Riya could make tagging photos much easier

TechCrunch ยป First Screen Shots of Riya

Riya looks interesting if it really delivers on it’s promise.  I’ve been using Flickr a lot and I have discovered that it can be a pain to really tag the hell out of a photo.   Riya hopes to make the process simpler by using face and object recognition to auto tag.   That will help for tagging objects in a picture, but you’ll still have to enter meta-tags like places, times, and event names.   I guess GPS encoding could help there eventually.

BTW, I’m really glad that I went through the trouble of setting up Flock.   When I first heard of Flock, I didnt see how it could be anything special.   It sure is cool to be able to blog right inside the browser, though.   I also like being able to easily include my pictures from flickr in here.   Like this one of me wearing breast feeding equipment:

Flickr Photo

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