February 28, 2008 Web location and Physical location Posted by Peter Harbeson at 09:28 AM | Categories: Mobile Web Design

Here's a fun idea: VerveEarth is plotting bloggers on a world map. It's a Google Map, I think. It seems to be quite new, as it's still in beta and the map is not very well populated yet. This idea suggests things like moving the affinity-based connections now exploding on the web into the physical world on a more local level than "big" conferences where everybody goes to, say, Paris all at once.

As blogs become partially hosted on mobile devices, an obvious extension of the VerveEarth idea (that they're probably working on, for all I know) is plotting your current location and indexing by affinity or topic. That would be a way to discover, for example, that an author of one of your favorite food-review blogs is in the same restaurant you're in right now. Which could in turn lead to new connections, and for that matter, you could end up as a guest reviewer. "Oh, you had the salmon? How was it?"


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