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Facebook shuts down Face.com APIs, Klik app
Less than a month after Face.com was acquired by Facebook, the social network is shutting down the facial-recognition software company's APIs.
The software company made a splash in 2009 when it released Photo Tagger, a free third-party application for Facebook that uses facial recognition technology to automatically tag photos of people, as well as a recognition-based alert service for Facebook. In 2010, Face.com released an open API to the public that allowed third-party developers to incorporate the technology in their apps.
However, according to an e-mail reprinted by The Next Web, Face.com representatives have begun notifying … Read more
