Sunday, 4 May 2008

Locative Media : PodCaching and MoSoSo

Podcaching
PodCaching is just one of the many combinations of existing technologies with positioning we’ll come across in the near future.
“According to Andrew Wooldridge, what if we could combine Podcasting with Geocaching. Meaning instead of subscribing to a “show” you subscribe to a “location” – a GPS location. These locationcould coincide with Geocaches so you could do things like listen for hints as to where to find the cache, list to cothers talking about the history of that location, or some funny things that happend there.” (
http://andrewwooldrdge.com/blog/2004/10/idea-podcaching.html)

MoSoSo
Mobile Social Software like Friendster, facebook etc. Is asoftware that associates geographical location and time with such a social network. Most projects help you find and communicate with kindred spirites based on your profile.Mobile social software will be a very common things soon. There is already all kinds of software out there and this will only increase. I can also see all kinds of groups forming and sharing location based information and media like for instance music fans, people going out to theatres, clubs, restaurants, people looking for a date and all based on the friend of a friend mechanism. Geography is an essential added filter; it providers a context for your needs.

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