http://www.mishmap.com Location and Technology Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:11:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The world wide web began as a bunch of simple, unconnected pages describing various interesting topics like famous dead presidents and upholstering strategies. It was eerily quiet because no one left a trace.  Then through some clever url formatting and the invention of cookies, websites learned to tie together each ... http://www.mishmap.com/2009/01/02/the-group-web/ What if it there was a tagging mechanism to annotate content with time relevance? It might facilitate indexing and exploration of the "recent" web instead of forcing us to drown in antiquated content.  While the Temporal Relevance slider enables human annotation of an item's projected loss of importance, this decay could ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/11/25/temporal-tagging/ I watched the N-Judah MUNI bus whiz by last night in San Francisco's Sunset district. I could easily have caught it if I busted into a quick jog, but with two buddies behind me, I figured it wasn't worth the collective effort. Still waiting 25 minutes later in a chilly, damp ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/10/05/i-missed-my-bus-ambient-web-please-help/ I'm impressed by Small Worlds, the virtual world (now in Beta) by New Zealand based Outsmart. Unlike worlds like Second Life, Small Worlds is an in-browser flash application that works without an audience diminishing separate download. As I'll explain in this post, it has the potential to bring ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/05/31/small-worlds-and-the-group-web/ I'm reading Everywhere by Adam Greenfield and came across a few paragraphs that describe today's facebook/twitter reality. With employers googling and myspacing potential new hires, it's unrealistic to be both a content publisher and expect a work/play division. And above all, what happens when the composite view we are offered of ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/04/13/no-more-work-play-division/ Be sure to read Harvey Feldspar's recent geoblog about the impact of location-awareness: "Hyperlocality is transforming our lives at every scale: bodyware, roomware, streetware, cityware, nationware, and global ware. From nano to astro!" http://www.mishmap.com/2007/06/28/hyperlocality-from-nano-to-astro-or-life-imitates-web/ Something irks me about the recent hype surrounding the new Facebook Platform. Visually, these new applications all look the same and it feels so bland. Universally celebrated by both users and programmers, Facebook's decision to open up its ecosystem to developers certainly spiced up a social network formerly known for its ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/06/19/avoid-fancy-applications-with-the-facebook-platform/ A mobile social network can recommend events of interest by analyzing information from users with similar profiles. For example: Miguel, a gay 30 year old New Yorker vacationing in San Francisco, wakes up on Sunday morning wondering what to do. His cell phone beeps with a text message suggesting that he ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/05/19/event-recommendations-by-mobile-social-networks/ At Mobile Monday earlier this week, Ajit Jaokar focused on UGC (user generated content), what he calls the "holy grail" of mobile web 2.0. Instead of waiting for carriers to uniformly open up GPS triangulation to consumers through their APIs, he encouraged developers to take advantage of the falling prices ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/04/20/smells-like-collective-intelligence/ At BigTribe, we've developed a compelling web service that allows any publisher (bloggers or website owners) to instantly become a destination for services like: booking restaurant reservations golf tee-times hotel rooms inviting friends to events checking weather conditions finding interesting places nearby Our product is called Geohana, its name inspired by taking Hana, which means "family" ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/04/04/geohana-location-based-web-services/