Tag archive: color

Geo-social has proven to be somewhat tricky territory. While it appears that many users want to interact with their location, how and how much remains undecided. Privacy implications arise at every turn, and what exactly crosses the line into over-sharing in this segment is an important and unanswered question–all while developers are reinventing how we broadcast our whereabouts.  Manufacturing serendipity Location apps have been trying to… Read More

Announced during a press event in San Francisco earlier today, Facebook has pushed out support for 60 new applications that will allow friends of users to join in on the activity through Facebook. For instance, a Facebook user could be using Foodily to cook a recipe for lemon chicken. If a friend sees that activity within the feed, they can join and try cooking the same recipe. Another example mentioned at the press event would entail a… Read More

When Color was first introduced last spring, it was with ample fanfare and altogether too much hype. We watched the app flounder, witnessed closeted attempts at a rebuild, and mostly forgot about it. Now, Color is back and it’s trying to repackage the remains of its project. Cnet has gotten an early glimpse at the new app, which has scaled back its original purpose to attack the status update instead of the social network as a whole. Color wants… Read More

It's almost Halloween. That means the second dusk hits on October 31st, your favorite department store will tear down masks, costumes and candy bins in favor of Christmas lights,  stuffed Santas and those ridiculously pungent holiday candles. Yup… in case you weren't aware, you should probably already be Christmas shopping.  While we aren't ready to launch into our holiday countdown or top gift lists just yet,… Read More

Color Labs, the team behind the commercially disappointing Color app, is trying its hand at something new. TechCrunch reports that developers will reveal a Facebook app at f8 today called Blue that will target Harvard students specifically. Here’s the email explaining Blue: “Subject: New Harvard exclusive app launched w/ Zuckerberg In case Harvard isn’t exclusive enough for us, a new app launched with Facebook today is available exclusively for… Read More

Silicon Valley is at the center of the venture capitalist world – but maybe not for long. And despite accusations of a struggling and limiting environment, a report from VC firm Earlybird shows that the European VC market could very well be giving the US a little competition in the near future. It’s a younger, newer atmosphere than in the US, where there is an older tradition of investment firms. Venture capitalism is relatively new to Europe,… Read More

Google-owned website photovine.com has launched — but we still have little clue as to what Photovine actually is. Judging by the name, and the only graphic on the website — an iPhone 4 with tiles of various photos on the screen — it's obvious that Photovine has something to do with, well, photos. The presence of the iPhone suggests that Photovine is an iOS app. Beyond that, however, everything becomes a bit more vague. According to the… Read More

The advent of a Facebook photo-sharing app (of some nature) is upon us. And while the service looks pretty impressive and undoubtedly has some considerable pull by being directly integrated with the social network titan, the field is rife with competition. It can be a confusing landscape to navigate depending on your level of interest and commitment–even if all you want is to fancy up your photos before sending them on their way to… Read More

Photo-sharing app Color debuted a mere three months ago and already it’s being passed off as a momentary fad. When it first launched, it set the digital-social world on its toes and got us all throwing around words like “game-changer” and “revolutionary.” Color was supposed to become the new M.O. for social networks, a way to concretely combine mobile, location, social, and photo. Maybe it was ahead of its time and maybe it was a whole lot of… Read More

Facebook has a secret iPhone app in development, and it's totally “killer,” reports MG Seigler at TechCrunch. The new app from the social network kingdom is like nothing anybody's seen before — at least not all in one place. And with any luck, it'll be on your iPhone or other iOS device sometime in nearby future. According to Seigler, who received “roughly 50 MB of images and documents outlining the… Read More

We’re not sure if you’ve heard, but photo apps are all the rage right now. Anyone with even a moderate penchant for photos has given Color, Instagram, or Hipstamatic a whirl at this point, and while they’re all entertaining (to varying degrees), they have a few things in common: Overlapping features, and a connection to a new mobile photo community that you find yourself keeping tabs on. Pixable has something of a solution. The developer takes… Read More

You didn’t expect Apple to let someone else steal the spotlight for too long, did you? Color has been social’s darling new startup for a couple weeks now, and already details on Apple’s challenger are surfacing. It’s been speculated for a little while now that Apple’s interested in getting a little more social, and there have been reports that the iPhone 5 (whenever it comes out…) will include a new feature called “Media Stream.” The application… Read More

Aside from the never-ending speculation over what app-of-the-moment Color means to social networking and privacy, the most astounding thing about the startup is how much money it has raised. Before it even launched, Color received $41 million in investments, $25 million of which came from Sequoia Capital – more than it has ever invested with a pre-launch startup, including Google. But numbers like this are becoming less of a rarity for social… Read More

The problems with the highly publicized new iOS and Android photo-sharing app Color continue to mount. According to Forbes, the app has an easily exploitable feature that makes it simple for tech-savvy users to view all the photos of anyone who uses the app. That's not to say Color is known for its tight privacy settings — in fact, the exact opposite is true. When a user takes a photo with Color, the photo is automatically uploaded to the… Read More

Are you sick of Color already? Maybe just the deluge of puns involving the app's name that are sure to continue hitting your news feed? It's not even out of its infancy and already it's taking over. Based on the idea of creating a social network that is entirely location-based and contains nothing more than various photo-streams, Color is making headlines for its potential to unite strangers as well as the ever-trending mobile,… Read More