Recently Riya, the photo storage and search site, launched their Riya API for people to use. Now, at first I was really excited about using it and I had some ideas of what I’d like to do with it. Something that I’ve thought the site has needed for a while was an easy way to blog the photos.

The easiest way was if the “Blog Photo” button that they have on their site actually worked instead of saying “Coming Soon” all the time on it. The next best way would be to have an application on the desktop that would display the photos in a user’s account and the user could just click a photo and select a “blog this” button that would post the photo to their blog. Now, my final idea came tonight. If you haven’t downloaded Word 2007 already, it’s awesome and it has a blogging feature inside of it. Actually, I’m writing this post right now inside of Word 2007. But what I was thinking was that wouldn’t it be cool if there was a button in Word that you could click and all your Riya photos would come up and you would just click the photo you liked and it would be added to the blog post you were creating? I think that would be pretty neat to have since I hate having to upload a photo and then select and image upload location and go into the document and write out the html for the image tag.

If this were a feature that I built, would you use it? Is this something that other people would like to see as well? I was thinking I’d probably start off with the Riya API and then expand to the Flickr API if on exists. Maybe something for Flickr already exists which would be very cool. If one does, let me know.

I’m also thinking maybe it might be interesting to create a Riya Widget for blog pages. So the idea is that someone goes to your page, see’s a photo on your profile they like and there is a little icon on or next to the photo that says blog or indicates blog. Click the icon and it’ll send it to your blog or wherever.

I’d be interested to hear what you think about this.