Courtesy of Richard Price, again.

1.) www.riya.com, great facial recognition technology for photos. you upload all your photos, ‘educate’ it a bit by telling who is who in some photos, and then it recognizes where those people appear in other photos and labels them. apparently 35 billion photos are going to be taken by mobile phone cameras this year so the photo industry is a very exciting place to be!

2.) Toshiba’s plan is that you take a photo of a bar code of a product, and then toshiba looks up comments on that product on blogs and sends your phone ratings of the product and blog comments.

3.) www.dpolls.com, this is a technology that allows you to run a poll on your website, free and no hassle.

4.) www.hamachi.cc, this allows you to set up a secure network over the internet between family/colleagues etc so you can securely share files etc.

5.) www.yousendit.com, this allows you to email files of up to 1GB. Basically you upload the file to the site, enter the email address, and the recipient gets a link to the site where they can download the file from.

6.) retrievr, you draw a picture on the site and the site retrieves photos from flickr that resemble what you’ve drawn. It seems a useful way of searching through the flickr database.

7.) www.echosign.com, you email an agreement to someone that you need to be signed; they fax it to your special echosign fax number; echosign automatically turns the fax into a pdf and emails it to you so you get an easier-to-manage soft copy.