The Market Quarter
March 18th, 2008 2 Comments
I met Jonathan to swap hints and tips last week in Covent Garden (downstairs) whilst he took a few photographs for The Market Quarter, his new gourmet ecommerce site growing out of his (and my) work with Bedales in Borough Market. Interestingly, he used his camera to grab the incredients (quickly) from the labels for use on the site later.
I wonder if that would be a good web2.0 service? Email a picture, receive the text back. I’m sure its been done hasn’t it?
March 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm (#)
Online OCR - distinctively web1.0!
http://www.ocrgrid.org/online-ocr.html has a few.
As for web-two-point-oh-fication I guess - as with everything - it’s how you package it. How about feeding the OCR service a Flickr stream of, say, pictures of traffic signs, and recieving a feed of matches of STOP signs (or whatever your traffic sign fetish word might be). Rushed and pointless example, but I’m sure there is something in there.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:43 pm (#)
Those links were pre-web1.0. None of ‘em work. Thanks
And yes the web2.0 was obviously rushed AND pointless. Thanks again.