Polar Rose, a facial recognition based search engine that allows you to find photos of people by their name, is getting ready to enter public beta.  Yesterday I received an e-mail from them with my invite (at last, I was subscribed since around November 2006!), and their blog states that they have  a “public beta coming up“. Polar Rose works by...

This one is for the people who often ask me, when I embark on another “for pleasure” project, “when are you going to do something that makes some money?”.  Well, how about this for an example: Marco Kaiser, a german developer, had his own little personal project called Twhirl.  Twhirl is a Twitter client written for Adobe’s AIR...