location, location, location!
So, the ideas I’ve been working on revolve around the idea of location. Location and our connection to the locations and spaces around us. Location aware technologies are blossoming! and we are only just starting to scratch the surface of what is possible. The possibilites are endless and instead of just letting the technology run it’s course we have the abillity to steer the direction that it takes it and thats exactly what people are doing.
The “Where 2.0″:http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where conference was an incredible step in the right direction:
Location-aware technologies combined with mapping and other data are poised to create a whole new class of web apps and services. Maps are becoming an interface, helping us to visualize and access a variety of data. Location is fertile ground for hackers and researchers who mash up Google Maps with Craigslist or plug restaurant info into dashboard navigation. Call centers, insurance agencies, transportation companies, and retailers are finding unconventional internal uses for location technologies too.
But where is location-based technology leading us in the larger sense? And where’s the business model beef? The first Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into this technological frontier. Join us to debate and discuss what’s viable now, and what’s lurking just below the radar.
“PlaceSite”:http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~savage/ps/ was one of the applications demo’d at Where 2.0.
PlaceSite introduces a new way of using wireless networks — to create digital community services by, for and about people who are together in the same physical place. PlaceSite is an open platform for a new breed of Web service tied intimately to physical places.
Sounds like a really cool project! It’s open source too so I’m going to see about getting involved somehow. This is a mild diversion from what I had in mind though. I think the key to location aware technology is first establishing our individual connections to space. This is going to help us come to term with the subtleties and complications that we are bound to encounter. Once we have that figured out and once we have a better understanding of what kind of information becomes relevant to us on the move, sharing information is going to be so much easier.
And we have a wealth of information to work with. This from the book “Inescapable Data”:http://www.inescapabledata.com
As communications, computing, and data storage converge, data is becoming utterly ubiquitous… and that changes everything. In their new book, authors John Webster and Chris Stakutis reveal how data transforms the way you do business, the technologies you use, the investments you make, the life you live, and the world you live in.
So lets see where this takes us!
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