Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all
Less than a month after it was acquired by Facebook, face-recognition startup Face.com is shutting down its developer APIs and killing off its iOS app, in a dramatic about-face from earlier statements by its founder. As of July 9, a notice on the Face.com homepage reads, "Face.com has been acquired by Facebook, and as part of …
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Re: I'll get it in first
Shouldn't it be:
All your face belong to us..
Re: I'll get it in first
'All your face belong to us...'
'epic fail' of meme recognition
What a magnanimous
What a magnanimous business Facebook is.
Get moving or lose it, and oh there is a reasonable alternative.
I want my money and time back thank you.
Will the deadline
Of the 20th July be enough?
Shouldn't that read as 'sit and swivel on it, we don't give a **** about any of you and you ain't going to be able to do anything about it anyhow!'
Re: What a magnanimous
"What a magnanimous business Facebook is.
Get moving or lose it, and oh there is a reasonable alternative.
I want my money and time back thank you."
Obviously you checked the T&Cs when signing up?
This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
I used it on a picture of a willy and it ID'd as David Cameron.
Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
So they DID get it working then.
Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
No not at all, this was a circumcised one, and it was a dead ringer for Jasper Carrot - uncanny!
Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
I hate to think what else you have in your JPEG collection...
Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
Dude, you should see one that looks like a 1982 publicity shot for Bucksfizz!
Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...
And it promptly got pulled...
But isn't cloud supposed to be perfect?
Just leave it a couple of years until there are large numbers of real businesses who are dependent on this sort of service through other "cloud" providers who integrate third party services.
Then we'll see some proper enterprise complaining when key services disappear or become useless because evil globo-corp (or worse, Murdoch) has bought them and shut off all the cheap and free access. I'm sure none of the outsourcing will be reversed but there will be lots of angry complaining and Barclays grade denial from CIOs that any of it was their fault...
Re: Face.com ain't the only game in the Facial Recognition Software (FRS) arena
A "company" with a yahoo.com contact address!
So when are we going to see the secure log on to facebook with your video camera app?
me cant wait [NOT!]
Oh and I forgot to add the slogan "we securely store and encrypt all your third party website passwords so you can just log in with your face.........simples"
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