Presentation given to Amazon's Web Services team at their headquarters in Seattle, WA, during their quarterly kickoff meeting. Presentation created and presented by the Tagcow.com co-founders Michael Droz and Matt Nichols.
Tagging the Enterprise Enabled by AWS - by Michael Droz
1. Leveraging AMZN Web Services to
Enable Tagging & Content
Filtering Solutions
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2. Contents
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Tagcow Overview
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Usage Stats
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Flagship Partners & Enterprise Customers
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Consumer Demo
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Technology Stack
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Architecture
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Why AWS
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AWS Services Not Used
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Feature Requests
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EC2
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Mechanical Turk
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3. Tagcow Overview
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Founded in 2006 [ as...Munio Memory Services, Inc.]
Consumer Tagging Service BETA [launched March 2008]
Enterprise Tagging Service [launched April 2008]
Content Filtering Service [launched April 2008]
HQ in American Fork, UT
Funding: Private
Venture Consulting Partner: Atlas Accelerator (www.atlasaccelerator.com)
9 employees
“Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved:
“Tagcow’s Enterprise Tagging Service gives search analyst, SEO/SEM
Let’s Pay People to Tag Photos”
managers and merchandising managers the powerful ability to quickly,
accurately and affordably add meta data to large sets of images. A real
breakthrough!” - Craig Crossman (Computer America)
“Thomas Hawk, the CEO of photo site Zooomr, tried the
service and declared it “really, really cool,”
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4. Usage Stats
Consumer Services
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Thousands of consumer accounts
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3 million images tagged
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13.5 million tags generated (4.5 tags per image)
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12 month goal to tag 3 billion consumer images
Enterprise Services
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Several signed contracts
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Tagging campaigns to begin next week
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12 month goal to tag 100 million enterprise images
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