Incognito

[beamjockey]

Remember my animation of J. R. Eyerman's classic Life photo of an audience watching a 3-D movie?

A relatively new feature in Picasa, Google's photo-hosting service, identifies human faces in photos, and urges the user to name the faces' owners, so that it might recognize people in further photos.

Today I saw what Picasa had done to Eyerman's photo:


This can be read as epitomizing the relentless hunger of Google and other online services for more information about us and our fellow humans.

"Click to name! Who are they? WHO ARE THEY??? TELL ME!"

Sorry, Google, I don't know the names of any of these people.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Aren't they all descendants of President Zinkafoos?

(Running gag from an old radio comedy show. Zinkafoos was a President of the United States who was so unmemorable he didn't make it into the history books. It may actually be spelled Zikafoos or some other variant; I've only heard it spoken.)

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

It's rather scary though don't you think. Big brother Google will soon know who we all are, at least all of us who have photos on-line. I wonder, maybe you should label them all as famous people, Einstein, Edison, Jesus, Buddah, etc.