7 Billion Scanned Photos Later, Face.com Opens Up To Developers

Facial recognition technology startup Face.com publicly launched at last year's Techonomy event in Tel Aviv, Israel. Today thus marks an excellent time for them to make some announcements, as it is the evening prior to Techonomy 2010 , which I'm attending. The company is today publicly launching a developer community and open API, providing third-party developers access to their facial recognition technology, including the algorithm that powers their Facebook applications Photo Finder and Photo Tagger .