Three New sites that have been brewing and are still in testing phase


http://www.fotonauts.com/

a Wikipedia of pictures - But it does more than that. It adds data from Wikipedia, Google Maps, and other places to photo albums and then publishes those albums as Web pages with one click of a button.

You can add photos from your desktop or the various existing photo-sharing services such as Flickr and Picasa or add Creative Commons photos taken by other people to each album. There is also a social element in that you can follow other “fotonauts” or specific Web albums via an event stream.

http://www.gazopa.com

Gazopa uses proprietary image analytics technology to extract information such as color and shape from images. It then identifies similar pictures from a pool of about 50 million different images found around the web.

Gazopa’s big idea is to render keywords obsolete when it comes to image search. Instead of typing search terms, Gazopa’s visual engine lets users upload their own images or right-click on ones found on any webpage.


http://www.videosurf.com/

Searching video - you might want to search for a scene in a particular show. You can drill down to the show, and then are presented with thumbnails of all of the characters, left to right at the top of the screen by level of importance. By clicking on a character, you get all the scenes in which that character appears, as well as related scenes.