Ask me, and I'll tell you: To remember, "blog daily, tell people, make money!" http://www.empowernetwork.com/commissionloophole.php?id=workwithmikeSincerely; Michael Note: this message likely dictated, however not proofread on my iPhone. Check us out online: Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message: > From: Shirley Koda <s...@dslextreme.com> > Date: February 28, 2013, 9:32:56 PM MST > To: "'Technology list for the Blind and Vision Impaired'" > <blindt...@lists.blindtech-list.info> > Subject: [BlindTech] Tap Tap See. > Reply-To: Technology list for the Blind and Vision Impaired > <blindt...@lists.blindtech-list.info> > > According to the CEO of the company who developed the app, it might not be > free for long. Here is part of an e-mail he sent to me. > > > 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 > > > BlindTech is owned by Michael Capelle: > michaelcape...@charter.net > To send a message to the list > blindt...@lists.blindtech-list.info > > To search list archives: > http://lists.blindtech-list.info/pipermail/blindtech-blindtech-list.info/ > > If you have any questions about this list, or the day-to-day opperations, > please don't send those questions on list, instead, please write: > blindtech-ow...@lists.blindtech-list.info > > To manage your subscription options, go to > http://lists.blindtech-list.info/options.cgi/blindtech-blindtech-list.info > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
