Tag archive: Tagging

The recent deployment of “Tag Suggestions” on Facebook has been a hot topic of discussion for activists seeking more privacy controls. The Facebook feature is currently turned on for all users and uses facial recognition patterns to help users tag friends in photos. The software compares newly uploaded photos to previously tagged photos to search for a facial match. Users can easily opt out of allowing their face to by tagged in… Read More

There’s no denying that Facebook’s photo tagging feature, once exclusively used to identify the various college kids’ in drunken party photos, has become something of a vital social networking function. Whether or not Facebook knew tagging would be such a valuable asset or not (and as these things usually go with Facebook, it's safe to say it did), it’s now officially the company’s intellectual property. Facebook was awarded a patent for… Read More

According to Facebook, 100 million photo tags are added on the site each day. The social networking is largely responsible for the popularity of “tagging” photos, and it has arguably become the most popular way to label and share photos. Now, Facebook will do it for you. When Facebook introduced its Photos update earlier this year, it allowed you to group people who often appear throughout the same album – called group tagging. Then, you didn’t… Read More

Path hopes to bring close friends a lot closer. Launching today, the new social network is calling itself a “personal network” and is only intended for you and your closest friends and family. It is only available on the iPhone–trying to log in through the web will lead to a terrible dead end, devoid of content or any way to add friends. The social site, co-founded by Shawn Fanning, the creator of Napster, limits your friends… Read More

iBiquity Digital has announced a new free service called iTunes Tagging coming to select HD radios which will enable HD radio listeners to flag songs they hear over their HD radios for later purchase via Apple's iTunes store. Developed in conjunction with Apple and major broadcasting groups, iTunes Tagging will work via a dedicated Tag button which will first appear on the new Polk I-Sonic Entertainment System 2 and the JBL iHD HD… Read More