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Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own / It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your _______ is?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:53:18 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti () gmail com> Date: October 12, 2005 2:58:05 AM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own / It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your _______ is?
On 10/11/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your _______ is? Dave - I use a system called Plazes to help keep track of my comings and goings. It uses beacons from my laptop to identify wifi access points and lets me register any new access points I find. People who are in the system can see their friends and where they are, and if you choose to you can publish a history map a la http://beta.plazes.com/whereis/edwardvielmetti There are a couple of good stories around why this is a reasonable idea if your life is such that other people knowing where you are is an advantage. It's proven useful to me more than once where people have noted that I am within a short drive or walk and have set up on the spot meetings. That page also regularly gets pinged from home when I am out so that Deb knows that I've been at the ice cream shop. (I don't go to Vegas so that has not been an issue.) Location enabled and mobile computing have been watchwords for such a long time, it's nice to be using something that actually makes use of these ideas and to see what the accidental or deliberate social implications are. thanks Ed -- Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104 +1 734 276 5910 edward.vielmetti () gmail com http://www.vacuumgroup.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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