Comments on: What if Facebook could auto-tag uploaded photos? http://durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/ Life, thoughts, cooking, food, mmm food. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Suman http://durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-26516 Mark Suman Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:52:10 +0000 http://www.durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/#comment-26516 (isn't this what "Face"book should already be doing? ;-) ) It would be like a distributed iPhoto 09! That would rock. They would likely have to limit the recognition to people you know, or at least let you specify the privacy settings for it. However, I think this would be an awesome idea. Let's take it one step further: Once they've got a pretty intelligent "face" on file for you, allow you to export that as some sort of standard face format. Then you could import that file into iPhoto, Picasa, and any other photo application (or web app) that supports the face format. Then these systems would become smart, too. I smell a new file format standard coming on. (isn’t this what “Face”book should already be doing? ;-) )

It would be like a distributed iPhoto 09! That would rock. They would likely have to limit the recognition to people you know, or at least let you specify the privacy settings for it. However, I think this would be an awesome idea.

Let’s take it one step further: Once they’ve got a pretty intelligent “face” on file for you, allow you to export that as some sort of standard face format. Then you could import that file into iPhoto, Picasa, and any other photo application (or web app) that supports the face format. Then these systems would become smart, too. I smell a new file format standard coming on.

]]> By: Chris H http://durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-23567 Chris H Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:25 +0000 http://www.durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/#comment-23567 Apple's iPhoto '09 does this already with its "Faces" feature, but I agree that with the hundreds of photos of each person facebook has uploaded by your friends it could be more powerful - although some people may raise privacy concerns, such as it being used to recognise clothes and the colours you tend to wear, the places you go to and the products in the photos, to craft targeted advertising. Apple’s iPhoto ’09 does this already with its “Faces” feature, but I agree that with the hundreds of photos of each person facebook has uploaded by your friends it could be more powerful – although some people may raise privacy concerns, such as it being used to recognise clothes and the colours you tend to wear, the places you go to and the products in the photos, to craft targeted advertising.

]]> By: Colen http://durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-8666 Colen Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:56:23 +0000 http://www.durrans.com/blog/2008/01/29/what-if-facebook-could-auto-tag-uploaded-photos/#comment-8666 This would last until a Gordon Brown lookalike started uploading pictures of himself in odd situations, and Facebook auto-tagged them as Gordon Brown. This would last until a Gordon Brown lookalike started uploading pictures of himself in odd situations, and Facebook auto-tagged them as Gordon Brown.

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