Thursday, December 16, 2010

Facebook puts a new spin on Tagging Photos: Facial Recgonition

Very Cool stuff! My advice when there are changes made to FB, REVISIT YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS. http://anisesmith.posterous.com/this-is-how-private-your-facebook-profile-sho

Amplify’d from mashable.com

Facebook Brings Facial Recognition to Photo Tagging

This release is part of a bigger effort to upgrade Photos. Earlier this year, Facebook launched a slew of upgrades, including bigger thumbnails, group tagging and drag-and-drop photos.

This may be the biggest upgrade for Photos yet, though. Photo tagging is considered a chore by many users, yet it is the company’s most popular product. “Photos are by far the most engaging content Facebook has ever had,” Cox told us earlier today. By vastly simplifying the tagging process, Facebook expects that its millions of users will tag more photos, which will create millions of new engagement points and social connections, making it that much more addicting.

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