Wipley, Social Gaming Platform

The first application we have developed is FlickrBabel, a service to help in multimedia information retrieval, first using Flickr. The operative and utility of this tool is very simple. When a query is given to the system, it generates translations (by means of Google Translation API) to other languages (Spanish and English, by the momento) and it creates an expanded query with these translations. Finally, it generates the query using Flickr API (we use phpFlickr class for interacting with Flickr from PHP) and shows the results. servicio de ayuda a la búsqueda de fotografías en Flickr. El funcionamiento y utilidad de esta herramienta es muy simple.

As well as expanding queries by means of automated translation, FlickrBabel is able to search for related photographies using the contextual information attached to a given Flickr photo. When a photographie is geotagged, FlickrBabel also shows the photographies taken near from that location as a way to expand the vision of some places.

FlickrBabe borned as a satellite application when exploring several web services APIs trying to understand better how they work to use that knowledge in Wipley development. For getting a deeper knowledge from that APIs, nothing better than doing something practical, and this is the first result. By now,  FlickrBabel is at a “beta” stage, so we will add some functionalities from time to time.