Indexing Digital Photos

Just read an interesting article from Wired Magazine. Tried to find it online but I guess it is too new. Basically the premise is that the next major wave for digital photography for consumers is managing their growing collection of digital photos.

Think about it - who really deletes their digital photos. I have over 2k pictures and growing. So how does one find a particular picture?? You can always go by date which is the easiest. But how about finding all of the pictures of a particular family member. That would be tough so the only "time consuming" thing to do is to tag your pictures. But who has the time?? The article points out that maybe software will be smarter to recognize faces etc. but I find this a huge task for any software program. Or, maybe cameras will tag each picture with the location of the photo using GPS.

This is a pretty cool problem because there needs to be a solution. I smell a business opportunity...