Comments on: Episode 5: Riya Launch

By: The Alternatives IV: Photo sharing - JW

The Alternatives IV: Photo sharing - JW — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:43:20 +0000

[...] And the best of this all, is that it’s free. Unlike the other photo sharing services, Riya has an no limits to upload bandwith or storage space, and photos are stored at full size. Currently, there are no ads, but on the TalkCrunch podcast about Riya, Munjal Shah, the CEO or Riya, said they may generate revenue from contextual ads in the future (minute 31). [...]

By: Technological Winter :: Today on TechCrunch

Technological Winter :: Today on TechCrunch — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:04:45 +0000

[...] Photosearch and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had amillion photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and sevenmillion photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on thecore service, see this post and listen this podcast interview with Riya founder and CEO Munjal Shah. [...]

By: Mikes Wordpress blog » Blogging about Riya from inside Flock news clipping

Mikes Wordpress blog » Blogging about Riya from inside Flock news clipping — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:56:40 +0000

[...] Photo search and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had a million photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and seven million photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on the core service, see this post and listen this podcast interview with Riya founder and CEO Munjal Shah. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Riya 2.0 en route; un virage stratégique majeur

TechCrunch en français » Riya 2.0 en route; un virage stratégique majeur — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:55:13 +0000

[...] Le site de recherche de Photos et de reconnaissance faciale Riya (qui est aussi un sponsor de TechCrunch US) affichait un million de photos téléchargées après 2 jours et 7 millions avec 7 semaines. Pour les détails sur ce service lisez ce billet ou écoutez ce podcast pour l’interview de son CEO Munjal Shah.. [...]

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Riya 2.0 On the Way; Major Strategy Shift

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Riya 2.0 On the Way; Major Strategy Shift — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:49:10 +0000

[...] Photo search and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had a million photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and seven million photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on the core service, see this post and listen this podcast interview with Riya founder and CEO Munjal Shah. [...]

By: Mic Pringle

Mic Pringle — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:54:38 +0000

Just downloaded my first ever podcast and it was your’s on the Amazon S3 webservice … fantastic! Will be a solid weekly subscriber now

Only question is, can I subscribe to these through iTunes so that I can get them downloaded automatically as soon as you publish them !?

Thanks

Mic

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:19:14 +0000

props to Arrington (or whomever) for keeping asking the tough questions to Riya. the last thing we need is another rah-rah nonsense propaganda tech outfit like Wired or News.com or whatever. These CEO’s are playing with big dollars – let them answer the tough questions.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:32:32 +0000

Hi,
I’m a college student and so I’m a total Facebook whore. They have photo uploading features on their site now and one of the interesting features, similar to Flickr, is the ability to tag specific areas within a photo. The way this is implemented is when a user uploads photos they can tag people’s faces and associate them with one of their Facebook friends. It is different from Flickr because it is meant for faces, not just any area of the photo.

So, what this means is I can click on my (or anyone else’s) profile at any time and with one click be able to see all the photos that contain me (assuming every photo has tagged faces in it). In practice, Facebook has made this so easy to do that most people do it. Check out some screenshots of this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skaplan/tags/facebook/

This is a great and unique feature that I hadn’t really seen much of before until I checked out Riya. Perhaps Facebook would be a great place to start with integrating technologies. There is a great training set of data that can be leveraged and a community of users that have already embraced
“people-tagging.”

By: Riya: photo sharing, face recognition and more - JW

Riya: photo sharing, face recognition and more - JW — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:03:44 +0000

[...] And the best of this all, is that it’s free. Unlike many other photo sharing services, Riya has an no limits to upload bandwith or storage space, and photos are stored at full size. Currently, there are no ads, but on the TalkCrunch podcast about Riya, Munjal Shah, the CEO or Riya, said they may generate revenue from contextual ads in the future (minute 31). [...]

By: Ohad

Ohad — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:38:10 +0000

Hi,
I’ve been following Riya for quite some time.
Even though their software does suffer from childhood issues, It is by far the best photo album i’ve encountered (not to mention the amazing photo recognition).

By: TechCrunch en français » Plus de précisions sur Riya

TechCrunch en français » Plus de précisions sur Riya — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:36:33 +0000

[...] Dans les deux premiers jours de son ouverture, le 21 mars dernier, Riya la compagnie qui propose un service de recherche faciale, reçut plus d’un million de photos. Nous nous sommes entretenus avec le PDG de la startup, Munjal Shah et son directeur marketing Tara Hunt, afin d’analyser les futurs projets de la compagnie. Ecoutez cette interview (en anglais) sur TalkCrunch. Tags: talkcrunch, techcrunch, web2.0, web_2.0, podcast Catégories : Sociétés et produits | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:28:59 +0000

Rich, nice to see you hanging out here. I don’t know the answer to your question, but at the very least I hope to see Riya built in to other services that already allow this. Also, you will be able to download this descriptive meta data to you original photos, and then upload them to other services down the road. So the short answer is, yes.

For instance, the new Yahoo Photos allows dynamic album creation on the fly based on tags associated with pictures. So you could create an album with certain tags of people’s names, and then have it printed up at Target, or a CD delivered to you. Easy. Cool.

By: Rich Panelli

Rich Panelli — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:11:26 +0000

Mike, I like your new TechCrunch service offering an audio review of the latest technology. Look forward to more.
Will Riya combine this “photo naming” service with the ability to create photo albums and share them over the net ? I believe this is the beginning of a very marketable product.

By: Sam Davyson

Sam Davyson — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:01:14 +0000

It seems that they aren’t quite sure where they are going to go with the company (in terms of a desktop app etc). I also find it hard to imagine quite how a Riya “Site Search” would work. But we’ll see.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:31:59 +0000

Thanks Nik, this is a great insight in to Riya.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:30:12 +0000

Mark, I apologize, we (meaning Nik) uploaded the wrong file. It’s fixed now.

By: Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:13:28 +0000

The audio is messed up on this guys. There are huge silent gaps in both the flash player version and the mp3 version..