A service message to our beta users…

Today we’ve updated the Polar Rose plugin to version 0.26. The changes aren’t immediately visible, but the update contains several performance enhancements.

Unfortunately, Firefox’s autoupdate functionality doesn’t always work as intended and we’re getting a few reports that the plugin is not being updated automatically. Instead, please click the “Find updates” button which you can find under Tools > Add-ons in Firefox’s menu to manually find updates.

Should even that fail, you can always manually download the latest version at the Polar Rose downloads page.

A month ago in Seattle we launched the people gallery, a snapshot of people appearing in photos at Flickr tagged ‘gnomedex07′. We found a total of 1.988 shots of people, of which about 45% ended up being named.

This morning we rolled out a new version of the events people gallery based on the feedback from Gnomedex. The first implementation is for the TechCrunch40 conference going on today and tomorrow in San Francisco.
Reports are that the wi-fi network is flaky, so only a few photos have come up on Flickr, but we’ve already picked out 138 people from the photos by now.

As you might have noticed, we’ve added RSS feeds to Polar Rose ‘found’ pages, including an RSS feed for the TechCrunch40 people gallery.

I’m at home, but stop by and say hello to Mikkel who’ll be in the conference Demopit all Tuesday.