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- Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping
- Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shoppingIt is not about the technology, but the problem it solvesDan, Great job on this story. A year ago I was skeptical of Riya based on my past experience at AltaVista. Now I think Riya has a much better chance of success focusing on the...
- Tags: Riya
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping
- Riya’s facial search service was one of the first darlings of the Web 2.0 world. The company garnered more than $15 million in venture capital to make facial and object search as easy as text search. It turned out that searching by facial similarity was a nice bit of computer...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Like.com, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Google hires Neven Vision and takes on Riya
- Neven Vision is a company that specializes in biometric identification -- the blog entry from Google about the company explains that the technology could be used to determine if a person in a photograph. It even goes on to explain that one day it might even recognize people, places...
- Tags: Neven Vision, Riya
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Riya unleashing API to integrate its visual search into apps
- Riya CEO Munjal Shah has been blogging about his company's shift in strategy, moving from a focus on face recognition to visual Web search (see also my post from May 16 and recent posts from Mike Arrington and Matt Marshall, among others). "The idea is to do similarity search globally,...
- Tags: Riya
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
- Riya heading into Web search
- Riya heading into Web searchProblem with Riya siteSays it supports IE and Firefox. Refuses to allow Seamonkey in, possibly other non-Firefox Gecko-based browsers.Complaint submitted & bug filed.This kind of browser screening is just plain bad practice, folks. Give a warning/disclaimer to the "unsupported" if you must, but don't block people...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Riya, Internet search, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- Riya heading into Web search
- Riya has been the darling of the Web 2.0 crowd, drawing kudos from every corner of the blogosphere. Riya's facial and text recognition technology is unique among all the photo uploading sites, but CEO Munjal Shah has bigger ambitions--searching across billions of publicly available images. ...
- Tags: Riya, photograph, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- Riya goes into beta
- Riya, the photo search service based on face and text recognition, has finally made it to beta. I got my "private" invite (which means it's sort of in beta) this morning to try out the service, and have started uploading. More to come...
- Tags: Riya, beta
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Riya going public beta in two weeks...
- Demo 2006: Riya was one of the hottest products shown demo. It's been in development for over two years, and was the talk of Silicon Valley when Google was rumored to be acquiring the company. I saw it a few months ago, and it has come a long way since...
- Tags: Riya
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Revenge of the long tail
- Munjal Shah of Riya, a startup photo sharing service that applies face and text recognition to find images, is among many Web 2.0 companies in search of revenue generation models. He has an interesting way of expressing the revenue share idea, calling it the "revenge of the long tail." Speaking...
- Tags: Riya, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
Additional Resources
- Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph
- Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global GraphSemantic WebTim Berners-Lee has mentioned the Semantic Web for quite some time. However, his definition of Giant Global Graph is interesting. It combines the Semantic Web with the Social Graph. What happens though when the Social Graph...
- Tags: Giant Global Graph, FOAF, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, WWW
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
- MeyshanWall (zip)
- MeyshanWall A unique 5 in wallpaper for you. MeyshanWall is a wallpaper changer powered by Riya, Picasa, 23Hq and Flickr and your photo in your desktop. It provides your desktop with a never ending stream of cool photos uploaded by Riya, Picasa and 23HQ and flickr users direct to your...
- Tags: Flickr, Photograph, Google Picasa, MeyshanWall, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-06-28
- MeyshanSlide (zip)
- Ultimate Open source free slideShow for your Web site. A creative mashup to display your photo that is stored in riya flickr and Picasa. User Php Flickr, very easy installation, all that, you need to do is download this, upload to your server, with the user name of the respective...
- Tags: Flickr, Web Site Development, Scripting Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-06-20
- Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?
- Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine Google worship:Search engines extract too much of...
- Tags: participation inequality, Web
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers
- TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups. He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products. Winners got acquired: Writely, del.icio.us, Userplane,...
- Tags: Web 2.0 Winners, loser, TechCrunch
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Google Image Tagger coming soon?
- Google Image Tagger coming soon?Facial RecognitionImage tagger might mean a RIYA like service (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=297). The term "image tagger" is also used in face book to show who is in a picture.yeppits been reeleasedimage.google.com/imagelabeler
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-30
- Digg at risk: 'Social A Listers' poached by Netscape
- Powerhouse AOL is wielding its financial muscle and business savvy to bolster its newly redesigned “Digg-like” Netscape.com portal by poaching “three of the top 12 DIGG users.”According to AOL and Netscape.com exec Jason Calacanis:Seriously, the fact is that the top 10 users on DIGG are responsible for 30% of the...
- Tags: Digg
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?
- YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?Myspace is an abomination.'nuff said.An advertising problemEssentially, social networking sites are chosen by people who don't want to pay anything.Not exactly the best audience for advertisers ;-)The Web 2.0 EconomyI'm facinated by the Web 2.0 economy. It makes money by harvesting...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Digg, MySpace, abomination, social networking, Web 2.0, Web, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?
- Kevin Rose questions the propriety of Jason Calacanis putting a price tag on the active contributors at Web 2.0 Social Web properties such as Digg and Netscape (See "Digg vs. Netscape, Kevin vs. Jason, Web 2.0 vs. commercial Internet”)The bigger question is: How much are the Web 2.0 Social Web...
- Tags: MySpace, Web, Web 2.0, YouTube Inc., Digg
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Hey, where's my (search) app, dude?
- Hey, where's my search app, dude?"dude"?To understand why I'm using these rather ugly titles this week you have to know about an inside joke. I have this rather, ahem, cough, "blue" as in eye searing car and in six years my wife has never ceased to give me grief about...
- Tags: Internet, Very few people
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- Digg's 8 million 'social freeloaders'
- According to Digg CEO Jay Adelson, “The point of Digg is to capture the interests of the Internet masses and use that interest to help organize the huge amounts of information on the Web." Digg’s masses, however, are passive readers of other’s “Diggs,” rather than active contributors to a Digg...
- Tags: collective wisdom, Digg, Social Web
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
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