We’re following a promising new service from Polar Rose that combines the best of its facial recognition software with the images you upload to Facebook, Flickr, and 23HQ, allowing you to conveniently share images between friends across multiple sites.

The service is quite brilliant, as it does not require its users to register with Polar Rose; instead, it makes use of the Facebook account you already have. Simply put, it just works.

Facebook users simply go to the Polar Rose website (or visit the Polar Rose Facebook App page). After giving it the appropriate permissions, Polar Rose will download all your public images from Facebook and/or Flickr and will go to work processing them.

Polar Rose will recognize your friends’ faces in your pictures, allow you to tag the face with a name, and provide suggestions for images that do not have tags via use of its facial recognition technology.

Polar Rose is unique in that it is a single destination for consuming, recognizing, organizing and sharing of your photos across multiple sites. But this is just the beginning. We talked with vice-president of business development at Polar Rose, Mikkel Thagaard, who claims that Photobucket and Picasa are likely the next two sites that the Polar Rose service will support.

Sharing is done by means of a ‘view all photos’ page which allows you to view all you and your friends photos on one page with the most recent photos appearing first. You may also easily share images across sites (e.g. share a Flickr photo on Facebook) with included support for Twitter.

Whether it’s a single place to gather you or your friends images, or if you’re simply looking for a more convenient way to tag images, Polar Rose is certainly a service you’ll want to try.

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Entry was posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm under Internet, Social Media, Technology.

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