Published June 19, 2009.
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By steffentchr.
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Our good friends from Polar Rose launched support for 23 yesterday — and today we’re very excited to announce face recognition on 23: We’ll now be making it very easy to find and name people in your photos on the site.
First, what Polar Rose does is both very simple and very tricky: They look through your photos − you can select if you want this to be only your public photos − and then find people or faces in those photos. Their brand of magic groups those people so you can easily find multiple photos of the same person, name the people in the photos and see who’s appearing next to whom in your snapshots.
So we promised it would be easy? 23 now sports a new tabs called “Faces”. When you click the tabs you’ll find a short description of how we’re integrating with Polar Rose; and to allow Polar Rose to index and match your photos, simply click the “Match faces in my 23 photos” button:
Now, you’ll be asked to log in via Facebook Connect and select how you want the facial recognition service to handle your photos.
Finally, when you’re done naming people on Polar Rose, you’ll see that your 23 photos now have fotonotes outlining the people you’ve been photographing — and that you get links to all the photos the people are appearing in. Polar Rose will even push information about the people in your 23 photos to your Facebook friends.
We’ve been happy to be the second photo sharing site to be featured on Polar Rose’s wonderful service; and this is only the first step. In the future we’re hoping to bring you even tighter integration on this new service.
Comments:
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[...] on the heels of yesterday’s Avedon release, 23 and Polar Rose now bring you a totally integrated experience! From yesterday users could sign up from the Polar Rose site and select 23 as a photo source, [...]
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Good service, but after a quick tour with my girlfriend facebook account I’ve deleted my polar rose account, I will get in again when it will be possible to sign in with another method.
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@pregnantboy: We started out linking your Flickr photos with your Facebook friends. Adding 23 is the first step for us becoming a cross domain platform for photo sharing services. More photo repositories will be added next to Flickr and 23 and we are working (hard) on expanding the friend range as well adding more options next to Facebook/Facebook Connect.
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Yeah I Know I’ve replied at the question about my favourite log in method on Get Satisfaction! Keep on the good work, I will be happy to reactivate again an account when it will be possible. Thanks ;).
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Good idea. I won’t use this though until it is possible to not connect Facebook with my pictures.