Pixazza launched a service similar to AdSense for images on March 24, 2009, it prompts relevant product details and listings onto the images. Google is also one of the biggest investors for Pixazza, and it once again helps bloggers and long tail participants to turn their photo into money after providing contextual advertising in text by AdSense.

Pixazza inserts tiny yellow-and-blue tags onto the images, and detail product listhings show up once users mouse-over these tags. You can see the available offerings by different retailers, and just a few clicks away from purchasing the products.

More than just AdSense for Images

• Crowdsourcing. Unlike AdSense which analyzes the content on a web pages, Pixazza relies on its crowdsourcing platform to enables groups of volunteer and paid experts to identify the products in the photos and tag them.
• Visually Trigger Buying Intention. AdSense provides content-related advertisements in text and hope to get users’ attention, while attrative photos can trigger immediate buying intention and Pixazza can increase the conversion rate by directly pointing users to the retailers.
• Rewarding Consumer-generated Media. New media enables people to create and publish their own graphics and photos easily, Pixazza can turn their creativity into cash if they drive sales to any related products. It creates a new win-win affiliate marketing network of photos besides the text and banner ads.

You can check Pixazza out in I’m not obsessed, and see if you’re interested in those designer brands worn by those celebrities. If you’re publishers, sign up to give Pixazza a try and share your reviews here. Perphaps I should bring Pixazza to this blog some day.

Extended Reading

• Pixazza “Product in the Picture” Service: AdSense for Images by Business Week
• Google Invests in Pixazza, An AdSense for Images by Mashable
• Pixazza開站策動三贏革命，把每張圖片自動變成廣告賺錢 by Mr. 6

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Photo is the key component making social media so hot. You may have tried your best to tag all your friends and yourself in photos on Facebook, but you’ll always get a chance to miss some photos of you taken by your friends, colleagues and in those other 10 billion photos in Facebook. Face.com’s ‘Photo Finder’ will help you discover them all automatically.

Auto-Tagged by Photo Finder

Face.com announced its alpha version of Photo Finder on Facebook. It adopts a proprietary facial recognition technology to scans through those photos in your own, your friends’ and other public albums instantly, and it will prompt an Auto-Tag results for user’s confirmation. We will be free from tagging photos in future, how cool it is!

Search Photo of You

Face recognition also enables searches over billions of photos on the internet too. Polar Rose launches its facial search engine Polar Rose beta, and you can search any public figures, celebrities and even yourself. How does it do it? It recognizes the faces and suggests the names to those users’ installed their plug-in to confirm them or add new names. These scalable eye-ball checks are made feasible by the power of crowdsourcing.

Though it sparks privacy concerns, Face recognition will definitely be the major technology on social networking and photo-sharing sites like Facebook & Flickr. If you want to try it first, join Face.com’s Photo Finder alpha and share your experience here.

Extended Reading

• Face.com Brings Facial Recognition To Facebook Photos by TechCrunch
• Facial Recognition Comes to Facebook by ReadWriteWeb

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