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Face Fun by Taptivate
Face Fun is an iPhone app, using the face.com API and allows you to swap your friend’s faces with your iPhone. They’re using our faces.detect method to locate faces in the taken photo and exchange them for weirdly fun results. Check it out: http://taptivate.com/facefun/
Networking Problem – Fixed
Due to a networking problem with our hosting service, our API has been inaccessible for about twenty minutes early this morning. We are currently in the process of upgrading our entire servers infrastructure to increase the quality of service and robustness to prevent any such outages. Sorry for the inconvenience. The Face.com Team.
Deprecating Old Facebook Authentication – Use Only OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens
Starting October 1st all apps working with Facebook Connect must switch to the new OAuth flows. As a result, the face.com API will also deprecate Facebook authentication with FB sessions and support only the OAuth 2.0 access tokens. Until now your applications could authenticate with Facebook either using an OAuth access token, or a Facebook [...]
Face.com API now supported with SSL
Recently we received several requests from our developers to support API calls under SSL. Starting today, the face.com API is supporting https calls. The good old regular http protocol is supported as well and nothing will change in the currently running applications that use the API. To allow developers to test the https connection we [...]
$5,000 Developer Challenge by Android Homecoming & Face.com
Face.com and The Droid Guy are teaming up to bring you the Android Homecoming $5,000 Developer Challenge: Come up with a radical, mobile way to use Face.com’s face recognition API and developer tools in your next big app. Check out entry details here Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared [...]
Ruby on Rails API for Face.com
Roc Yu just sent us a link to his RoR implementation for the face.com API. Awesome work dude. Get it here: https://github.com/rociiu/face Or here: https://rubygems.org/gems/face Check out our official and 3rd party client library support right here.
Face.com API – Now also in Java
We would like to thank Marlon Hendred for publishing a Java client library for face.com’s API. Face.com REST API is also available in PHP, JS, C#, Python and AS3. Check out our download page, for the download links. — face.com team
Just for you flash developers: ActionScript 3.0 Client Library
Jean Nawratil was kind enough to publish his ActionScript 3.0 wrapper for the face.com API. So now, it is easier than ever to develop cool flash applications using the face.com API. Check out our download page, for the link and more libraries. Jean also wrote a small tutorial on his blog at http://www.meta-for.net (English translation: [...]
New Client Libraries for Python and C# developers
When we launched the API, about 2 month ago, we provided 2 client libraries for easier development above the REST API. We now added links for 2 more libraries in our download page, contributed by developers, who have done great work wrapping the API in Python and C#. A Python library was created by Tomaž [...]
Improved usage flow of faces.train
As part of our continuous effort to improve API performance and flow, we are pushing a small change in the faces.train API method. Faces.train is a potentially long operation. When used with long uids list, or with friends@facebook keyword, it may create a work queue of thousands of photos. There is no point waiting for [...]