Huddled Masses

Well, Riya is in public beta now, so for those of you who didn’t get invited, consider this an invitation.

Check out Riya, and check out their auto-tagging, face-recognizing, image searching goodness. If you thought Zooomr’s annoying implementation of “people tagging” photos (where the people have to have their own accounts on Zooomr or you can’t tag them) was cool, you really need to check out Riya. If you can’t wait for the future where we’ll be able to take a picture with your camera phone, surf to a website and say “find me a dress like that or a rug like this" … you should check out this post about the future of Riya.

They’re trying to build a search engine that can search all images on the web (like Google or Yahoo’s image search) but with actual image recognition instead of google and yahoo’s rather lame “these words were near the picture, so we hope it’s about them” methods. Of course, whether it’s ultimately better or not remains to be seen.

This will be driven, in part, by users who upload photos to Riya’s photo sharing service, and who tag photos, and label people … you really just need to sign up. Make sure to read the terms of use … because it’s a violation to upload bad photos, and you’re not supposed to search your photos manually after you sign up .

Technorati Tags: Flickr, Photos, Face Recognition, Web2.0, Beta, Riya

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