Today a partner showed me a very cool device from Logitech based on Anoto technology.  It seemed like a very promising way to bring paper and pen into the digital world – it’s like Tablet PC vector-based inking for paper forms.

Perhaps Anoto is hope for all those entrenched paper-based business processes that need an incremental transition to digital input methods.  It’s yet another reason to build systems with a Service Oriented Architecture using Web Services –your clients span Web pages, Office docs, Tablet PCs, phones, paper forms … all sharing back-end services.  A quick web search tonight revealed that Eric Rudder found Anoto interesting too.