Who says social networking and metadata don't get you anything? When investing in a new device, its a good practice to read some reviews or get recomendations from knowledgable friends. A lot of online markets have implemented a review section, but I can't help wondering what people's motives are for posting a review there. Are they a fanboy? A hater? What would be better is harvesting usage data to generate a kind of implicit recommendation. And that's just what Yahoo! did.Pictures on Flickr are generally of pretty good quality, and in some cases are taken by seasoned photographers. So a large collection of high quality digital photography with camera origin metadata should be a pretty sweet source of data. Makes me wonder what other markets this could be applied to. Graphics cards from users of a gaming site, Corporate workorders for window maintience, automobile performance records from emissions testers? Honestly metadata is only going to get more detailed and more ubiquitous and I think we should start thinking of ways to leverage it. While protecting the privacy of the data, obviously.
Their list:
- Nikon D50
- Nikon D70
- Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
- Canon EOS 20D
- Canon EOS 350D Digital
- Nikon D70s
- Cybershot
- Canon Powershot S2 IS
- Canon EOS Digital Rebel
- Nikon D20
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