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Mid-Air Messaging?

Posted by michael on from the think-of-all-the-spam dept.

boogahsmalls writes: "HP has been working on a nifty little project by the name of Cooltown that allows users to "paint" the air with comments using GPS and mobile phones. A more extensive write up is available over at New Scientist."

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  1. think filtering by jonbrewer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any information can be filtered. If we have such a system, we certainly wouldn't have to receive everything all the time.

    Just look at Slashdot. I browse at +2, unless I have time and desire to read more. Slashdot certainly has a lot of crap, but I choose to filter is. It would be trivial to implement such a system for HP's Cooltown.

    Taking that further, I can see location-based annotation as a pay service. If I were Zagat I could charge people for the service of displaying ratings when they walked in front of a Restaurant. I know I would pay for such a service. I like walking around and finding nice places (As opposed to planning in advance), and I would pay to know beforehand from a reliable source what I should expect from the food.

    I can think of many other examples, but I think I'll rush to patent them instead of posting them on /. :-)