What's happening with Color?

8 pointsrichardw2 comments

I haven't opened it for a couple months, mainly because I don't appear to have anybody near me using it. LinkedIn has taken Color's place on the HN Bubble Watch.

So...is there a raging Color community snapping mad pix daily and causing the recent drop in Facebook U.S. numbers? Or are Color about to reveal their (real) master plan? Or is that it?

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I'm with you: my use of Color is nearly non-existent, due to the apparent non-exisence of any other users, at least in the Center City Philadelphia area. Is this a foreseen and accounted-for part of the Color Master Plan? [Shrug.]

An app that I actually find mildly useful is Sonar. I can browse around local places and see if anyone has recently checked in. And then, if anyone has, I can see if I'm somehow connected to them. Or if they seem interesting. I haven't yet decided to get off my butt and go to a specific location because of Sonar, but I can imagine doing so.

So it's not like you can't make at least mildly compelling, useful apps in this space. Color just doesn't seem like one.

Enough people found out that they were the product, it just turned out differently. http://boingboing.net/2011/03/27/best-iphone-app-revi.html

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