http://mapopescu.blogsome.com/2005/08/31/the-photo-albums-long-tail/ writings about the web desktop Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:03:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://mapopescu.blogsome.com/2005/08/31/the-photo-albums-long-tail/#comment-10 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:08:05 +0000 http://mapopescu.blogsome.com/2005/08/31/the-photo-albums-long-tail/#comment-10 Face recognition isn't that weird. Well, till now it was a bit of a weird technology: used mostly by governments, nuclear plants, airports, anti-terrorist units, you name it. But it was bound to come down to the masses, and now it has. Riya's doing it and also an interesting startup called myheritage.com is brandishing its own face recognition technology, which is focused on genealogy. So while Riya helps you organize your own photos, myheritage.com helps you find photos of interest to you that other people have. Weird but lovely, isn't it? Face recognition isn’t that weird. Well, till now it was a bit of a weird technology: used mostly by governments, nuclear plants, airports, anti-terrorist units, you name it. But it was bound to come down to the masses, and now it has. Riya’s doing it and also an interesting startup called myheritage.com is brandishing its own face recognition technology, which is focused on genealogy. So while Riya helps you organize your own photos, myheritage.com helps you find photos of interest to you that other people have. Weird but lovely, isn’t it?

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