Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management

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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So when Google buys them...

[Anonymous Coward]

Grab a shot from your office security camera of the guy that just came in for a job interview. Use Google Image search now with Riya and find all those photos of him passed out drunk in college his buddies posted to their Flickr account, or the nude images he posted to "that" site, or how he's doing on Hot or Not.