Facebook Application ‘GazoPa book’

Photos uploaded to facebook exceed 10 billion recently. We released new feature to enjoy these photos. GazoPa book is a new application for facebook to help you to look for photos on the web similar to those at facebook. Photos at user profile and albums can be set as key image to search for similar images on the web. Images similar to photos at your friend ‘s albums can be also searched. This is a first step for us to release an application for facebook and not all features of GazoPa can be available at the application. We don’t think it has reached perfect level, so we’re waiting for your feedback.This application has not registered at application list of facebook yet, so you can’t search it from search box of facebook, but you can see the application page and sign in here.

Thank you, Haas.

The ‘play’ conference was very nice and we enjoyed it much. It was a warm and comfortable day and I didn’t imagine it was so warm even in November. I heard around six hundred tickets were sold out before the conference. Both students and professionals attended it. Our booth was located in the front of the entrance gate and many people stopped by. Not a few people told us that they were familiar with our logo and they remembered they saw us at TechCrunch50. I felt again that TC50 was a powerful event. We received many questions and suggestions and these will help us to consider our future plan.

Thank you again to all staffs at ‘play’ conference. You did a great job!

New feature ‘flow’

We released new feature ‘flow’. ‘flow’ is the feature that helps users to enjoy various images. Users don’t need to set parameter such as color, shape. These parameters are set automatically and various images are displayed based on parameters. Users only need to click ’flow’ below the key image and ‘flow’ starts.

Basically, search requires activeness, but not all users want to click search button many times. This ‘flow’ feature helps users to enjoy image search comfortably. Just click ‘flow’ below the key image. Enjoy it!

GazoPa is two month old!

Two months have passed since we launched GazoPa in private beta. Almost all the bugs have fixed but unfortunately, there are still some failures at user registrations process. (If you can’t register successfully, please contact contact (at) gazopa.com). Some suggestions from users have not been realized. One of the biggest changes from launch is the feature we released last week, i.e. rating of search by drawing.’ Shuffle and recommendation were also features that were released after launch. Some changes are not easy to be found by users, because those are not changes of UI. One of the examples are tuning up of image features. You can get better search results by this change.

I have been asked by not a few users when GazoPa would be open to public. How many months does it take for new projects from private beta to open to public on average? Some are a few months and some are more than one year. It seems new search engines have longer stealth period than other categories. Since we are in the category of search engine, more than one year is required for private beta theoretically. Just kidding.

Actually, we plan to release some wonderful and important features by the end of this year. We also need to increase searchable data. Please wait for a while patiently.

Every day GazoPa

Which web services do you use every day? Google is my daily search engine and I also use YouTube, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn not every day but often. Former TechCrunch writer, Mr.Duncan Riley wrote he used Evernote, Things, Skitch, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Grooveshark. I have used some, but not all of them. We use some web services everyday because of fun, time saving, killing time etc. Although technology is developing and new services are generated every day, unfortunately, our time remains unchanged. If we share our time with new service, we need to shorten our time for using other services or stop using them. Some people may cut sleeping time in order to enjoy them. We want GazoPa to be a daily tool for everybody. This is why we released ‘Ranking of search by drawing’ last week. We’d like to release new features continuously so that users touch it every day.