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By: Riya frustrations « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Riya frustrations « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:14:15 +0000

[...] I received an Alpha invite to try out Riya the other day. I have posted about Riya previously and it does sound like it will be an exciting application - it is an online photo application (like Flickr) but it has facial recognition software built-in. This means that once you upload a photo and tell Riya who is in the photo, it will recognise them in any other photos you upload. This will help enormously when you want to search for pictures subsequently as currently there is no real wy to search for images unless they have meta-information attached. [...]

By: Riya being bought by Microsoft? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Riya being bought by Microsoft? « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:24:54 +0000

[...] Riya is a company I have mentioned previously - they have an incredible application which combines text and facial recognition with photo uploading, so that once you tell Riya who is who in your photo albums, it will recognise those people from then on out in any photos it sees! Riya also has tagging built in to the application - like any half-decent web 2.0 application. Riya is due to launch tomorrow. [...]

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:18:18 +0000

Tara,

thanks a million - one thing, though - is there a Mac version of the client software?

By: Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt

Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:09:33 +0000

Hi Tom,

I’ve added you to the alpha list! It may take a little while, but you’ll get your invite.

Tara