Hey guys,
We finally, sort of, got our app out the door and launched in the wee hours of the morning.
>>> http://ilovephotos.com
Sadly we sort of went the "Hollywood" launch and "released" at Demofall 2008 last week... when our stuff wasn't finished. I can't count on the hands in one elementary school the number of red bulls and cigarettes (non smoker) that I have consumed in the past week or two. Too many.
Anyway, we've put it out in the wild and I would love to hear any sort of feedback you guys might have on the website and our desktop app. SORRY! but our app is OS X only at the moment. We do have plans to go onto other platforms, but for now the rest of the world is stuck using our online lightweight version of the app, which is a flash app on our website.
It's an app created to make organizing and sharing photos easier. We use facial detection (not recognition, we just find faces, or try too =]) to make tagging your photos faster and more fun. Everything is a "visual tag" rather than just a bit of text. A tag doesn't even need to have text associated with it.
We hope to leverage the data on who is in each photo do do a lot of various things. Slideshows become smarter, the most obvious improvement being with a ken burns type of effect the faces in the photo are the focus rather than getting cut off. We can also observe relationships created by photos, etc... some pretty cool stuff. Sharing becomes easier too because you can simply, in a native drag-drop manner, select some photos and drag in some people to share those with, click a button, and the rest is history.
All you mac users out there, give it a shot! I hope you like it! It's certainly beta, it certainly has some problems, but we think it's in a pretty good place right now :)
Direct download for the lazy is -> http://static.ilovephotos.com/download/iLovePhotos.dmg
P.S. It's all Django on the back end :) Nginx servin' it up.