2011-03-24
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quote 18:02:00
“ In short, if Color is used by a statistically significant percentage of folks, nearly every location that matters on earth will soon be draped in an ever-growing tapestry of visual cloth, one that no doubt will also garner commentary, narrative structure, social graph meaning, and plasticity of interpretation. ”
John Batelle, arguing Why Color Matters: Augmented Reality And Nuanced Social Graphs May Finally Come of Age.
I know that for the hip young kids, Flickr might as well not exist, but it’s had Places pages for a while. They let you get recent photos from, say, New York.
Now, there’s probably a lot more that could be done with these (I can think of two little changes off the top of my head). But compared to Color - who reportedly spent $500,000 on domain names, only to serve a single page - Flickr’s already got hundreds of millions of geotagged photos, and the infrastructure to search and display them. If I wanted to build something looking at the history of places over time, I know which service I’d look at.
