Polar Rose plugin version 0.50 is here
As most of the active beta testers will have discovered by now through the Firefox auto-update service, we released a major upgrade of the plugin on Monday evening, taking us to version 0.50.
A few visible highlights of the release:
- Stability! As those of you who have used the plugin know – and as originally reported – the plugin has had a longstanding issue of often losing connection and stopping to show roses. This has been solved and I’m happy to see the web sprinkled with roses again.
- Several core performance enhancements, including a much faster rendering of roses on photos.
- New status and error messages for better debugging.
- Improved auto-complete of names (which will get better yet soon)
The new plugin is basically a full rewrite and for those of you who are interested in the underlying solution, we have started rendering the drop-down naming window as an iframe served from polarrose.com. This allows much greater flexibility with regards to adding new features to the plugin by simply changing the corresponding pages server-side.
(For a more in-depth overview read the separate post by my colleague Stefan Arentz.)
Next up will be the Internet Explorer plugin, the first matching using the data that has been accumulated by our beta users, and finally our APIs – two of the three will be coming in time for Christmas.
Please report any issues through the feedback page or feel free to comment directly on this post.
Finally, thanks to Mo Jo for leading this rewrite and the rest of the crew in Warsaw, Amsterdam and Malmö for making this happen.
PS. We’ll be adding more beta users as soon as the new plugin has proven itself in the wild over the next days.
November 15th, 2007 at 05:34
How about the privacy function you promised here: http://blog.polarrose.com/2007/07/our-private-beta-launch/ ?
November 15th, 2007 at 21:05
Lucie,
Despite the v0.50 mark on the plugin, we haven’t reached mark 3 on the roadmap you reference. The first privacy functions will be in one of the next plugin releases.
/n
November 15th, 2007 at 22:28
[...] they released a new version. This thing actually works now and so far it’s been [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 22:33
what do you expect from the APIs?
have fun and so on :),
Cougarten
November 15th, 2007 at 23:04
one Rose can partly cover another:
http://screencast.com/t/CmLN8aH0i
November 15th, 2007 at 23:28
@cougarten:
November 29th, 2007 at 18:29
When are you ever going to start using the face recognition feature?
How many years has it been now? The automatic face recognition is the only reason we are all here.
We don’t come here to find pictures that people tagged manually. We can already do that. We want to find all the pictures of specific people, friends, ourselves, that noone tagged, but was only found by your software crawling the internet and recognizing those faces.
Please, that is what you promised way way back, and forgive me for being demanding, but that is the only reason I ever came to this site, and I can’t wait for it, and it doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:37
@Hans, as I wrote in the post “Next up will be the Internet Explorer plugin, the first matching using the data that has been accumulated by our beta users, and finally our APIs – two of the three will be coming in time for Christmas.”
We’re as impatient as anyone to turn on matching, but without the base training data that beta users have been collecting until now, we can’t do matching. It’s hard to find ‘more pictures’ if we don’t have any others…
/n
December 4th, 2007 at 17:24
Hey,
Will you release a plugin for Fx3 before it goes out of Beta? I’m using Fx3b1 and I am not able to install the PolarRose plugin :-(
Thanks,
Rasmus
December 7th, 2007 at 07:33
match who
December 23rd, 2007 at 09:53
You seem to be very nice people. Good luck with your project.
I can’t get anything out of this site thus far.
I’ll keep trying.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37
I predict that this is an epoch making event and I wish it come true with full completion at the earliest