Photo Tagger [via Face.com], which launched to a limited group of users in July, scans a user’s photo albums on the social-networking site, then lets him tag faces it identifies. It groups multiple shots of each person, making it easy to tag large albums, and users can also adjust or remove incorrectly tagged pictures.
Once a member has been identified, the app prompts him or her to approve the tag — a crucial privacy step, since he or she may not want to be labeled in a photo. It also works with a member’s current photo-privacy settings on Facebook.
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Face.com is also introducing a new Photo Tagger feature, dubbed Face Alerts, along with the launch. It allows members to be notified through Facebook or email when new public photos are uploaded of them or their friends. “It’s a Google Alerts for faces,” Mr. Hirsch said, and a way for members to gain more control over where their image appears.
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Photo Tagger is free, though he said Face.com is considering fee-based services that it could provide over the system. He declined to say what they might be.
Source: Digits, Wall Street Journal
Note: Not mentioned in the WSJ article is another service (it's a private alpha release at the moment) from Face.com named Photo Finder.
Here's how the service describes itself, "A powerful app for finding lost photos of you and your friends on Facebook." On another page it offers a clearer view of what Photo Finder does, " Photo Finder scans facebook photos looking for untagged faces of you and friends." As we said, it's a private alpha release but you can register for a logon/password here.
Although Photo Tagger has undergone months of testing and more testing it will worth watching to see if it can handle the massive number of Facebook users who will likely use the service for the first time in the next few days.
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