Those preferences, he explained, would then be encoded as software tags that traveled with the person's data.
TiVo and DirectTV receivers offering the service may display software tags developed by TiVo on advertisements, enabling viewers to click their remote to obtain more information about a product, TiVo said in a news release and in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Whatever Digital Renaissance learnt in its eight years has now been rolled into this software (TAG)," says Kocho.
Apple application developer, Gravity Applications, recently launched a tagging software, Tags, that allows Mac users to tag all their files, including emails, bookmarks, pictures and files.
There is also a Mesh SDK so that developers can create their own software Tags to work with the Mesh hardware if they want to build more advanced custom projects.
There are also software Tags within the Mesh companion app that can be incorporated into the mix, to — for instance — incorporate alerts based on weather services, or plug in specific tablet hardware such as the camera, microphone or speaker to the connected project.
Hotels in the UK use facial recognition to remind concierges of guest names, and casinos are using the software to tag and identify cheaters.
"Other than playing the video through the software, and tagging it, an officer has no access to the recording," says Michael Baumann, digital video product manager at Data911, a company that manufactures dashboard cameras. .
The shadow of surveillance looms large with Google Glass touting its facial recognition software, face-tagging returning to Facebook (that's right, it's baa-aack), and drones developing new ways to identify their targets.
After the MALDI-FT-ICR spectra were loaded into Peptrix™ software package, they were each tagged with a group number (1, 2 and 3 for PP MScl, RR MScl and controls respectively).
The forum report suggests a future in which all collected data would be tagged with software code that included an individual's preferences for how his or her data is used.
