Is Riya selling itself to Google?
Om Malik : » Google's Riya Designs?
Boy, I was just checking last minute news on Memeorandum before going to bed when I saw Om Malik’s post about the rumor that Google might buy out Riya. This was 10 second shock and anxiety to me as I kept on reading further. Why you ask? As an user I am close to Riya & team involved than most of you are. I have been alpha testing Riya (yes, it’s still in Alpha) but it’s good for what it does.
Now Google is cool and all and I use it extensively but would hate to see in a good way that Google will own this good product as well. Why doesn’t Google concentrate on improving their existing products and bringing them out of Beta first! But I can see a overall better product if Google buys Riya out and integrates it with their existing photo related products like Picasa and all.
But Riya is a cool product with a good future. I am not really surprised if many companies are behind it, but did not think that it will be this fast (remember, it’s still in Alpha, even their launch party is on this Friday at TechCrunch). Good luck Munjal Shah and team.
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