Much like the Eternal Moonwalk MJ tribute online, Lifeline to Haiti encourages you to upload your picture and donate $3 to help raise $2M to support the Clinton Bush Haiti fund.
Motion Portait Park out of Japan specialize in 3D face morphing technology and have released an iPhone app that lets you age a picture of yourself to see what you would look like in the future. You can buy it for 0.99 at the appstore here.
For our purple peeps, there are some fun things on the Flickr Developer blog that might trigger some ideas. Bit techy, but you don’t need to get stuck into the details 
Just because it’s one of those days. Who doesn’t love a unicorn? Send a Christmas unicorn to your friends. Happy Holidays !
And just because….43 million views?!! WTF
I love this! 10,000 images from Tumblr on one page.
Another innovative use of the Facebook platform in a campaign for IKEA by Forsman and Bodenfors. This time, using the tagging feature in Facebook to promote the opening of a new Ikea store in Malmo, Sweden.
The campaign started with a profile of the store’s manager, Gordon Gustavsson being created. Gustavsson uploaded pictures of the store’s showrooms to his photo album and any “friends” who tagged the products with their names first, would win the products. Very clever!
Face.com has released it’s Facial recognition tagging app for Facebook called ‘Photo Tagger’. It scans your FB photo’s and lets you tag faces it identifies, grouping multiple shots to make it easy to tag large albums or edit tagged ones.
Once a ‘friend’ is identified, the app prompts him or her to approve the tag — a crucial privacy step, since he or she may not want to be labeled in a photo. It also works with a member’s current photo-privacy settings on Facebook.
The app also comes with a new Photo Tagger feature, dubbed ‘Face Alerts’, which is like ‘Google Alerts’ for faces. You’re notified via FB or email when new public photos of you or your friends are uploaded. More from WSJ here.
Poladroid is a neat (& free!) little program that lets you drag and drop your digital pics on your desktop and turn them into polaroid look-a-likes to share or print. There’s even a nice community of poladroid users sharing their retro pics on flickr. Wouldn’t something like this make a nice little branded application for HP?
Adobe have released their Photoshop app for iPhone app and it’s really user-friendly, well designed and simple to use. So even if you’re not a PS pro, you can download it and test it out!
Five students from Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore have created Photosketch, an exciting new program that translates simple sketches into seamless photomontages created from images pulled from the web.
Photosketch users draw a bare bones sketch and layout of the image they’d like to create, labeling each item with a basic i.d. Photosketch then searches the web for matching photos and then uses a blending algorithm to figure out which images would work best for the process. The result is a startling photo image based on the original layout. (From: Creativity)
Here’s a link to download the source code if you want to try it out!