Facedeals, System Allows Automatic Facebook Check-ins With Facial Recognition

Facedeals is a system that uses facial recognition to enable automatic Facebook check-ins at businesses (video). Facedeal users are identified by a camera at the business and then can receive targeted offers from the business. Nashville- & Atlanta-based ad agency redpepper created the system and is currently testing it in the Nashville area.

Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it. A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers. The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among them), and the incentives for a check-in are not nearly enticing enough for us to take the time. So we set out to evolve the check-in and sweeten the deal, making both irresistible. We call it Facedeals.

Thanks Matt Reed!

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NYPD to Launch 'All-Seeing' 'Domain Awareness System'

Watching you.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced at a security forum in Aspen, Colorado on Saturday that Mayor Bloomberg will soon unveil the city's "Domain Awareness System," which the Associated Press describes as "all-seeing" program that combines several streams of information to track criminals and potential terrorists. It's not clear yet if the Big Brother-y sounding system will change the way the department already surveils civilians or criminals, or Muslims in New Jersey, but Kelly said at the forum that the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement databases. The city made the software in partnership with Microsoft, however Office Anti-Terrorist Edition will not be sold publicly.

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