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I think people are missing one of the key features. This is described in the video here http://vimeo.com/21413899 http://vimeo.com/21413899, but not discussed i

by slewis 16y ago

I think people are missing one of the key features. This is described in the video here http://vimeo.com/21413899 http://vimeo.com/21413899, but not discussed in any article I've seen. When you turn on Color it starts recording all of the pictures that others in your local area are taking. All of those photos _are stored in your "visual diary"_ forever! This is a "life recorder" app. Remember this: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-09/pl_print http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-09/p... ? In the future you'll be making a documentary of your life just by moving through space, and I think that's a beautiful concept. Your grandkids will be able explore how you lived your day to day life as witnessed by those around you.

zmmmmm 16y ago
I suspect the key feature that has the VCs excited is the concept of "implicit social networking". Which is, rather than relying on explicit, self nominated constructed social networks this will grow the network organically - Color will end up with a huge implicit social graph that has a unique authenticity to it (these are not people who are pretending to know each other, they are people who really actually get together).
- alphakappa 16y ago
  Or they are people who just happened to be in the same neighborhood. I don't really get how that creates a social graph that's any more valuable than people you've explicitly added. Just because I'm in a neighborhood today doesn't mean that I'll want to connect with (or even be in the same place at the same time) the other folks whose pictures I can see in the app. It's a fun concept, but after using it for a bit, I'm still trying to think of why I would care. If I can only see pictures from the neighborhood, I'm unlikely to see anything that I can't already see with my naked eyes.

by slewis 16y ago

zmmmmm 16y ago

I suspect the key feature that has the VCs excited is the concept of "implicit social networking". Which is, rather than relying on explicit, self nominated constructed social networks this will grow the network organically - Color will end up with a huge implicit social graph that has a unique authenticity to it (these are not people who are pretending to know each other, they are people who really actually get together).

alphakappa 16y ago
Or they are people who just happened to be in the same neighborhood. I don't really get how that creates a social graph that's any more valuable than people you've explicitly added. Just because I'm in a neighborhood today doesn't mean that I'll want to connect with (or even be in the same place at the same time) the other folks whose pictures I can see in the app. It's a fun concept, but after using it for a bit, I'm still trying to think of why I would care. If I can only see pictures from the neighborhood, I'm unlikely to see anything that I can't already see with my naked eyes.