Archive for September, 2008
Google’s Picasa to Launch Face Recognition
Big day for Google: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10026577-39.html
With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
The “name tag”.
Google’s OS (aka Chrome)
Hopefully Microsoft sees this as the threat to XP that it is:
http://www.google.com/chrome
I haven’t played with it too much yet, but is this a replacement for FireFox? My friend Pete (Yettas) claims it’s extremely fast, which is the biggest complaint I hear about FF.
March ‘09 Update: Aside from the questionable first sentence of this blog post.

