Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality?

An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone 3G and Android devices are coming this year, opening the mobile world for rich applications, while sites like Fire Eagle and byNotes are ready to move your blogging habits into the geospatial world. Are we going to watch the next boom when those devices and geospatially enabled sites get combined? Sure, the posibilities this would open are endless, but are users going to embrace these services?" I don't see how it can't change the world ... it has 'Micro' and 'Blog' in the name, and I'll always know where I was when I twittered to tell everyone I was in the john.

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Build it in to glasses

[Lord Ender]

Seriously. I want to look at an object and get information on it (hovering above the object in the font of my choice). I want to digg up or down and see comments to things like carnival rides, tourist attractions, and those nice ladies in the windows in Amsterdam.

I want to leave a comment on EVERYTHING and I want to see the comments others leave. GPS + glasses with HUD will change the world.

Re:Build it in to glasses

[idlemind]

Yes! I was thinking about this the other day. My idea was that people could tag stuff in real life with messages. They could be private or public messages. Then you bring up the camera/display interface and it shows you what messages are attached to whatever object you are pointing it at. Your glasses + HUD idea would be awesome.

I think we're headed for another dark ages

[blhack]

Has anybody ever considered that possibility that we will reach an over-saturation of information?

Sometimes its good NOT to know if a restaurant is good or not without visiting. People ARE individuals. We need to ability to make our own decisions about things.

Think about even the difference between my generation (i'm 21) and my parents. My parents had to go out and experience things first hand to get any sort of idea about them. I carry around a nokia 770 with wikipedia on it, and a net connection to wikihow. I can get on google local and read the comments to determine wether I want to go to a club or not. If something doesn't exist to me on google maps, it doesn't exist.

I know, i'm the guilty party here, but this wasn't a conscious decision. I did not come to the realization at some young[er] age that I could either embrace a technologically rich existence, or not.

Imagine what my children will experience, or their children, or their children all the way down. I rapidly see people losing their ability to think independently of their peers. Even the people who consider themselves intellectuals are virtually inable to come up with an original thought.
I completely blame this trend on the availability of information. Believe it or not, there IS such a thing as knowledge being TOO easy to get.

Re:To answer the Headline:

[Xtravar]

Privacy is a product of your life, as is your work and other byproducts. In a free market, the products of your life belong to you. This is inherently fair and makes sense.

I trade work hours for money from my employer.
I trade my money for items I want to buy.
I trade certain measures of privacy for social benefits.
I also trade certain measures of privacy for compensation from businesses.
If any of these transactions do not turn out to our mutual benefit, the dissatisfied party is free to discontinue the trade at anytime.

Essentially the government is trying to 'tax' our privacy for 'the greater good', just like they tax our economic transactions... for the 'greater good'.

Political ideologues on both sides of the spectrum don't quite understand this concept - they arbitrarily pick what's right and wrong when it benefits them.

But the smart monkey will realize that the reason people get so upset about these things is that it is inherently unfair to take another's personal products without their consent. Do you own you and your byproducts, or does the "greater good" own you? And how can you trust that the "greater good" is so great and good?

Privacy is a social agreement

[spun]

Privacy is NOT the product of your life. It is not a natural right, like you being entitled to the fruits of your labor is. Privacy is something that you may have on your property, if it can be physically arranged.

But privacy is making demands on other people, "Don't look at me!" What gives you the right to determine what I can and can't experience? I mean, the light and sound waves coming off your body aren't yours. If those light and sound waves happen to enter my eyes and ears, they are MINE.

Now, if you and I have an agreement, "you don't look at me and I won't look at you" then that is fair, and that is what we generally have in society. But it is because we agreed to that, not from some inherent right of ownership of all sensory phenomenon.

This is what I hate about libertarians. All they have is the hammer of property, so every problem boils down to ownership. It is ridiculous.