The ‘Cola’ OS platform allows users to interact in a novel way that makes texting more convenient. Its ‘Bubbles’ allow you to message other users in text message-like threads with shareable maps which include user location & with interactive calendars. The team recently announced that location-based weather from the Weather Channel can also be included on Bubbles & have made available a Bubble Development Kit (BDK) that allows developers to leverage their current APIs & services.
David Temkin, CEO of Cola & a Silicon Valley veteran, has commented that the platform is an OS for messaging that allows 3rd party services & info be incorporated directly into the message stream, so users don’t need to jump around from messaging to other types of apps (like calendars & navigation) & back again. The introduction of the Weather Channel into the platform is part of Cola’s effort to make things easier for 3rd party developers by making their BDK available.
Other claims made by the CEO are that 1 Cola Bubble can let you do what would usually take 10 to 100 conventional texts. Not in vain the motto of Cola is to ‘text less, do more’. The app itself is available on iOS but it can interact with other mobile platforms using text messages as well as through a Web interface.
Examples of some of the types of Content that could be put into Cola are things like: a flight tracking bubble, document approval, live scoreboard, a meme generator, a coupon, a movie picker, an issue tracker bubble…
Cola, a free iOS app, uses React Native, so to get started using their development environment you need Note.js, which is the JavaScript runtime used for bundling Bubbles. Cola recommends that you use Atom as your IDE, the Nuclide Atom plugin & the Google Chrome developer tools if you don’t install Atom/Nuclide.
Click here to download Cola on your iOS app.
- This post is merely a startup profile based on publicly available information & not a review. –
Image Credit: Cola
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