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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. Facebook, anyone? by icefaerie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone who's used Facebook (vaguely like MySpace for college students, so it's like MySpace minus emo thirteen year olds and middle school drama) recently has had access to something similar. You can upload photos, click on a person in the photo, and "tag" it with their name, so anyone who views the photo has a link to their profile. Pretty neat, really...and it doesn't require IE6. :)

    1. Re:Facebook, anyone? by Seumas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Wow. What dufus marked your post "offtopic"...!?

      Personally, I thought MySpace was for college students. Or really, anyone young enough to still be intrigued by being part of a "clique".

      Imagine what happens when lots of people in public places use their webcams (the kind in most cities or small shops) to record and upload every person that walks by. You'd eventually have a huge public database of automatically catalogued photographic timelines of every person. Where they went, when, who they were with... yikes.

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

    HAppy PENIS in the BUTT day!!!!! 8===D~ ~ ~