Microsoft e-diary would store it all
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
A small team of Microsoft researchers is devising software for an electronic diary that can keep track of a multitude of everyday details in a person's life -- the e-mail sent, the family photographs taken, the phone calls made, the Web pages visited -- in a single database. This personal database could then be searched to find out, say, exactly who was at the wedding 10 years ago, or just where that camping trip was eight summers back.
The software is bound to be superior to standard ways of storing memories -- photographs in a shoebox, for instance -- said Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.