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Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everyone-needs-a-gimick dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes to tell us Wired is covering a new service that hopes to alleviate some of the woes of digital picture management using face-recognition technology. Riya, requires a bit of upfront training but thereafter it is able to identify and tag individuals in your pictures along with text recognition for street signs and the like. The service also plans to offer the ability to make your online photo albums public, private, or viewable by invitation.

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  1. I think they were warned by plover · · Score: 4, Informative
    I looked at all the shiny stuff on their site, and then figured "OK, I'll sign up and try it." But the signup page said "IE 6 only". OK, fine, I'll hold my nose and fire up IE. Only after that do I discover the alpha phase is by "email invite only".

    It's almost as if they were exactly prepared for a slashdotting! Very clever people, indeed.

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    John
    1. Re:I think they were warned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      You should try this firefox extension: http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/

    2. Re:I think they were warned by nath_de · · Score: 2, Informative
      From the page:
      During the alpha testing, we only support IE6. By our beta, we will support Firefox. We know, we know...if you are a Firefox fanatic and want to tell us off, do it here - Alpha@riya.com
      So it seems that Firefox will happen sometimes. Now for a Linux application doing this... would be exactly the programm I've wanted for quite some time now.
  2. Re:Facebook, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thats because its not the same thing. Facebook cannot be trained to recognize faces. You have to tag it for every picture manually. The only doofus is you.

    The two are not really alike.