Like.com team shuts down visual search site Riya
Riya, the visual search engine whose team later built shopping site Like.com, is shutting down later this month.
The closure only finalizes a shift that started happening years ago — although the San Mateo, Calif. company is still called Riya, it has been focusing on Like.com… Continue Reading
Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya — list is getting long
Google and Yahoo have image and video search, but they’ve kept things to themselves, oddly not syndicating these for other sites to use like they have with their text search engines.
No doubt, they will do so soon. Meantime, a host of specialized image search… Continue Reading
Yahoo launches Mixd for group texting, for going out
Yahoo has launched a group texting feature, called Mixd. We found it straight-forward to sign up.
It reminds us of other group messaging features, such as 3Jam. Like with 3Jam, for example, Mixd can be tricky to figure out how to create a group at first,… Continue Reading