Picasa Adds Facial Recognition And Geo-Tagging To Its Desktop App

It took a whole year, but Google is finally adding the facial recognition features you can find in Picasa Web albums to its desktop app. With today's release of Picasa 3.5 , when you add a name tag, it scans your entire photo library and applies that name to every match. If it's not sure it's the same face, it gives you the option to apply the tag. To help you tag people, Picasa auto-completes names from your Google contacts when you start typing a name. And you can also geo-tag a photo by marking a photo on Google Maps. TechCrunch50 Conference 2009 : September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco