Here is part of an e-mail I got from the CEO of Tap Tap See. It might not be free for long.
But basically we utilize both computer recognition and human crowdsourcing for the app. So basically whenever a computer can't recognize an image, it gets sent to humans who try to ID it, but this process is quite expensive and we want to keep the app totally free, but there are quite high costs in paying dozens of people each day to tag the images so if we don't raise enough money, we might not be able to keep TapTapSee alive which would be a shame so donations to this particular $20 incentive of our other project we have on KickStarter will be critical for us as half the money will go to directly support TapTapSee (I would do the entire money but since the KickStarter campaign is for a different app, I'm not allowed to do so) If you don't mind please direct anyone you know that would like to see TapTapSee stay alive and thrive to our KickStarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dominikmazur/camfind-a-mobile-visual-sea rch-app and select the $20 incentive where half the donation will go to sponsor TapTapSee or maybe you will be kind enough to donate yourself. We really appreciate it, but by keeping the app free, it's costing us hundreds of dollars per day (in order to pay sighted people to help tag the images) Please share this with anyone that could benefit from TapTapSee and uses it and would like it to survive in the future. Thanks, Dominik http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dominikmazur/camfind-a-mobile-visual-sea rch-app -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
