riya.com— Riya.com, the cool online photo search (which allows searching for people in photos and tagging them) - has started Beta today.
Mar 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
I don't understand most of the feed backs in here. Clone of Flickr? Where is the benefit?For your knowledge there were rumors (and still are) that google is going to buy riya for 40 million dollars.When google launched their new finance website everyone here wrote thank you google for the new site and that they will start using the new finance site although there are much better sites out there in the finance market.Here, a start up company came up with a new idea that no other site has and everyone says its a clone.The question is what ppl would say here about this site if instead of Riya it was called: Google albums?
No Mac uploader support? No way to upload via the Web? No way to import files from / export tags to Flickr? Sounds more like an alpha than a beta. It's a great idea, though. Hope they can pull it off.
It doesn't support Camino either, which is surprising since it shares Firefox's Gecko engine. Not supporting standards is lame. Oh well, time to boot up my PC to check this out...
I'm hoping that either Google or Yahoo! acquires Riya. It'd be great if this new technology could be integrated with any of their existing works. Perhaps a new Google photo sharing service? Or a souped-up Flickr?I received and invite and tried it out shortly. Wasn't too happy about the long installation time of the uploading software though. But I'll give this Riya thing a more extensive test run in a while.
Everyone remember, this is a very early BETA. They make no attempt to hide the fact, it was in the invite email I received and all over their support section, main page, etc. It's slow, buggy, and lots of features aren't implemented, yet.One of the things that will come of the beta is user interface improvements. This is by no means the finished product.And I agree with others that if Google had put this out, everyone would be lapping it up. Give it a freaking chance. The technology has HUGE potential once more people start using it. The point isn't to find people in your own pictures; you probably already know which pictures contain which people. The point is to find these people in OTHER pictures, very similar to what Facebook does. The difference being this is automatic, Facebook isn't. I think it will be very cool when my face shows up in the background of a complete stranger's picture. THAT'S the point.
I've been trying it out and the slow is extremely slow and needs a bit of a usability re-design and could use some more features, but the face recognition works great. It recognizes my photos nearly flawlessly. This definitely could be a very nice service in the future (especially if google buys them)
ocileMar 21, 2006
I don't understand most of the feed backs in here. Clone of Flickr? Where is the benefit?For your knowledge there were rumors (and still are) that google is going to buy riya for 40 million dollars.When google launched their new finance website everyone here wrote thank you google for the new site and that they will start using the new finance site although there are much better sites out there in the finance market.Here, a start up company came up with a new idea that no other site has and everyone says its a clone.The question is what ppl would say here about this site if instead of Riya it was called: Google albums?
shovel10Mar 21, 2006
I type c**ktail and only get pictures where I need permission for... that's lame and really do I need to sign up for everything.. F#$%#$K that.
chrisradcliffMar 22, 2006
No Mac uploader support? No way to upload via the Web? No way to import files from / export tags to Flickr? Sounds more like an alpha than a beta. It's a great idea, though. Hope they can pull it off.
bellyache5Mar 22, 2006
It doesn't support Camino either, which is surprising since it shares Firefox's Gecko engine. Not supporting standards is lame. Oh well, time to boot up my PC to check this out...
xaphMar 22, 2006
I'm hoping that either Google or Yahoo! acquires Riya. It'd be great if this new technology could be integrated with any of their existing works. Perhaps a new Google photo sharing service? Or a souped-up Flickr?I received and invite and tried it out shortly. Wasn't too happy about the long installation time of the uploading software though. But I'll give this Riya thing a more extensive test run in a while.
shaun3000Mar 22, 2006
Everyone remember, this is a very early BETA. They make no attempt to hide the fact, it was in the invite email I received and all over their support section, main page, etc. It's slow, buggy, and lots of features aren't implemented, yet.One of the things that will come of the beta is user interface improvements. This is by no means the finished product.And I agree with others that if Google had put this out, everyone would be lapping it up. Give it a freaking chance. The technology has HUGE potential once more people start using it. The point isn't to find people in your own pictures; you probably already know which pictures contain which people. The point is to find these people in OTHER pictures, very similar to what Facebook does. The difference being this is automatic, Facebook isn't. I think it will be very cool when my face shows up in the background of a complete stranger's picture. THAT'S the point.
albrad84Mar 24, 2006
I've been trying it out and the slow is extremely slow and needs a bit of a usability re-design and could use some more features, but the face recognition works great. It recognizes my photos nearly flawlessly. This definitely could be a very nice service in the future (especially if google buys them)