Facial Recognition Comes to Tagging in Facebook…Finally!

I can’t emphasize how LONG I have been waiting for facial recognition to be added to Facebook. Manually tagging photos is so 2005. With iPhoto,Picasa Web,and even Like.com (back in 2006) doing facial and text recognition in photos,it was surprising that Facebook never took the next step to add facial recognition to the billions of photos it was storing. I hate going through all my photos,and manually tagging sometimes 20 people in a single photo,across multiple photos. Finally,there is a solution! Face.com has released into alpha a web application called PhotoTagger that uses Facebook Connect to find all your friends,all your albums,and then match up all the people in an album to your friends list automatically,right from the start. It doesn’t even need to group photos and ask who this is to start! A simply amazing app,it’s sad that it took a 3rd party to come out with this before Facebook got around to it. I really really like this application. Best of all,once tagged,you can then save it to Facebook. If you own the album,the people are automatically tagged,and if not,a tag request (as per norm with Facebook) is sent out to the album owner. While in private alpha and thus closed to public sign up,there are a couple sites (Geek.com,TechCrunch,etc) who have some invites to give out…I’ve got just a couple to give out,so leave a comment if you want an account. (Found on TechCrunch)