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Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
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#22I don't get it.
I've installed the app and still don't get it.
I have no idea what problem does it solve?
I've seen http://view.io during SXSW - didn't work that well (not many people were using it). Concept was very similar - pictures of interesting things near you taken by other people with some descriptions. Nobody was declaring this app the next google.
Social network for mobile phones that is the next big thing???? I'm sorry but I don't buy this. Facebook will clone this using their location service + photo sharing functionality and there you go. 41mlnUSD down the drain.
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#23I think the knee-jerk cynicism about valuations and raises is blinding a lot of people on HN. Sure, Color's 41M is a lot, and it is YAPSS (Yet another photo sharing service). But Reading the techcrunch article about it, it sounds like one of those "sum is more than the parts" things, like the iPad or Google search results. The integration of all the sensors and data to automatically determine your connections and mai…
Thats it. This isn't photo sharing, it's dynamic ad hoc social networking that is exciting people.
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#24Sequoia is not going to give $25 million away without good reason. It's just that folks like us can't see the good reason. Either the "good reason" is being hid from us for strategic reasons or Sequoia made a big mistake and the app/company is a dud.
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#25I think the knee-jerk cynicism about valuations and raises is blinding a lot of people on HN. Sure, Color's 41M is a lot, and it is YAPSS (Yet another photo sharing service). But Reading the techcrunch article about it, it sounds like one of those "sum is more than the parts" things, like the iPad or Google search results. The integration of all the sensors and data to automatically determine your connections and mai…
A lot of Facebook's growth was driven by photo sharing.
This is an understatement, if anything.
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#26I think the knee-jerk cynicism about valuations and raises is blinding a lot of people on HN. Sure, Color's 41M is a lot, and it is YAPSS (Yet another photo sharing service). But Reading the techcrunch article about it, it sounds like one of those "sum is more than the parts" things, like the iPad or Google search results. The integration of all the sensors and data to automatically determine your connections and mai…
but isn't that what the money is good for?
This just made me think that Color's best use of that money is using 10M to pay 1M people 10 bucks to use their app for a week.
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#27I hope with 41M of funding and 18-24 months until they need to raise again that they are willing to throw out many revisions of their product until they get one that truly "revolutionizes" life. Right now so much is focused on hype and so little is focused on product/potential roadmap of where this could be in 5 years(compressed to 1 year).
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#28"Not since Google have we seen this" I'm sorry, but this is the biggest line of bullshit I've seen in a while. Here's the thing: no one saw Google early on. Google happened, more or less, organically. They implemented a better algorithm and gained a lot of users by providing better results. Color appears to be Instagram + location awareness. Awesome. I can't wait to use it, but to call it "Google" is just ridiculous.…
Give the Sequoia guys the benefit of doubt. They probably have seen something more (related to the product) that the rest of us havent or might be privy to other features in the pipeline.
Obviously, they're a bunch of smart people who have backed some of the biggest companies in the tech landscape.
In short, dont be so hasty to judge.
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#29I think the knee-jerk cynicism about valuations and raises is blinding a lot of people on HN. Sure, Color's 41M is a lot, and it is YAPSS (Yet another photo sharing service). But Reading the techcrunch article about it, it sounds like one of those "sum is more than the parts" things, like the iPad or Google search results. The integration of all the sensors and data to automatically determine your connections and mai…
Cynicism aside, I kind of get what they're trying to do - minimise the barriers to active participation in social networks (and therefore maximise the effectiveness of targeting) because it figures out things like tagging and networks for you. Unfortunately for them, I think the hurdle of "can I be bothered to join yet another pointless, invasive service" is a bigger one to cross than "can I be bothered to tag all my photos on Facebook". Even with inferior technology, I'd fancy Facebook could build a better model of which friends I associate with the most and where, if they wanted too.
Then there's the problem voiced elsewhere that intentionally collating all that data is just a bit too creepy, and I say that as someone who couldn't care less about Facebook privacy settings and thinks CCTV in public places is generally a good idea.
Re: Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
#30Has anyone else tried using the android app? Its at 1.5 stars on the market, and on my device (G2), it did not work at all. It appears no QA was done on a number of device types.
I'm really surprised that Color is using Sequoia's brand for PR on WSJ, Techcrunch without ensuring that what users see on Android is not just plain awful.
I was / am really excited for this product, but this seems like a botched launch to me. Thoughts? Would it have been better for Color to delay launch? Will this have a negative impact on Color's brand? Sequoia's brand? Or will Color simply fix the Android app after a few iterations and provide a better and better user experience in true startup fashion?