discovery

face. com is a website that offers face detection and recognition API services.

The API is able to detect faces from an image and match the faces found to your friends on Facebook and Twitter via Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect.

The site offers a very nice demo to let you experience the functionality before digging to deep to the source code. The API is efficient on detection but rather weak on face recognition.

1. Think about the mobile device. Recognize its limitations (small screen, no mouse), but also think about its extra capabilities (it’s a phone, a camera, a text device…).

2. Think about the mobile user. Think “fast access to short bits of content.”

3. Keep it simple. Use short, direct sentences. Make navigation easy. Don’t expect people to fill out long forms. Let people find things with as few clicks as possible.

4. Keep it fast. Lots of video, animation, or large image files slow down your site. Keep them to a minimum.

Research In Motion release the BlackBerry Widget Packager in late 2009 for web developer who are willing to develop web content driven application on BlackBerry a shortcut to success. Here is the description about the package on the BlackBerry website.