{"id":74,"date":"2006-09-01T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/09\/01\/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2015-04-05T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T18:03:33","slug":"friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, Cardinals… how we think the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

so last night I went over to visit my friends Josh and Ashley<\/a> at Ashley’s house on Carlsbad<\/a> off South Gravois. we sat on their
\nupper porch for a few hours talking<\/a> about crime in St. Louis, our run-ins with petty criminals, and attempted to call just about everyone in our mobile phones to offer an extra ticket to the Cardinals vs. Marlins game last night<\/a> at Busch Stadium. There weren’t any takers.<\/p>\n

They don’t know what they missed, because it was one of the best baseball games I have seen, ever.<\/p>\n

Chris Duncan hit a first-pitch pinch-hit home run<\/a> in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game 2-2 and began a four-run rally to put the Cardinals up 5-2! All four runs that inning were spectacularly played! And Duncan’s home run was a firecracker. The instant you heard the crack of the bat you knew it was out of the park!<\/p>\n

But all the while, what was going through my head was how to organize my digital photos. Earlier in the day I was searching through google links for the means to better organize and tag photos. I use and am a very strong proponent of Picasa<\/a>, a Google technology. But even Picasa has limitations. Such as the photos above-linked: do I put them in a ‘Friends’ folder for Josh and Ash; in a ‘Cardinals’ folder for the baseball game; or under the rubric ‘St. Louis Trip 2006’ for everything from this trip, and have to visually search for photos therein when I need to? Perhaps the latter makes the most sense now, but I’m not so sure of that even, especially if I wind up taking over 600 photos on this trip, which is looking very likely — how do I find that one<\/em> photo of Ashley<\/a> in the crowd of the baseball game?<\/p>\n

So one of the first links I stumbled upon in my searches was this post over at the official Google Blog<\/a> where they mention recently acquiring Neven Vision and their technology which is potentially capable of scanning images and extracting information for you, to heighten search functionality.<\/p>\n

I thought, “That’s great” and found it ironic that Google was already pre-eminating this psychological concern among digital photo enthusiasts. But of course they were!! They’re Google!<\/p>\n

But then I got wondering about Neven Vision, and who they actually are. My searches were quick and futile, and it shows how when Google acquires technology they really move fast:<\/p>\n

\"Neven<\/a><\/p>\n

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