Among the latest offering from the Facebook is is new facial recognition technology, [...]]]> Tej Kohli is a well known technocrat with years of experience in technology related things. Today, on this blog, Tej Kohli shares the news about a new Facebook Technology which has not been taken too well by the critics.

Among the latest offering from the Facebook is is new facial recognition technology, which has been launched in couple of the countries outside US. And as usual, the default setting is opt in, instead of opt out. This, in other words, mean that if you don’t want to be automatically tagged on pictures, you had better inform Facebook.

A guy named Graham Cluley, who is a senior technology consultant at Sophos has written an informative post on his blog, telling people about how to disable this feature in case they find it disturbing.

Facebook servers contains about zillions of photographs. And as the people in your friend list upload pictures in their albums, Facebook will try to find out if any of the pictures resemble you. And if they discover your match, or so what they believe, they may suggest your friend to tag you with your name.

While the tagging is still done by your friends, the Facebook is rather creepily pushing your friends to go ahead and tag you.

Tej Kohli would like to bring to your notice that Facebook doesn’t give users any right to pre-approve the tags. Instead, its your responsibility to untag yourself in any photo.

As Mr. Cluley explains, if you don’t see a setting “Suggest photos of me to friends” it simply means your profile has not been updated.

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If you’re one of those who like saying “like”, you’re, like totally gonna like the Facebook’s new evolution.

Sorry if I’ve already begun to talk like a valley girl, but I really have no better way to explain!

The [...]]]> Facebook’s LIKE button may soon be everywhere, says a new report. Read the detailed report at Tej Kohli Blog.

If you’re one of those who like saying “like”, you’re, like totally gonna like the Facebook’s new evolution.

Sorry if I’ve already begun to talk like a valley girl, but I really have no better way to explain!

The recent changes in the Facebook are all about the word “like”. The social networking site in the process of adding a few updates to its service, and they focus primarily on the ‘like’ button.

As yet, the announcements made by the company has concentrated on what’s within its website. Facebook has officially changed the wordage on its pages, which are used by celebrities and companies. Now, instead of clicking “become a fan” button on a Facebook page, you can simply click “like” button, just as you do to like a status update, or photograph for that matter.

Although this may look like a minor difference to the user, but it represents something far more significant.

The altered wording is followed by a stronger push to get users ‘like’ public pages. Users will automatically start receiving Facebook pages suggestions based on the things you’ve mentioned in your profile like your favorite movie or a brand. On accepting the Facebook’s auto-generated invitations, the plain text in your profile will be replaced by a link to the page you just ‘liked’, making it accessible to everyone.

“Once you make your choice, any text you’d previously had for the current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests sections of your profile will be replaced by links to these pages,” Facebook engineer Alex Li explains in an official blog posting. “If you would still like to express yourself with free-form text, you can still use the ‘Bio’ section of your profile.”

Sounds confusing? Hold on for its about to get even more perplexing.

Imagine a universal ‘like’ button! Yes, the Facebook is mulling over plans to expand its “like”trend all across the cyberspace. This not-yet-confirmed plan would enable third party blog and news websites to add Facebook “Like” button on their own pages.

The new york time explains it as follows: “Similar to the Facebook ‘Share’ buttons that are already popular with many Web sites, the ‘Like’ buttons will make it easier for Web publishers to offer more social experiences, in essence allowing Facebook friends to enjoy those sites together.”

And what’s more?

“While ‘Share’ buttons allow users to post links that their friends see on their Facebook pages, those links are fleeting,” The Times says. “The ‘Like’ button will allow Facebook to keep a record of what a user linked to, providing the company with ever more data about people’s preferences. Facebook, in turn, plans to share that data with Web publishers, so that a magazine Web site, for instance, may be able to show users all the articles that their friends like.”

While the Facebook has not directly denied or confirmed the imminent launch of a universal “like” button, it is saying some reports about the feature are outright wrong. A report publish in the financial times which stated that the web side system would keep track of the user’s behavior around the web so as to offer behaviorally targeted advertisements back at Facebook.com. However, a Facebook spokesperson refuted the reports as totally baseless. She said that the company has no plans to change its ‘ad offerings or ad policies.’

It is expected that Facebook would unveil its universal like button at its F8 conference on Wednesday.

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