Newest Update on Facebook

Last July 1, 2010 ( July 2, 2010 in Philippines) the social networking site Facebook also known as FB launches its newest feature that has the capability of face recognition on Facebook Photos. It allows people to semi-automatically tagged each of their friend on the newly uploaded photos.
"Most people spend their time uploading, browsing and tagging their photos. (Tagging) can be a tedious process (but) you now can add tags directly from your home page and other sections of the site, using the same face detection technology that cameras have used for years," said Facebook developer Sam Odio on Facebook's official blog( Source: GMA News)

The newest feature will automatically highlight the uploaded photos on facebook and will asks the user " Who's face is this?

"With this new feature, tagging is faster since you don't need to select a face. It's already selected for you, just like those rectangles you see around your friends' faces when you take a photo with a modern digital camera,"  says Odio.



There were no specifications on the software used by facebook with the new face recognition feature but it has similar functions to the software that digital cameras use to recognize the face.

Also Odio added that 99 percent of facebook users uploaded atleast one photo and more than a hundred millions of photos are uploaded everyday. ( Source: GMA News)