Today at the KERG seminar we were discussing on the locative media applications and the uses of locative media. As it’s also the direction of my master thesis I shortly talked about my ideas and the reasons for sharing your location online.
The slides of my today’s talk:
Locative storytelling
TechCrunch recently covered a story about Twitter’s new idea for serving local news. People often send tweets about what’s going on in their neighbourhood and if Twitter would know your location, it could easily inform you what’s going on at your location.
“Users could be alerted to the fact a fire is burning a few streets away from where Twitter knows (or thinks) they are.”
Geosocial networking
The social networks will get a new dimension because of the mobility and local aspect. You could meet friends that are close to your location or meet new people who have same interests as you and are in your neighbourhood at the moment. For example, during the Locative Technologies course we came up with a concept of an emotional mobile application: Pada.
Another good example would be aka-aki, the mobile application for following your friends on a mobile device.
Geosocial gaming
Mobiles games that consider your location in the physical world. One example would be Parallel Kingdom, that is a World-of-Warcraft type of game, that uses GPS to place the virtual world on top of the real world.
There is much interesting going on in this field. Sharing your location online has been made accessible for everyone and following your friends on a mobile device seems to be reality and not the future anymore. Google Latitude, which was launched only a month ago, is gathering one million people every week to share his/her location online.
What could be the initiative for such massive location-sharing?
Posted on March 9, 2009
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