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Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search — Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the company is leveraging the core technology …
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Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping — Riya's facial search service was one of the first darlings of the Web 2.0 world. The company garnered more than $15 million in venture capital to make facial and object search as easy as text search. It turned out that searching …
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Riya Finds Business Model in Fashion — Photo recognition startup Riya has dramatically changed course, and is setting up shop today at Like.com as a visual search engine for jewelry, handbags, watches, and shoes. The land of women's fashion is a bit of a leap for most any Silicon Valley company …
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Riya reborn is really cool way to search — OK, so, what's the 250 machines for? — A better way to find stuff. A way better way. — Just don't tell Maryam, OK? — Why not? — Well, it's the first time you can search for "red strappy shoes" and have every type of shoe show up VISUALLY.
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Riya Launches Like.com, The First True — Visual Search Engine — Millions of Products Searchable by Appearance and Via a Vast Collection of Celebrity Fashion Photos — Riya, a world leader in visual computing, today launched Like.com, a visual search engine that, for the first time ever …
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: We would never trap user data — John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly kicked off the industry heavyweight portion of the Web 2.0 Summit with a few remarks about Web 2.0 and the theme of the event, disruption and opportunity. — "Web 2.0 is about harnessing the network effect …
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Skype 3.0: Transfer or no? — The jungle drums are beatin'... softly softly... but they're beatin'. — See, rumour has it that tomorrow at 8 AM EDT, the much anticipated Skype 3.0 will be released into beta. Wonder what's in it? So do I. And I can't find nary a detail anywhere on the web …
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'Enemies of the internet' named — A list of 13 "enemies of the internet" has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). — For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been removed.
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Lawsuit against Palm makes patent-infringement claims — Patent holder NTP has sued Palm, maker of the Treo e-mail phone, for infringement eight months after winning $612.5 million from BlackBerry creator Research In Motion (RIM) on a similar claim. — The suit, filed in Virginia on Monday, seeks cash compensation.
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Hacking the Web 2.0 Conference — There's an interesting little detail that's not readily apparent about the Web 2.0 Conference — I mean the Web 2.0 Summit! I keep forgetting that it's a Summit! — Even though the conference is fairly exclusive — invitation only, and a high price of admission …
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Google positioning for move into U.S. radio — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Web search leader Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry. — Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company …
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Column: What are online RSS feeds? — Q. I keep hearing about RSS feeds on Web sites. What are they and how can I use them? — A. RSS feeds are a very simple and convenient way to receive updated items from Web sites that you like, so you don't have to go trolling around to each site to see what's new.
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FTC: Policing online ads is 'daunting task' — WASHINGTON—As ads and marketing messages spread to a growing number of devices and with increased personalization, challenges lie ahead for authorities charged with policing deceptive schemes, a Federal Trade Commission official said Tuesday.
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what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens — When i was a child, i used to get super excited when the postman came. Although i almost never got anything, those handful of letters from penpals were such joyous gifts. Email was the same at first - even the pyramid schemes …
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Microsoft Launches Virtual Earth with Billboards — Microsoft launched Virtual Earth, an online 3D application that's part of the company's mapping site, and the first 15 cities shown in their full three-dimensional glory are peppered with billboards. The maps are displayed in the browser unlike …
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Verizon in talks to bring YouTube to V CAST, television — Verizon seems to be throwing as many trendy extras as humanly possible into its (oftentimes overpriced) monthly add-on pool, and may now be nearing a deal with the video clip-broadcasting extraordinaire, YouTube.
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