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# Riya goes beta, joins Web 2.0 fray
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/riya-goes-beta-joins-web-20-fray/
- Published: 2006-03-21T17:19:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:35:04.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Society & economy, Technology

[](http://riya.com/?ref=chrismessina.me)Ok, so my interest in [Riya](http://riya.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) is certainly not devoid of [special interests](http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/03/riya-goes-beta.html?ref=chrismessina.me), but I am definitely looking forward to the day when I can play around with their service (it currently doesn't support [Camino](http://caminobrowser.org/?ref=chrismessina.me), [Flock](http://flock.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) or the Mac --- waahhhh!! (That's okay though, [Tara gave up on Flock](http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/03/browser-hellpopulation-me.html?ref=chrismessina.me) recently anyway so we're equally bummed about each other's products... ha!)). What's cool about Riya? Well, privacy mumbo jumbo aside, Riya will be an exceptionally useful tool -- that we'll all eventually come to take for granted as much as we do decent text search (and as much as the government already lavishes the use of face-rec on its citizens). I can hear the grand kids now (no, that's not a Freudian slip, sheesh): "Wait, you mean you didn't have photo search?? How did you keep track of what your 6,000 buddies were up to?!" So yeah, once they fix the platform limitations so that I can actually use it, I'm sure I'll get a kick out of finding all kinds of bad shots of myself. Until then, if you're on IE, Firefox or the PC, let me know how your [first experiences](http://riya.com/groundTruth?ref=chrismessina.me) with Riya go.

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### 💬 Comments from the original post

**[Tommy Keswick](http://tommykeswick.com/blog/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2006-03-21 18:36:57

Speaking of finding all kinds of bad shots of yourself, I think I ran across a teeny tiny photo of you in PC Magazine today. They had a little blurb about Flock and had a screenshot of it with the Flickr Topbar. They must have had the default "Join the Flock" photostream loaded. It's on their site here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1937044,00.asp if you didn't already know (with the screenshot enlargable).

**[FactoryJoe](http://www.factorycity.net/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2006-03-22 12:36:00

Whoa -- Tommy -- nice catch. That's totally us... and my meanface! Ha!