I'm not sure my Toshiba tablet PC is going to seem very sexy compared to suede-covered laptops and notebooks trimmed with leather, chrome, or wood.  I could see myself buying a leather-bound tablet PC - I used to have a leather-bound day planner...

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Have you seen Riya (http://www.riya.com/)?  If this stuff works as advertised it is going to be very, very cool.  You upload a training set of photos and provide the names of the people in your photos.  The software will then automatically annotate new photos with the names of the people in those photos!!!  Yeah, I know - cool.  Very cool.

Also very compelling is their software called Viggly that "looks at all the text contained in your pictures, and indexes it so that next time you go to L.A. up Beachwood Drive to take a snapshot, all the pictures of your trip will be automagically tagged as 'HOLLYWOOD'!"  Yeah, I know - cool.  Very cool.

Jordy - Have anything to add to this?  You experimented in the facial recognition business.  Why did you drop the idea?  What kind of really hard problems are the Riya folks going to run into?

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I recently listened to the Skylook (www.skylook.biz) interview on Venture Voice from August 2005 (http://www.venturevoice.com/2005/08/vv_show_9_-_jer.html).  Skylook ties together Skype and Outlook.  If you are frequent Skype user it has a few compelling features that are certainly worth the tiny price tag: "Skype™ Voice Calls (as MP3), Instant Messages, Email, Appointments, Contacts all organized and under control in Microsoft Outlook".  It is a cool idea but from what I can see the feature list is pretty short.  These guys are going to be constantly looking over their shoulder in fear that Skype will start shipping all the same features.  Hopefully Skype (well, eBay) just buys their technology.  Otherwise Skylook is in a risky position - they might wake up one day to discover Skype has destroyed their market with a free offering.

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