Google grabs facial-recognition ‘ware firm’; The Register Google has bought a facial recognition company called pittpatt. The Takeaway: The acquisition looks a little curious in light of comments by Eric Schmidt at Google’s ‘Big Tent’ privacy conference in May to the effect that facial recognition technology creeped him out, and in which the company co-founder seemed…

Part of the Social Media Marketing Strategy Course – Week long Intensive New York, July 22, 2011: This panel presentation will provide students of SCPS’s Social Media Marketing Strategy and Execution course with an overview of Facebook’s algorithmic basics and its larger marketing value.  Panelists will present case studies, audience growth and management strategies, and…