First Screen Shots of Riya: "I was presented with a view of facial thumbnails of everyone in my photos. Riya asks that you begin to educate it by telling it who the people are…it then very quickly starts to auto-tag pictures with a surprising level of accuracy."

Interesting - sounds like a photographic Shazam

El Reg on I-mode: "There's no denying that i-mode is great. I love the way it works, the selection of content, the pricing structure, the speed of access and the bundled push email. Unfortunately, the NEC N411i just feels a little behind the times in today's world of super stylish and fully featured mobiles. NEC should be congratulated for getting i-mode handsets out so quickly, but something tells me that we'll be seeing far better examples in the near future."

What can I say, other than +1

Flirtomatic launches: "When it comes to anything mobile Europe has always been ahead of the U.S. For example, there have been mobile dating/mating applications over there for years. Flirtomatic, the latest player, launched yesterday and promises to be the new industry leader. It's very well designed, simple to use online or on your mobile phone and makes it easy to connect with people by introducing those who have similar interests."

And more here.

A preview of Flash Lite 2.0.

Two work-related announcements:

1. Flirtomatic has entered its public beta - go peek! We've been working on this service for almost a year now, there's a lot to it. I'm going to write more about this in the coming months.

2. For local folks, we're running a competition for this years dScape event: "send words, pictures and video clips from your mobile phone that represent 'your Brighton' to 07811 407 760". "We're going to need a montage..."