Photo search and facial recognition startup Riya launched on March 21 and had a million photos uploaded in the first two days. We interview Riya CEO Munjal Shah and Marketing Director Tara Hunt on TalkCrunch to understand what Riya’s plans are in the near future. Check it out over on TalkCrunch.
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Michael Arrington
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April 13, 2006
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The quality continues to improve..on both the audio quality and interview depth.
I thought this was a very good podcast. I learned some things about Riya and the people behind it. I will be interested to find out what Riya has set has their upload goal (which they are half way to already).
Too bad Riya only has an uploader for Windows so far. Very, very disappointing.
I love Riya even though it takes a while to get the recognition process going for 2000+ pictures. It took me a couple of days to send that many pictures to the website through the uploader that processes the pictures for faces before uploading it. I think this is service I’m going to keep using because of rumored flickr addons?
Even though it takes a bit for the software to “learn” who the people on the pictures are, I found the service very good and promising.
Very good interview.
Diego
Does anyone know what the “point” of Riya is yet? Is the flickr integration a sure thing? Without this I really don’t understand why I uploaded 600+ photos to Riya and spent a couple of hours identifying faces in pictures. If it is an add on to flickr or somehow tags the actual pictures on my computer then I can see some value but right now it seems like I just wasted some time on a very limited photo sharing site.
Nevermind. I listened to the podcast and have a better idea of where they are heading. Although I still think that they would be much better off being bought out by flickr or selling their product as a standalone desktop product.