July 15, 2007
The other day I came across a new startup Polar Rose is entering its private beta testing phase. For those who are interested in trying their early beta version, they allowed a limited number of beta users to test their plug-in. Polar Rose, is expected to launch its browser plug-in version 0.1 for Firefox in the next few weeks. It is a public photo discoverer, which means you can detects people in the public photos and you have the options to name the person, do some tagging as well on the edit the name of the photos that you found by using their browser plug-in. Starting from 16th July, they will randomly select some email addresses, i.e. those who sign-up for the beta notification to test out their plug-in. As I read their blog entry, they having some plans to further upgrading their plug-in, such as release the adult content filter, bookmarking feature, pubic API release, and etc.
Polar Rose is a research project grew out of a university in Sweden. They have raised $5.1 million in funding from Nordic Venture Partners in November last year.
