Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App

Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch:

Say you walk into a restaurant with twenty people in it. You sit down at a table with four friends, and start chatting. Then one of your friends pulls out their phone, fires up Color, and takes a snapshot of you and your buddies.

That photo is now public to anyone within around 100 feet of the place it was taken. So if anyone else in the restaurant fires up Color, they’ll see the photograph listed in a stream alongside other photos that have recently been taken in the vicinity.

A shame it wasn’t released in time for SXSW, since the main concept is to have multiple people around using it together. More info about the app and a link to download it for free on color.com.

Domo launching ‘pre-social’ mobile app ahead of SXSW

Rafe Needleman of CNET News:

Here’s what it does: It helps you find Facebook people who are near you and share your interests. The mobile app records your interests, musical tastes, work history, and so on, and then lets you find people nearby who match some or all of those categories. If you’re at SXSW and want to find someone who shares your interest in a particular musical group, Domo will help you find that person; you can message them through the app as well.

Plenty of location-based apps seem to be gearing up for this years SXSW. The two heavy hitters, Gowalla (who just launched an updated version of their Android app) and Foursquare (who just launched an updated version of their iPhone app), and a couple newcomers, EightBit and Domo.