Face detection is now standard among photo management software. Facebook, iPhoto and Picasa Web Albums have it. I believe if you're going to spend hours organising and tagging your photos, they should be permanent, that means you should be able to share/export them, and they shouldn't be in a proprietary format (bye, iPhoto). Otherwise, the software may become outdated or you won't be able to share photos with other people, which defeats the purpose.
To that end, I am using Picasa Web Albums to tag my photos. The system seems very good - for each person, you have a name, nickname and email address. You can share all a person's photos with them at once. They say the contacts sync with Gmail, but I think that's only for the email address, you can't sync the photo yet.
One problem I've discovered is sometimes you're stick with a goofy looking photo as the avatar for a certain person. I think the avatar used is the first photo tagged. I couldn't find a way to change the avatar online, but I discovered another method.
Here, I'm not happy with my avatar. I'd rather use the last picture.
Click on the picture you want, delete the person, and add a new one.
In the People tab, select both people and click on merge (at the top)
Save the new contact's information
Edit the resulting contact to add the information
Done!
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