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| Color (photo taken from color.com) |
UPDATE: In the video posted below, Color founder Bill Nguyen describes the application as similar to going to a wedding and having several disposable cameras sitting in front of you. You can now have the ability to do the same thing, except with your iPhone.
The technology that allows you to look at the photographs and videos on other people’s phones is finally here.
According to a March 24th article on Computerworld.com, the free photo sharing application, Color, was made available last week for iPhone and Android smart phones. Similar to a photographic version of Twitter, this application allows you to view and share the photographs taken on your phone with anybody within a 150 foot radius.
In this article, the author interviews Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research, who states:
Some people like to share what they see, what they're doing, what they like and even what they don't like. And they like to see what other people are doing and liking.
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| The Color Application (photo taken from geeky-gadgets.com) |
Color also creates a great business opportunity by providing a potential way of free advertising. For example, as someone walks by a restaurant, they could see a photograph come up on their phone of how great the food looks and be persuaded to go inside. As Ezra Gottheil states in the Computerworld.com article:
If the person is looking at their smartphone instead of your shop window, why not put your picture where he or she is looking?
This is a great idea!
The following video gives the potential of the Color application.
Although the new Color application poses a great opportunity, it may also create a threat.
The photo sharing application does not provide any privacy settings. This means that you are allowing anybody using Color to see your photographs and videos within 150 feet you.
It also does not have a friending function. Color will determine who your friends are based on who is around you the most. Once the application has decided who your friends are based on geography and shared interests, it will put you into a social network with that person, allowing you to receive updates more often from them. This may allow for those who you do not even know to become part of your network.
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| Another photo of the Color application. (photo taken from itunes.apple.com) |
In a March 24 article on Switched.com, Color founder Bill Nguyen states:
Social networks are doing pretty amazing things, but to me, social networks still feel solitary, like advanced e-mail, where you write something, post something, and someone responds. That's not like real life at all.
But these social networks have privacy setting, which a large number of users find to be appropriate. It will be interesting to see how many people will actually use this application within its first few weeks.
Hey Bobbie, I love the topic you chose this week. It’s very fitting for our class and your main topic. Your use of multimedia was great. The only change I would make is adding a caption to your video. You could do this by giving a summary of the video and citing the source. Other than that, great job!
ReplyDeleteI’m impressed by your post this week, very well done! Your sources are rather relevant and their citations were very clear, so nice job! One minor thing: it may just be an issue with Blogger, but your block quote from Bill Nguyen is not actually block-quoted. Try and see if you can fix this so it doesn’t confuse readers.
ReplyDeleteI thought you clearly explained the relevance of the multimedia in your blog. There’s really nothing wrong with the way you did it in this post, but one thing to consider trying is integrating the explanation of your media into a paragraph, instead of just having a lone sentence above the video. It may help with the flow of the post.
Finally, great use of the screen-shots of the Color app! They illustrated what you were talking about very well. One final suggestion: (once again, it’s a minor change) I would suggest maybe italicizing the word “Color” in your title and even throughout the post. I’m not sure if that’s technically correct, but because it’s such a common word, it might help set it apart from the rest of the text so your readers know you’re talking about something different than the traditional use of the word.
I really like the way your blog is looking and this entry looked extremely sharp.
ReplyDeleteI love the topic because it is really interesting. I'm just curious as to what is going to happen to flickr now, which I thought was the twitter for photos.
The relevancy of your sources and how you sited them were perfect. Same with the multimedia. I love the fact that you use pictures from the app.
The thing I don't understand is how it works. I don't think the way you explained it was confusing at all. It was great writing. I just think its weird the whole 150 foot radius thing. Otherwise, great great job.