TagCow

How to store tons of digital photos appropriately? Yes, that’s the major problem for everyone. Storing in a common folder is easier. However, difficulty occurs when one wants to store them in a specific folder. For example, picking all the flowers photos from a folder which consists of huge number of other photos. Definitely it can be done, but it is a tedious and time consuming job.

Recently a good service called TagCow launched to solve the problem. It has an ability to identify the photos with the descriptive keywords. The keywords could be anything, such as rain, mummy, home, etc. It identifies the pictures and tags them based on the descriptive. Isn’t it making our life so much earlier?

Source: http://www.tagcow.com/home

Users can easily sign in with TagCow, and upload the digital photos. At that point, those photos will be sent to TagCow “tag factory”, where all the descriptive tags will be added. Once done, it will be published in user’s TagCow site based on the descriptive attributes. However, the service is also integrates with another photo storing service called Flickr. User can easily setup a template for tagging people and connect their Flickr account into TagCow account. In this way, TagCow’s “tag factory” will be able to get all the photos from user’s Flickr album and add the descriptive tags. Then, everyone can easily search the photos based on the descriptive tags on Flickr site itself.

The major doubt that existed among the public was “How TagCow works? Is it automated or done by human?” I think that is not necessary, unless if we want to work on the similar service. In my point of view, it will be a great idea if TagCow extends the service by having “desktop application”. In this way users can easily download the application and sort their photos in the hard drive. So, it can be a useful application for online and offline storage.