Facebook acquired face.com – That makes facial recognition software that helps recognize and tag photos on social networking sites. This is the latest addition to the facebook’s acquisition series, after the Instagram.
Face.com released an iPhone app called Klik, which automatically scans photos and can identify people through facial databases that it has collected. and the The company claims on its website that it has already scanned billions of photos through social networking sites. Such a feature can add more value to facebook with this new acquisition.
This tells us why facebook.com is still leading the social media market, when the old players like Hi5 and orkut failed. facebook is always improving…so that people would be curious to try out new things and keep connecting with each other.