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The Digg Experiment: Trying to reunite found photos with the person that lost them.

A colleague at work found a memory card while on holidays in Portugal. We’re now going to try and find the owner of the card using Digg and other types of social networking. I think that this should be a nice experiment to see if social networking can find someone, somewhere in the world only by a photo. These are not your normal holiday snaps, they are special stop motion pictures, and look like they are for some form of film or project.

Here are Erics comments:

I found a memory card in Portugal while on vacation there. Back home I retrieved the pictures out of it and this is the only one with a recognisable face. The rest is mostly motion stop photos of some puppets…

Can somebody help me? I’d like to send at least the pictures, at best the whole card to its rightful owner. The exif data indicates the camera used is a Canon Digital Rebel XT, but there is no owner name listed. There is a camera serial number in there however: 620529733.

So if you know that guy, or if you know how to locate the owner of this camera, let me know.

If you know this person and can help us get his memory card back to him, or you are the owner, you can contact us on photosfoundinportugal@gmail.com. Also, please digg this so that we can get more eyes on this to help us track down the owner; email this to friends, family, enemies and pets – lets see how long it takes (if at all) to find the owner.

Example Photo ( See the Photo on Flickr )

Example Photo ( See the Photo on Flickr )

Don’t forget, our email is: photosfoundinportugal@gmail.com

Update (06/06/2007)

Well, my site took a hammering last night as the Digg story grew legs and ran (thanks to everyone!). Until now the maximum of 35 concurrent users seemed to be more than enough! Thankfully duggmirror.com had a cache of it for people to look at! Needless to say my traffic statistics went mad!

Lots of helpful and productive comments too! An interesting one to take note of is a suggestion to put a small textfile on your memeory card with some contact details.

One kind person even added the story to craigslist Portugal: http://portugal.craigslist.org/laf/345660559.html. Hopefully if Slashdot runs with the story my site stays alive!

The number of visitors from Portugal has increased quite a bit today, so hopefully that will spread some momentum. A couple of digital photography fora have got threads highlighting this (for example Tips from the Top Floor), and I’m getting referrals from the Portuguese forum (http://forum.autohoje.com). I’m also seeing a lot of referrals from webmail services, unfortunately, as yet, we’re no closer to locating the owner….

Tags: digg, photos, social

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