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.
Riya.com isn’t just about face recognition. It is about search. It is about rethinking photosearch so that we are searching inside your photos, not around them. Huh? you ask…
Through the face and text recognition, through the explicit utilization of your natural photo metadata (like date, time, location, etc.) and through any of the previous work you’ve done in organizing your photos, Riya.com automatically tags your photos so that you can start to find the exact photograph you are looking for. In the future, we will also be leveraging your online life to enable auto-tagging of events and such (feel free to make suggestions).
With that being said, we should really get you in that beta! Oh…before we do that, a couple of caveats:
1. Okay, so like we said above, Riya is a photosearch. It will work much better for you if you upload 1,000+ photos. There is an option for making your photos private (although it is more fun to make them public and search around) if you feel more comfortable with that.
2. The Riya uploader is PC only right now. Darn it, we know. If you are on a Mac and you can find a friend with a PC, you can upload there, then train, tag and search your photos on your Mac. We promise that we are working on that Mac uploader. Please keep sending those stats. 
3. Speaking of the uploader, it is recommended that you run large sets overnight or while you are away from your PC for a length of time as it utilizes some processor memory and power. Sorry. Heh. Considering that it uploads an average of 4,000 photos in 24 hours, it’s not too bad. There is still room for improvement, but it’s faster than most uploaders you’ll encounter.
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