Na Techcrunchu sam naišao na podatak da je na Riya-u u dva dana nakon pokretanja uploadano preko milijun fotografija. Riya je naveliko najavljivani servis koji koristi vlastitu tehnologiju prepoznavanja i grupiranja lica ljudi u fotografijama (face recognition technology). Osobno još nisam isprobao kako Riya funkciora u praksi, ali svi komentari koje sam do sad pročitao su izrazito pozitivni.

Na Techrunchu impliciraju mogućnost da Riya-u netko kupi, hm…tko drugi nego Yahoo. Michael Arrington kaže:

Congratulations to the entire Riya team if, in fact, it is launching today as I’ve been unofficially told. I am really hoping that they adopt a partnering strategy and get this built into Flickr and other photo sharing services. Or at the very least build a hell of an importer so that I can move my photos to them. Yahoo, if Riya works (it certainly did in my beta testing), please buy this company.