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Edinburgh-based company 6S Ltd has launched CueMemories, a web service to store and retrieve digital media by replicating the simple and effective functions of the human brain. This unique patented technology is based on episodic memory - the memory which stores personal experiences – thereby negating the need for the time-consuming process of semantic tagging of digital content.  The application uses a new patented tagging process known as Cues. Group members add content and tag it with any or all of the three contextual markers - time, people and event type - descriptive tags are redundant thanks to the group's shared autobiography. There is no need to categorize media by format as all content - images, audio and video - is treated the same. Consequently, when group members retrieve content using these broad and meaningful cues, they receive a dynamic multimedia presentation of the experiences and memories shared. CueMemories users join private groups based on friendships, families or important social gatherings such as weddings, big birthdays and bar mitzvahs. Group members share a common past, which the system uses to reference content without the need for laborious descriptive tags. Since real social groups interact with one another through shared knowledge and experience, CueMemories recreates this system online, making it the ultimate application for rich and collaborative digital storage and retrieval.Benefits to users, the company says, includes collaboration, richer memories, and instant slideshows. Users can add content directly to the service or import from existing media channels - Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. The company that invented this system, 6S, commenced working on its digital storage and retrieval system based on human episodic memory 13 years ago. It has patented the technology in the US and the UK with a further three US patents pending. It commenced work on the commercial system in 2009 and the CueMemories web service started in Beta from June 2011. The company's founder, Liz Sharpe, was previously a venture capitalist specialising in early stage software companies and has worked with a range of companies including AOL, Broderbund, Cognex and Symbolics. |
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