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Our HyperLocal Future: A Revisit
This is something I speculated and mused on back here and here. Specifically the 2nd of the two.
Anyway . . . while on vacation it seemed like TechCrunch was doing it’s best to steal my thoughts, which I of course stole from Wired, which of course stole from some crazy smart communications professor at an Ivy League school I’m sure.
But here are a couple of great links (all from TechCrunch) that illustrate just where the web is going.
YouTube Videos Within Google Earth - Like I mentioned in the aforementioned posts, the ability to geotag photos and videos to a specific location creates an experience that is much more life-like. If user generated videos and photos are available for review of a location before traveling . . . you’ll be much more able to get an accurate and non-tourist economy generated review of the location.
Specifically since the phone IS becoming the computer. Now you’re walking around the street in New York on vacation and trying to find a good place to eat or an attraction to visit near you. You are then able to pull up your mobile device/computer and check out vidoes/photos/reviews of the area’s offerings.
Flickr continues in this vein of geotagging by offering Places Pages.
Not to be left in the dark, closed-fisted Facebook joins in by creating the ability to advertise to specific “interests” groups by mining user’s “meta-data” and then using it to sell specific ad space to specific people.
And finally, web developers in China have made torrents and downloading 50x’s faster! Which in 12-18 months time will revolutionize the web again. With the web this fast . . . it will only be a matter of time before it’s next full revolution of creativity. The only thing that holds the web back now is the speed. The faster the web is . . . the more creativity and potential uses.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Or am I the only geek excited about all of these and what they mean?
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it appears you’re the only geek excited about it. Which is okay, nothing wrong with that.
i guess you’re right john.
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