Failing to snag users, Lunarr decides to shut down
Lunarr made some innovative web applications, but it never took off as a business. The Portland, Ore.-based company has decided to shut its operations as of May 10.
The company came up with creative web applications such as Elements, which I saw as a kind of visual Twitter aimed at stoking the imagination. Elements launched in February and got a good crowd of beta users, but it wasn’t enough to justify further investments, said Hideshi Hamaguchi,… Continue Reading
Lunarr’s Elements is a Twitter-like image-sharing tool to stoke the imagination
The downstream influence of social messaging service Twitter, which lets you message friends or hangers-on about what you’re doing or thinking at any given moment, is beginning to result in some interesting applications. One of those, Lunarr’s Elements, is kind of a visual Twitter, allowing users to share what they’re looking at with others.
With Elements, users can make friends in a Twitter-like fashion and then share Elements — inspirational pictures — with them. The application… Continue Reading