Face Alerts
Face.com, an Israeli start up that specializes in face recognition, announced a significant enhancement of its Facebook application – alerts on new pictures, before they are tagged.
Any user of their application, called Photo Tagger, can set email or Facebook notification when a new photo of his appears on one of his friends’ albums. In many cases, people mass-upload photos from trips, parties or any other gatherings, but don’t take the time to tag them immediately, or not tag them at all.
Face.com’s new feature fills in this gap by scanning new albums and using its face recognition technology to identify new images.
The main use isn’t in tagging photos, but rather removing them, or preventing the tagging. Many colege kids enjoy fooling around in parties but are embarrassed in the morning after. This feature allows a quick interception of embarrassing photos, before they are tagged – before the person is publicly mocked.
Photo Tagger was in an Alpha stage up to now, and this feature is the highlight of its opening to the public. Face.com checked out their application with the help of over 30,000 testers.
The face recognition technology has been praised all over and received high scores for its accuracy. However, this accuracy also raised concerns over privacy – automatic identification isn’t desired by everybody.
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Yohay Elam is a problogger, with Forex Crunch being his primary site. Yohay belongs to the founding generation of Israeli political group blog Black Labor, a writer in the The Networking Blog and maintains his personal bi-lingual blog. Before becoming a problogger, Yohay worked as a programmer in various Israeli startups such as Metacafe.
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2010-03-12
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