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Suhit Gupta
03-23-2006, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/riyas-beta-is-out.html' target='_blank'>http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/riyas-beta-is-out.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Whew! After many months of saying, "soon", it's finally here. And you're one of the first to be invited! We know, it took a little longer than originally anticipated, but I think you'll agree that Riya.com isn't a simple web application that can just be whipped out in a fortnight. Nope. We're talking about some mega-breakthroughs in technology. Which brings us to the next point: we've still got a way to go. We aren't perfect. Far from it. Munjal likes to tell people that the technology behind the face recognition at Riya.com is at the same level as his son, Deven, a two-year old. With your feedback and many hours of research and development, our goal is to bring the recognition up to superhuman...but that's a little way off."</i><br /><br />There has been so much in the news about Riya in the last few months and it is great to see that their beta is finally out. Here is a <a href="http://www.riya.com/groundTruth">link to the invite</a> if you are interested.

Jason Dunn
03-23-2006, 04:53 PM
I've downloaded the beta, but haven't installed this yet. Part of me wonders how useful this is going to be until it's integrated into other photo management packages. Because ideally you want technology like this inside Picasa, Photoshop Elements, etc. rather than a separate application/service.