Faces

Picasa is all nifty and stuff, but the word on the street is that this coming Sept. Microsoft will be releasing an update to their Windows Live Photo Gallery that will recognize your friends. And automatically tag your pictures with their names.

So imagine this. After tagging one or two pictures of family members, friends, and acquaintances, Photo Gallery will take it from there, and you'll be able to search, for example, for all pictures of "Zachary" and "Esther" taken during Christmas 2005.

Or pictures of just Monica.

And who is that guy in the back whose name we all forgot? If he was ever tagged before, Windows Live Photo Gallery will remind you.

Pretty cool, huh?