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Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

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Re: Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

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Post by jrussino »

phlux wrote: post #79
dstein wrote: post #4

"But how exactly is Color going to make “wheelbarrows of cash”... the company is still very early on, but it eventually plans to offer businesses a self-serve platform for running deals and ads $41 Million for a photo sharing app and this is the best they came up with? You gotta be kidding me.

Here is some tinfoil for you... Assuming they have a back-door API - this could be a freaking BOON for intelligence gathering arms that are seeking to know the surrounds of anti establishment types. Further - wait until you apply spatial modeling capabilities (what was that MS tech demo called?) where you can start building 3d navigable models of spaces that all the data collected in that 100' radius allows. Dont thi…

I think the "MS tech demo" that you are referring to is Photosynth: http://photosynth.net/

Re: Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

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Post by rivo »

flyosity wrote: post #58

I just tried out the iPhone app and I'm pretty disappointed. Color seems like one of those ideas that would be pretty rad if 1 million people already used it. Because no one has the app yet, if you fire it up it's totally blank. You take a picture of yourself, post it, then the rest of the UI is whitespace. There's nothing to look at or do. It's possibly the worst first-run user experience I've ever seen. I wonder if…

Maybe it would help to increase the proximity radius dynamically so you always get results. It probably would have made your first-run user experience better, even if the photos had been taken farther away (same city, same state, or same country).

Re: Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

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Post by epynonymous »

epynonymous wrote: post #144
joshu wrote: post #135

http://color.com/s/njo9KY

meagan's a hotty.

why the downvote? this is not just some random comment that has nothing to do with the article; i was merely making a social comment via performance art about how easy it is to stalk with this tool. meagan's picture can be found at the 8AM mark, she's an attractive woman and what caught my initial reaction.

as an aside, there should be full disclosure and responsibility for all hackernews users, who down voted me?

Re: Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google

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Post by bob12 »

geoffw8 wrote: post #32
aepstein wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Bill recently acquired the domain color.com for $350K" according to Steve Thommes in the TC comments.

i might see if I can get colorapp.com for £3.50

Why don't you buy colorapp.com then Geoff
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