Client News: Photo Finder for Facebook launches in alpha
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Some great client news today. Face.com, headquartered in Tel Aviv Israel and New York, NY recently started working with us. They have created amazing facial recognition technology; it works amazingly well. The first deployment of that technology is an app for Facebook called Photo Finder.
At 8AM PST today, they announced the launch of Photo Finder in closed, invite-only alpha. They chose to skip using a press release this time, and insteady announce themselves to the world via a blog post by Gil Hirsch, CEO and co-founder of Face.com. You can see that blog announcement here.
A number of blogs and news outlets covered the launch today, see the list below. We will update the list as coverage comes in.
We have some “client news” this morning, though today is a special case. Legacy Locker is announcing themselves to the world, but they are not a standard client. This company was incubated right here at Stage Two by Jeremy Toeman and Adam Burg, principals of Stage Two Consulting. An external team has been put in place to build and manage the site, and we’re excited to see that work fall under the scrutinizing lens of the media and blogosphere.