Kooaba extends its mobile visual search with augmented reality

I am indeed getting hot under the collar about augmented reality and many readers are noticing! Thank-you to Kooaba for pointing me to their new mobile visual search plus augmented reality.

Mobile visual search engine Searchme launches ad platform

Searchme has announced that its new ad platform has passed beta and is now available to advertisers. It has been in a testing phase with ad agencies and brands for a few months now, and Searchme is now confident that it intersects well with its “visual mobile search” offering.

Amazon acquires mobile search engine SnapTell - a match made in heaven?

Amazon’s search division, A9, has acquired mobile search service SnapTell. SnapTell is an image-recognition app that can identify the cover a piece of media (like a book, DVD or computer game) through a cameraphone and return pricing info and reviews from the web.

SnapTell has been consistently high in the list of the most popular iPhone [...]

Searchme has the right idea, with its mobile visual search on Ovi

Searchme has announced that it’s on-line “visual search” service is now available as a downloadable app on the Nokia Ovi Store. Anyone with a Symbian-based Nokia S60 can pick the application up for free by pointing their browser at the content store.

What is Visual Search?

Simply, it’s a type of search that returns picture results. Instead [...]

Mobile Campaign Alert: Mobile Visual Search player SnapNow and Fiat

Mobile Visual Search provider SnapNow launched a new six week mobile campaign for Fiat UK to promote the new city car.
The campaign is the result of a collaboration between Fiat, Starcom and SnapNow, the mobile visual search service.
A marketing drive will highlight the fact that picture recognition technology will allow customers to take a photo [...]

MyClick Mobile Visual Search at Mobile Asia Congress

First ever campaign with Pepsi where you had to take the image within the code.
New campaign where you take a picture of the whole bag of crisps and not just one piece of code.
Images at the conference for winning prizes.

So I was impressed with MyClick there has been a competition running all day for [...]

Mobile Visual Search Snap My Life Photo Maps plus location

I am sorry I missed this last week as I have been testing Snap My Life recently. 
What is it?

SnapMyLife (http://www.snapmylife.com/) enables anyone with a camera phone and mobile web access to snap and share photos, easily make friends, add favorites, comment, and chat.
What is new?
Location based services with in the Photo Map experience.  So users [...]

Kooaba mobile visual search campaign in CINEMA Magazine

The Movie Magazine CINEMA is allowing users to vote for their favourite advert in every issue?
How?

Basically during September, readers take a picture of their favourite ad and send it to a special shortcode.  Using kooaba’s technology each advert sent in is saved and recognised for categorisation.
Also there is an incentive to use the visual [...]

MyClick’s China Mobile Share a Wish Mobile Image Promotion

Mobile visual recognition company MyClick is powering China Mobile’s Pavillion at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

 
What is it?
Basically it is a mobile picture service that you take images of interesting games and then you get freebies, goodies or more information on it. The Olympic ringtone can even be downloaded.
From the press release
Justin Tsang, Chief Technology [...]

Yikes Does MMS Search Work?

I have now had six - yes six emails about my article about Thrrum. See original post here..

Why?
Competitors are saying that this is not an exclusive deal with US operators and Thrrum -but hype from the provider. I have emailed T-Mobile and Verizon and am awaiting response - but everyone seems to say that Thrrum [...]

Mobile 2.0 Companies to watch

These companies stuck out yesterday during the developers den -but I have to say the killer app will be the one that mixes all of the below.

Kooaba – visual mobile search
Strands – Rob Knight is a huge Last FM fan and is testing this service now – he says it rocks (report coming soon)
Aka-aki – [...]

Mobile Visual Search Kooaba wins MobileMonday Demo Night

More proof mobile visual search is making an impact.

Kooaba’s object recognition solution allows to link images and objects in the real world with the mobile Internet.
Dr. Herbert Bay, kooaba’s CEO: „We are delighted to have-won this special competition. It confirms that wer are on the right track with our innovative technology.
What we think?
I have seen [...]

Mobile Visual Search: Snaptell Snap.Send.Get used by Rolling Stone Magazine

The Rolling Stone Magazine is using SnapTell mobile marketing for interactive adverts.

Who is advertising?
Participating advertisers include Allstate Insurance, Canadian Club, DiGiorno For One (a Kraft brand), Edge Shaving Gel (an SC Johnson brand) and Discovery Channel.
 What is the promotion?
The SnapTell-enabled advertisements ran in the May 1, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone and prompted readers to [...]

SnapTell Mobile Image Marketing makes Men’s Health a fully interactive advertising magazine

OK, don’t talk to me about health as I am really really sick right now. I have the flu. Which is stressful as I have been invited to an exclusive Mobile Expert event in Sweden on Monday and I might not be able to make it; because my ears are exploding.
But the force is with [...]

Omoby from mobile visual search to mobile clickable visual objects

Remember, I got a tip off about oMoby a new mobile visual search engine a while back?

Well some changes have happened on the website. It seems that this mobile search engine is a bit different. This time you can click on physical objects to get related results. So like one big visual mobile search recommendation [...]

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