Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

I alone take an average of 10 photographs daily and given the huge population having their hands at camera; be it their cybershots or those integrated in their mobiles, there are billions of images being taken everyday. But there is only a very small percentage of these images that make it to image uploading networks and almost 90% of them remain locked in our hard drives.

iLovePhotos comes with a bid to raise this number by leaps and bounds (or at least it claims to). It  makes the task of sharing your images with friends worldwide and organizing each one of them over them much easier. Using various techniques, face detection being one of them. It appears interesting that the software recognizes a face, creates a folder for it and then organizes images that resemble the face detected into the folder.

So if you have your girl friend’s photo uploaded, you don’t have to worry about sorting her pictures out and manually copying them in the folder, let iLovePhotos do that for you.

Another interesting aspect is the easing of sharing images. Just like organizing, sharing at iLovePhotos is not manual but plain automatic, using the autopilot feature in their own words:

iLovePhotos was designed from the ground up with the idea that sharing should be natural and easy. We made it so easy, it’s automatic. Sharing photos with those you care about has never been this easy.

Face recognition is gaining widespread popularity with softwares like TinEye and others like Google’s Picassa, but then Google’s product are for Windows only and it is here a problem arises with iLovePhotos as Dean Takahashi puts it:

One of the problems is that iPhoto is already a pretty cool application for Mac photo lovers. And iLovePhotos suffers from the same problem that a lot of start-ups have. Its software is more like a cool feature, not a product in itself.

That definitely makes it appear more of an add-on rather a stand-alone product, but I guess its a bit too harsh to put it down this way and I for one would give credit to iLovePhotos for the features it offers at photo organizing and sharing.