Over the next week we’ll invite the rest of you who signed up for the beta. It feels truly wonderful!

Inviting the rest of our signed up beta testers is one of the final procedures ramping up to our public beta, something we and those who’ve followed us have been looking forward to for some time now. We’ve come a long way.

So far 2000 registered beta testers have found over 21 million images, featuring over 8 million people and named nearly 150.000 of them. Thats not bad, and I’m curious to see how this scales as we add more users.

For me Polar Rose has become a cockpit for my visual web. I find 40 images of me being “seen with” a selection of people (click the stacks to see who). My friends and family are also now searchable – most of them were not before, I think this makes sense.

In the short tail I find several hundred links to Barack Obama and while that might not bring much value compared to any other search service, knowing who he’s seen with on various occasions definitely does. Its a whole new way of navigating the web and I like it.

No need to worry if you do not get any results by searching for your own name. Using the plugin and the coming widget for partner sites you and those who know you can add you to the index as we go live.

Stay tuned. Public beta coming up.

Tags: invites

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