On: Facebook Wins Patents For Tagging in Photos, Other Digital Media

[btucker]

I remember a site produced for WWW2004 (May '04) which had this functionality. The wayback machine has some of it: http://replay.web.archive.org/20041217231727/http://w3photo.... I haven't read through the actual patent, but it would seem like possible prior art.

[edit] it was built with this: http://fotonotes.net/

[smackfu → btucker]

The main claim in this patent is about you tagging a person and them being notified and allowing them to reject the tag.

[neilk → smackfu]

Really? I seem to recall that Facebook didn't allow you to refuse being tagged in a photo until recently.

Flickr went out of their way to make their photo tagging privacy-friendly back in 2008-09. Is Facebook now claiming something Flickr pioneered?

I don't know much about what FB was like at the time; I barely used it. I'm not accusing, just asking.