Facebook Facial Recognition Comes to Facebook This morning, Face.com announced that they're bringing advanced facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of a new application called Photo Finder. Using proprietary facial scanning algorithms, this application scans through your photos and those public photos belonging to your friends in order to identify and suggest tags for the untagged… Social Sarah Perez View comments
enterprise Steve Wozniak Joins DeepDyve Advisory Board Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is joining the advisory board of the research engine DeepDyve, a search engine designed to scour the "deep web." This "deep web" is an area of the internet that isn't currently indexed by modern-day search engines like Google and yet consists of an estimated 99.8% of the Internet. Any company that is able to… Enterprise Sarah Perez View comments
Music MixTape.me is a Brilliant Musical Mashup A few days ago, over at Gina Trapani's new Smarterware blog, I read about another new web-based music player and playlist creator, MixTape.me. I've reviewed several takes on the same basic concept recently, so I didn't immediately write this one up. But I went ahead and gave it a spin, listening to a few of the popular playlists and searching for… Play Phil Glockner View comments
enterprise ChoiceStream Brings Recommendations to Online Advertising In this latest installment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ChoiceStream - a recommendations vendor which counts Overstock, Borders and AT&T among its high profile clients. ChoiceStream has recently turned its attention to using recommendations in online advertising, and in this post we look at how the company is doing this… Enterprise Richard MacManus View comments
Lifestreaming StoryTlr Adds a New Dimension to Lifestreaming with Pages StoryTlr, a lifestreaming service that debuted to a lot of positive press last year, has (among several other enhancements) debuted a major new feature today: Pages. This is a new gallery format view of selected portions of a total lifestream, essentially as a slideshow. StoryTlr adds this new ability to its already rich aggregation support of… Phil Glockner View comments