Andrew,
some very obvious cases where images appear in isolation include apple
iTunes, google images, slide-show screen-savers, etc...
common visual search applications include flash-cards, collages, flick-
books etc
however there is a requirement that the images communicate something
to the user, cf album covers
and this does require a minimum quality, in both size and content
if there are no BBC examples in the wild, this is likely to be the
reason.
I draw your attention again to:
http://www.openicon.org/feeds/zanadu.svg
which includes chairs on sale at ebay, yahoo news, flickr pets,
youtube films, a horrible hack for the bbc weather icons, and much
more...
but not the BBC, because the image quality is around 1/4 of the yahoo
images which are already poor.
flickr provides the highest quality images in feeds that I am aware of.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
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On 7 Nov 2008, at 11:51, Andrew Bowden wrote:
when compared with yahoo, flickr, ebay etc these thumbnails are very
small and in the cases I reviewed close to meaningless...
what is this:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44872000/jpg/_44872330_ba66bbc.jpg
without a text description it would be hard rather than impossible
to guess.
Dead easy. It's some aeroplane tailfins - British Airways tailfins
to be exact :o)
In isolation its true you might not get them so easily but do the
pictures often appear in isolation? Dunno. Someone tell me :)
