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Face.com's API now recognizes moods

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Re: Face.com's API now recognizes moods

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whats the availability of this for open source? it would be fun to hack with

I didn't find anything specific to open source, but in their FAQ[1] they say:

10. Is your API free?

Yes, our API is free, requires attribution and is subject to Rate Limiting. If necessary, these limits are also expandable for free through our Whitelisting program.

[1] http://developers.face.com/docs/faq/

Re: Face.com's API now recognizes moods

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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is already confirmed so payment is a breeze, perhaps a pin for extra security. Just a funky idea of what I could see sometime from now.

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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy. Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is alread…

Seems like a whole lot of technology solving a problem I don't think many people have.

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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy. Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is alread…

Seems like a whole lot of technology solving a problem I don't think many people have.

Let's keep in mind that they could already do this, relatively trivially, with far less technology, except you'd hand them your credit card first, instead of last.

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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy. Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is alread…

I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Umm yeah. How would that work exactly?

One person's privacy issue is another person's feature request.

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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy. Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is alread…

The main big negative implication that I can think of (and that caused Google to back off the research) is governments using it for surveillance. I think a lot of the potential features of the technology could be really cool, but that's a pretty serious negative.
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