|
| Foto Martien via Flickr |
Can we just hurry up and download my entire face and brain into a damn cellphone already? All of this fleshing around is getting to be a huge drag. Color, a new app launched this week, is something like a combination of FourSquare and Facebook, in that it lets you take pictures of your own stupid face, then post them to an instant and changing network based on other people in the same location taking pictures of their own stupid faces. Walking all the way over there to see who's in the same room seems like a whole thing, says no one, ever, I think I'll just point my beak at this glowing screen and see what's what. The WSJ reports:
Whenever the app is turned on, Color captures a lot of data about the world around the phone, including GPS location, information from the gyroscope, and even ambient light levels. It uses that data to figure out where the user is — and whether there are other Color users nearby....
“I want people to begin the debate – do I want to live in an open world?” says [founder Bill] Nguyen. Color “makes life more like a small town where you share things with your neighbors.”
Or, you might say, the exact opposite of that, because applications like this mean in order to cover the distance from right over there and where you are right now you have to shoot information lasers (more or less) off a fucking space ship then back down to the ball cancer radiator in your pants.
The slogan on the Color website explains it in slightly different language:
Find someone. Take pictures together.
Party. Play date. Lunch?
Simultaneously use multiple iPhones and Androids to capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album. There's no attaching, uploading, or friending to do.
Share together in a new, moving social network. Just look around.
Exactly. Except for that last part. Don't do that looking around thing. Look right here at our thing. We monetized your eyes.
brought to you by
4 comments:
I don't get it. What is the purpose of this supposed technological development?
World peace? Not sure.
How else are you gonna be able to tell what's going on around you? Got a better idea tough guy?
Everyone just want to be recognized for having existed.
Post a Comment