Micro Persuasion's Steve Rubel posted about the up and coming launch of Riya, a photo search site that allows you to search for people within digital photographs.

One of the comments to the post reflected my own initial thoughts: 1) this is a cool idea and 2) is all this really necessary? After pondering this and several other slightly paranoid possibilities, I was intrigued enough to learn more.

After researching the purpose, taking the tour, and reading about its development, I can see how this can be a life-saving (yes, life-saving) tool for digital photographers. But the most convincing reason to use this product was noted in one of Munjal Shah’s blog posts -- After all, it's not too out there to think that we'll all come across our own issues with 31,000 (and counting) digital photos to deal with.