Post launch account of a photo recognition company Riya
Munjal Shah of Riya has written an account of events after their launch of their service Riya which is a photo recognition system and it will be much more in the coming future.
Great account of events and one can get an insight into the things going behind the scenes of a company.
This reminds me to write about my own account of how I have been using Riya lately. I was very much excited about this technology and I still am, but I am not using it as much as I thought. As Munjal puts it in his write up, I don't think there is enough stickiness in the site or it is just me making not enough use of the features of the site. You upload pictures, help system to recognise the faces, share what you need to, then what? I like privacy and have very few pictures that are shared with public. There should be things that would bring the users back to Riya again and again and not just when they particularly want to search for a photo or share a photo with somebody. There should be ways which will allow users to do more with their photos. For users like me, who don't watch their photos day in and day out, there has to be something that will excite them about the photos and to make best use of them.
Here is a photo I uploaded to Riya seeing which makes me happy. Well I am getting started with using my pictures more now ;).
