I’m also bit surprised about the news.
I’m also curious to know about the marketing strategy which they have used.

http://www.jwdi.com

What kind of marketing do you do to get that?

Check out

http://www.evisionglobal.com

cheers

http://www.riya.com/search?btn.....ext=bikini

Last year, we started a photo sharing platform in The Netherlands which allows people to privately store photos.

Last week, we launched the English version: http://www.famipix.com

No voyeurism, but private photo sharing at its best.

With Photosharing sites if you are a user and you are uploading your pics and sharing them with your friends and they do the same, doesn’t everyone know who everyone is already for the most part anyway?

Think about facial shots people are posting of themselves anonymously on, say, online dating sites. So might one be able to upload some stranger’s picture from a dating site onto Riya and have riya spit out the person’s name? Upon which I can go to Jigsaw and find out their personal information? And others can do this with MY image from a dating site?

Sounds like technology the INS and DoD might be interested in.

I really think a desktop app — or at least a desktop client that would allow to keep one’s pictures on your local machine, and the tagging thus PRIVATE, or at least optionally private - would make a lot more sense. Haven’t played with riya yet and don’t know if they allow you to keep your tags private/confidential and not shared, but that would be a prerequisite. Still, a desktop app/client would make a ton more sense.

Good technology, bad application.

BlogDesam.com is a portal for Blogs(Weblogs) written in English. It incorporates listing of blogs, newfeed (loosely rss) aggregation, additional value-added services provided with a pleasant user interface. BlogDesam is one-of-a-kind in many aspects.

BlogDesam offers the following features, many of which are unique:

For all the listed blogs (without the need of inserting any code/link into your blog):
Instantly update and display of your post’s preview in the BlogDesam homepage.(Show me how)
Categorise every post of yours, so that your posts reach the right kind of (targetted) visitors of BlogDesam.(how)

Additional benefits for the listed blogs that use the unique ‘Pathivu’ toolbar (needs one-time insertion of a tiny javascript code segment into the blog template):
Communicate automatically the arrival of new comment for a post to BlogDesam portal, and gets listed under ‘Recently commented posts’.(how)
‘Ping’(inform) the aggregator straight from your blogs and instantly update the posts.(how)
Display a thumbnail image along with the post-preview, taken from the blogger’s profile.(how)
Enable a visitor to navigate to other recent posts written under the same category, through single-click.(how)
Enable a visitor to get a pdf version of a single-post or multiple-posts of his/her choice, including image support.(how)
Let the visitors rate a post based on karma-voting system, again through single-click.(how)
Configure all the above features. e.g. if the blogger does not want the pdf facility or the rating of posts, he can switch these off.(how)
Lastly, Hide the toolbar display completely in your post, but still retain the comment tracking facility.(how)

Benefits for the visitors:

Keep minute-by-minute tracking of what is going on in the blogosphere.(how)
Preview the posts by category and display/hide select categories of your choice.(how)
Navigate through the archives of posts, by date, filtered by categories.(how)
Search the listed blogs for any word, that can be extended to today, the past week, or the past month.(how)
Get pdf e-books made instantly from the posts of your choice (requires blogger’s cooperation, though) for off-line reading/carry-in-your-palm-during-commute/emailing.(how)

Ah, now finally some applications that requires state-of-the-art computer. Riya is basically another hardware-greedy computer game… still in Beta.

Munjal Shah - Riya