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Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS

Posted by timothy on from the idea-whose-time-has-come dept.

meiocyte writes: "This New Scientist story about leaving messages in empty space seems very cool. You upload a message (or perhaps a picture, audio clip, etc.), it gets tagged with your GPS coordinates, and then anyone else who goes there gets to see/hear it. Every GPS-resolvable parcel of empty space will have its own web site!" Combine this with user-forums, and restaurant ratings could take on a whole new dimension. Update: 01/20 23:28 GMT by T : Oops -- looks like I duped Michael. Sorry.

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  1. Moderation needed by Mike+McTernan · · Score: 1, Troll

    I percieve the system to be an open message board, but more intrusive and perhaps more relevant/tied to the real world.

    Like slashdot, I think that the system would be used to post a hell of a lot of crap, ASCII art spam etc.... but with some nuggets.

    Where slashdot suceeds is that users can moderate, metamoderate and filter out the crap. Unless this system is capable of similar checks, it would be doomed to failure as it filled with garbage and then spammed everone with it....

    Long live CoolTown. Long live CTNotes. Long live Alistair Mann!!!

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    -- Mike