In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa , the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.
Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based on the similarity between their face in the picture and the tags you already put in place for them.
The facial recognition technology comes to Picasa thanks to an acquisition Google made in 2006 of Neven Vision , a company that specialized in matching facial detail with images already found in a centralized database. Picasa’a facial recognition technology works in much the same way.
There’s no telling if the facial recognition technology will be able to accurately ident...
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Prototype Extension: Dynamic Script Pattern SupportFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 09:02:36
Cody Swann was working on a web application that was using the Dynamic Script Pattern , which Dojo has excellent support for , but Prototype didn’t.
Cody then extended Prototype to support ScriptSrcTransport similarly to how Dojo does it.
The code below support the Simple, Polling and JSONP and JSON Callbacks described in the Dojo book.
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Ajax = Object.extend(Ajax,{
getTransport: function(trans...
more Qooxdoox releases version 0.6 RC1From: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 11:47:59
Qooxdoo (pronounced “cooks-do”) has released version 0.6 RC 1 . This framework has come a long way since our first post on it over a year ago. Qooxdoo is a LGPL javascript framework with a rich set of widgets and supports namespaces, events, drag and drop, and layouts. For a quick look, check out the demos (particularily the “at-a-glance demo” ), or go straight to the download page.
Details on this release:
widgets based on the on th...
more Facebook adds blog-like notes featureFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 11:34:01
A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API , social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool.
The best thing about the new notes tool may be that users can syndicate the full contents of other blogs elsewhere onto their Facebook page and individual imported entries can be commented on in Facebook. Blog posts, or notes as the company prefers they are called, can be tagged ...
more Nimbuzz releases full featured mobile communication softwareFrom: ajax-blog.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 14:12:12
Oliver over at MobileCrunch posted exclusive coverage this morning of a new free service called Nimbuzz that he believes could really shake up the mobile world. Users can IM with MSN and GoogleTalk users in individual and group chats, send SMS around the world for ten cents, leave and retrieve messages and call anywhere in the world for the price of a local call. Users can also send quick buzzes, or single rings, to each other for notification of something important. Nimbuzz communica...
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