another year has flown by all ever so quickly since the first year's blog post. 2007 is but a few days away, and we head closer to 2030, when, according to a writer i was chatting with at a recent holiday party, the "singularity" will happen and computers will become vastly more intelligent than humans (i.e. they are to us what we are to ants). it's a singularity because there's no way to predict anything beyond that point. i can't say anything about 2030 or beyond, but i can recap 2006 in my little world. some highlights.
january. riya got it's second round ($15 mil) from Bay Partners.
february. riya wins the demo god award at Demo 2006. we're all super busy preparing for the beta launch of our website.
march. riya.com is launched and we get 1 million photos uploaded in the first day.
may. i head to bangalore to work out of our india office. along the way, i visited bangkok (pictured below) and kuala lumpur.
june. attended stanford's commencement. yosemite trip 1, went with my parents following commencement. here's a photo i took of my parents.
july. mt shasta trip 1.
august. mt shasta trip 2. i'm on the way to red banks below.
october. yosemite trip 2. look, there's still snow!
november. like.com launched. our new shopping site with visual search.
december. nips conference in vancouver and whistler. my first time in these two places. i managed to squeeze in some running (around stanley park - it's a beautiful park, but since i was running at 6am it was quite dark and cold out) and skiing (down whistler). the skiing there was amazing. there's a run that supposedly goes for 7 miles and drops 5,000 vertical feet.
compared to two years ago, this year didn't bring any big changes. the short cliched summary for 2006 is that i worked hard and played hard. two websites launched. no marathons, but two separate "day" trips to climb mt shasta were marathons of sorts. for 2007, i am eyeing the big sur marathon. happy new year's!
Danny,
Good luck in all your future accomplishments. I enjoyed looking at your photos as I am a runner and outdoor enthusiast.
Posted by: Faith Furgason | November 03, 2008 at 12:23 PM