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-As I reported earlier this morning, [Like.com][1] is a new shopping site based around an image search engine. Like's image search lets you browse and search by visual similarity rather than textual descriptions. [Riya][2], the folks behind Like, already have an image recognition search engine that has seen limited success, but the company has shift focus slightly with Like.

At the moment Like focuses on shopping searches and you can't upload an image, rather you start out with a text search and then Like gives you a choice of images based on your search terms. You can also browse by celebrity photos and find products similar to those that Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and others are wearing in the pictures.

The idea is that if you find an item you like in a photograph, for example, a particular watch, pair of shoes, handbag or jewelry, Like will find related products by examining the actual image. Like.com then presents a link to purchase the item from Amazon an other online retailers.

I'm probably not the target market for finding shopping results based on celebrity photos, but the search results themselves are pretty impressive. And you can specify that like match against various criteria including, color texture and shape. So if you see a photo on the site of Paris Hilton in red shoes, but you decide you'd like to see them in black, just select black from the color picker and Like narrows your search. You can also weight your criteria's importance using sliders at the top of each results page. This way you can search by color, but emphasis results based on shape.

Because the site is currently limited to images already in its database, the experience is somewhat less than spectacular, but Like claims to be launching an image upload feature in the next few months. Although Like claims to be in alpha status, I had no problems using the site and I'm looking forward to using like with uploaded images wherever that feature becomes available.

[1]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
[2]: http://riya.com/ "Riya.com"
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-Mojiti is a video annotation service that allows you to add captions and highlights to your uploaded video. Mojiti supports YouTube, Revver, MySpace Video, Metacafe, iFilm and more. 

Mojiti offers what it calls a "Spot Ticker" which allows you to add a subtitle at any point in the movie.

To use Mojiti you just paste in the URL of whatever clip you'd like to annotate and then add your caption. Mojiti also lets you add highlights to parts a video, for instance to point out your crazy cousin picking his nose at the family picnic.

Aside from the obvious fun of doing more with your videos, Mojiti has a large base of users who add subtitles to foreign language clips. Of course there's no way to verify the accuracy of the translations, but it's nice to see people making an effort.

Once you're done adding your content you can host the new movie with Mojiti or download it and post it on your own site.

The Mojiti video player is not quite as nice as YouTube's and it seems to have a nasty habit of crashing the Safari browser, but Firefox was unfazed.
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-<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />And there you have it. Here's your morning reboot:

*	[Like.com][6] is a new image search engine that can search using an image as input. This has been the holy grail of image search for some time. If Like can do what it says it can do, this will be huge. [via [TechCrunch][5]

*	[Skype has released v3 beta][1] which features, among other things, a completely redesigned UI. The beta is Windows only and has a couple of known issues you should review before jumping in with both feet.

*	Google has announced it will be increasing its presence in the radio advertising market. Advertisers will be able to sign up via their AdWords accounts. Google Audio Ads should begin testing by the end of the year. [via [CNet][3]]

*	Apple has [announced new MacBooks featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo][4]. Now where did I put that receipt for my month old Core Duo? 




[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading_beta.html "Download Skype Beta 3"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6133325.html?tag=nefd.top "CNet on Google Audio Ads"
[4]: http://www.apple.com/ "MacBook Core 2 Duo"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/08/riyas-likecom-is-first-true-visual-image-search/ "TechCrunch on Like.com"
[6]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
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