a stock photo) that's also used to represent the post as a thumbnail in post lists.
by dangrossman 15y ago
In TechCrunch-style blogs, every post has a large image at top (often just a stock photo) that's also used to represent the post as a thumbnail in post lists.
You could automate providing these images for new posts by mashing up this annotated database of CC-licensed images with the OpenCalais API. OpenCalais analyzes text to extract named entities (companies, technologies, people, even social tag recommendations) -- so match those terms with the image database til you get a hit and you've got an image with no work done by the author.
Maybe something I'll play with later tonight.
I wrote a PHP wrapper for the OpenCalais API some years ago. https://github.com/dangrossman/PHP-OpenCalais https://github.com/dangrossman/PHP-OpenCalais
- cakeface 15y agoFor an example of how this is done with google images check out this project http://logolifter.com/ http://logolifter.com/
- dangrossman 15y agoAm I missing something or is this site specifically designed to enable copyright infringement? I don't think the little disclaimer saves it. Contributory infringement is illegal in the US, and this tool lifts images from Google Image Search, 99.9% of which are not licensed for distribution. If this is your site, I'd consider replacing the image source with something like Flickr whose API which supports search-by-license.
- PaulHoule 15y agoGoogle Image Search indexes Ookaboo, not the other way around. All of the images were published under a public domain or creative commons image elsewhere; there is a small probability that this information is incorrect, in which case we remove images as per DMCA
- dangrossman 15y agoHi Paul. I was referring to LogoLifter, the comment I replied to, not Ookaboo. LogoLifter's images are from Google Image Search, not from Ookaboo.
- CWIZO 15y agoOr you could use Zemanta: http://www.zemanta.com/ http://www.zemanta.com/