People Dots and Privacy
Published November 16, 2010Have you tried out the new People Dots feature yet? Our last post covered the benefits of our newest feature – which gives you the ability to label pictures of friends and public figures with their social profile from Twitter or Facebook. When we created People Dots we thought carefully about the implications of making it possible to bring social tags to the open web – beyond the walls of social networks – and we tried to anticipate the concerns publishers and their site visitors might have when it comes to privacy.
We started by honoring the privacy guidelines already set out by Twitter and Facebook. When a site visitor mouses over an image containing People Dots, the visitor can only see publicly the available… Continue reading
Introducing People Dots: Label Your Friends, It’s Just That Simple
Published September 15, 2010If you use Facebook or Flickr, you probably enjoy tagging people in the photos you upload. It’s a fun way to share your experiences with your friends and family and add additional info to your photos.
But what if you want to host your photos outside those networks, on your own site or blog? You have more control over design and experience, but the tradeoff is it’s more difficult to interact with the people in the photos.
Let’s say you have a photo blog where you’ve uploaded pictures of you and some new friends you made on a camping trip. Now you want to reconnect and let them know you’ve added some pictures of them. What were all their email addresses again…? Wouldn’t it be… Continue reading
