Released on = August 25, 2006, 3:18 am

Press Release Author = Cogitum LC

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Add easy-to-hide notes to images. Publish images to Flickr,
blogs. Search.

Press Release Body = The FotoTagger Image Annotation Tool Now Supports Flickr for
Photo Sharing

ASHBURN, VA, USA - August 25, 2006. Cogitum LC, a provider of software for personal
content management, has released the new version of FotoTagger
(http://www.fototagger.com), a desktop image annotation tool for adding easy-to-hide
notes to pictures.

With FotoTagger users can manage vast libraries of digital images, and specifically
digital photographs, more effectively. Every regular user of a digital camera faces
the problem of forgetting valuable information about people or objects captured on
an image. FotoTagger eliminates this problem by allowing users to place on an image
location-specific annotation notes that point to people or other elements. Notes
could contain names of people, texts with Web links to convey historical or cultural
background, explanation comments, translations of inscriptions, and more.

An example of annotation notes that can be added to travel photos can be found by
following this link: http://www.fototagger.com/products/desktop/whatannotate.

FotoTagger is about storing all important textual information together with an image
as a single entity. The product works with JPEG files and stores annotation in the
metadata section of a JPEG file. This ability provides the following four
opportunities. First, annotation notes can be edited at any time after the image is
saved. Second, it allows a user to hide annotation notes in a click to view an
original picture so there is no risk to spoil original images by embedding
annotation that could not be eliminated. Third, this capability lets users search
across textual notes. Finally, since annotation notes are stored in the same file
they cannot be lost when sharing or moving a picture.

Leonid Malkov, President of Cogitum LC, said, "Integrating different information
medias into the one starts as a technological change, but often leads to a cultural
revolution. The best example is adding sound to silent movies that created a totally
new phenomenon in early 20th century. FotoTagger integrates digital image and text
giving users an opportunity to transform photographs from collection of pixels into
recorded impressions."

FotoTagger provides effective tools for sharing annotated images, starting from
sending the pictures by email in one click and HTML publishing to using blogs and
special sharing services, namely Flickr. Currently FotoTagger has specific support
for:

- Flickr. The latest version of FotoTagger allows a user to upload an image
annotated with FotoTagger to a Flickr account and seamlessly convert FotoTagger
annotation to Flickr notes. Similarly, an image can be downloaded from a Flickr
account back to FotoTagger while all Flickr notes will be preserved and transformed
to FotoTagger annotation. This new feature enables bloggers who like to store photos
in Flickr to use FotoTagger as a common platform that enables them to annotate
pictures on a local computer and then publish them both to a blog and Flickr
account.

- Blogs. With FotoTagger user can publish annotated pictures to Blogger.com and
LiveJournal.

- Web. An annotated picture can be converted to an HTML pages for publishing in the
Web. Similarly, it can be merged with annotation notes and sent by email so other
users will be able to view annotation without having to install FotoTagger.

The previous version of FotoTagger proved to be very useful for tens of thousands
users, including travel photographers, genealogy researchers, family historians, and
art history researchers. They use an ability to integrate image and text in order to
make pictures more informative.

Cogitum LC developed an open XML-based standard for storing and visualizing
annotation notes. The standard is based on the existing standards for digital
images.

The current personal version of FotoTagger supports what could be called "3F
principle" F1: Free of charge; F2: Free of ads; F3: Free of spyware and privacy
intrusion.

FotoTagger can be downloaded from the official product Website
http://www.fototagger.com.

About Cogitum LC
Cogitum is an innovative software developing company with several award-winning
personal software tools, including Co-Tracker and Co-Citer that gained total
hundreds of thousands downloads.

More information can be obtained by contacting a company representative at
1-703-858-2377 or by contacting Leonid Malkov at Lmalkov@cogitum.com.


Web Site = http://www.fototagger.com

Contact Details = Address: 21339 Fairhunt Drive, Ashburn
USA

Phone Number: 703-858-2377
Email: tagger@fototagger.com