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.

Mikkel and I are in beautiful Seattle at Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo’s (Lockergnome) annual conference. It’s great and feels much like our beloved reboot.

As Mike Arrington wrote up on Techcrunch, we’ve created a people gallery for Gnomedex. We’re pulling pictures tagged ‘gnomedex07′ or ‘gnomedex2007′ from Flickr, process them for people, and republish this people gallery on the Gnomedex site (see screenshot).

If you know who’s in the picture, you can name people with the inline editor on our site, or back at the original photo on Flickr using the plugin.
We know that there are certain elements missing like better sorting and the obvious RSS feed, but this was a last-minute crunch that the team put out (thanks, guys!). People are already calling this a must-have conference tool and we expect to put up these people galleries for other conferences soon.

Have fun and let us know what you think!

ps. If you want to test the functionality without adding pictures to the Gnomedex people gallery that aren’t really from Gnomedex, use the tag ‘prtest07′ on Flickr and they’ll appear at http://www.polarrose.com/events/prtest07