How can technology create new layers and combinations of interactions and initiate new ways of bringing people together in real life? Jan Chipchase is wondering if location-aware programs can combine with existing retail spaces to create a whole new class of services.
He says:
I’m not a believer in the discount-coffee-voucher-to-your-phone location based advertising this being a particularly bad example of the genre. But we’re not too far from someone offering a mainstream compelling you-here-in-this-space-now service.
Is there a point when book stores offer online services that leverage people’s deeper driver’s i.e. Border’s make’s more from online match making services than the magazine’s [...]
March 20, 2009
Making New Connections
January 22, 2009
Living With Location-Aware Devices
Wired Magazine editor Mathew Honan took it upon himself to test out what it would be like to thoroughly take advantage of location aware software. Activating as many location based applications as he could, Honan tried to live an extremely open lifestyle where he constantly broadcast his every move, and actively used these applications to meet up with new people and find new things. His experience was mixed, and illustrates the complexities of dealing with this new kind of living. It seems there are many serendipitous benefits, potential mishaps and downright dangers to filtering your world with a 100% digital [...]
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