Tag archive: celebrity

Just yesterday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was saying that the company wouldn't be developing a facial recognition database. Now, a patent has been published by the USPTO entitled: “Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications”. The timing is bad considering all the negative press about Google lately. The Google engineers state in the celebrity facial recognition patent that, by feeding a… Read More

There is finally a good reason to tweet: James Franco may read it. The oscar-nominated actor has joined Facebook and Twitter. That's right, the living legend, the co-host of the Academy Awards, the man himself, James Franco! Not familiar? He was Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man movies. He was also in Flyboys. Franco has been known for doing whatever the hell he wants and his abrupt and late entrance into social media means his fans may… Read More

Facebook might be getting all the media attention lately, but MySpace is still the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking sphere, and its never shown any hesitation to hitch its wagon to anything that might bring eyeballs and mouseclicks its way. Today, the site launched MySpace Celebrity, a new content channel where MySpace users can keep up on entertainment news, blogs, videos, and events…as well as server as a central point… Read More

Online retailing powerhouse Amazon.com announced today that, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, randomly selected Amazon customers around the United States will find a celebrity, actor, athlete, musician, or author delivering their merchandise along with a UPS driver. Amazon will also be showing webcasts of these special deliveries beginning July 7 on the Amazon.com site. Celebrities currently scheduled to take part include actors… Read More