Anyway, 90s have past and most of us stopped organising photographs in shoe boxes or traditional albums, a lot of years ago. In contrast, we try to organise them in hard disks and in related web services, such as Flickr. But how do those services help us to organise our photographs? Or, maybe, they do not?

When?

Digital cameras are clever enough to record and store a photography’s shoot time. Flickr uses that property to produce photo archives. However, when I come back in a year I won’t remember when I had that visit to Ashton Memorial. In fact, I find it hard to remember even now.

It would be nice, if we were able to place events on archives, such as on calendar applications. For example, I could mark that in October 28th I had a “Visit to Ashton Memorial with Andria and Andreas”. Besides, Flickr based on that information could create automatically a photoset as iPhoto does and a timeline, which will include all the events in chronological order.

Where?

Flickr geotagged photos is a possible answer to this question. As far as I know, Picassa supports geotagging with Google Earth, as well. However, since GPS enabled cameras are available already, there are a lot more to be taken under consideration. What about marking a place with something more familiar to us, for example “Marios’s house” , instead of plain longitude and latitude values.

Who?

Probably the most interesting and tough part. But there is some light on the horizon: Google supports that upcoming versions of Picasa software will support face and object recognition, among others features.