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Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality?
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CmdrTaco
on Tue Jul 01, 2008 02:36 PM
from the or-maybe-a-little-of-both dept.
from the or-maybe-a-little-of-both dept.
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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buzzword hell. they just keep coming .... (Score:5, Funny)
It's all about ego (Score:4, Funny)
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Just imagine...if we all had geospatially-enabled Slashdot: geommicroslashdotting!
I respond ... (Score:3, Funny)
(Note | This "Geostationaryonlineposting" Post was posted with AMD 4800+ Dual core/PlainOldEthernet IBM PC Compatible tool, from coordinates 3242.3384, 2265648.55384603 - [Livingroomores Cajoles] 138 Antalya 24 (96 Boulevard Rigavigsdak) - TR - 07.07 AM, from approx 3.5 m distance to the loo. (margin of error ± 50 cm)
Geostantionaryonlineposting - brought to you by the same internet which introduced you to Megaonlineshitting. stay tuned.
To answer the Headline: (Score:2, Offtopic)
But seriously, I appreciate the majority of
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Key word in there is VOLUNTARY...
Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:5, Insightful)
You beat me to it. There is a world of difference between voluntarily giving your position and other information about you and your current activities, and the Government of Industry tracking your position and other information about your activities without the ability to opt out.
That being said, I'm not interested. If I want people to know where I am going to be I'll tell them if they need to know, not post it or have some 'micro blog' tracking my every move. I don't need to blog it or broadcast it. Maybe I am showing my age but I am really finding all of this stuff to be getting increasingly silly.
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Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:5, Funny)
7:00AM - Woke up
7:10AM - Started coffee
7:30AM - Drank some coffee
8:00AM - At work
9:00AM - Still at work
10:00AM - Why are you still reading this?
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Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:4, Funny)
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10:15AM - Still at work.
Dear Sir, (Score:3, Insightful)
I see you are a coffee-drinker. Please accept this coupon for 50 cents off your next coffee, good at the Harbucks at the corner of nth and xth street, which you walk by every day at 7:52am.
Seriously, did you know MySpace uses the crap people put on their profiles, to select the ads to show to those people? Every bit of seemingly-useless crap you spew, can be used somehow.
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You're new here, aren't you?
Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter.
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Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:5, Insightful)
"I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter."
I think what the GP had in mind were not those people who are concerned about vountary vs. involuntary exposure, but the situation where a person wants their information to be concealed from only SOME people - eg. getting upset at employers who read Facebook profiles. Folks now have wider circles of people they are comfortable sharing privledged information with, but still don't want that information known by specific others. So where once a "secret" was information shared by a small number of trusted people, now we have information that is to be HIDDEN from a small number of UNTRUSTED people. This is a patent impossibility, but still people expect to be able to do it.
My wife is a substitute teacher, and got a Facebook profile and added her nieces and nephews as friends. And now she knows to within a few days the exact time that one of them lost her virginity. How on EARTH she expected to keep that information from her family, while simultaneously allowing access to everyone who wanted to be her "friend" is beyond me, but I do know that she wanted it kept secret - her profile page was sanitized shortly after my wife joined.
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My wife is a substitute teacher, and got a Facebook profile and added her nieces and nephews as friends. And now she knows to within a few days the exact time that one of them lost her virginity. How on EARTH she expected to keep that information from her family, while simultaneously allowing access to everyone who wanted to be her "friend" is beyond me, but I do know that she wanted it kept secret - her profile page was sanitized shortly after my wife joined.
And this includes two reasons why Facebook could soon be jumping the shark if it hasn't already.
Firstly, the inherent problem with social networking sites of managing your different groups of friends and keeping them separate (assuming you know how to do so) gets to be more hassle than it's worth as (a) your groups of friends and (b) the amount of people using social networking in general grow. (This wasn't my idea, but the person who came up with it pinpointed the "more hassle than it's worth" saturation
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I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter.
Well, it just depends on how easy it is to get info out of various sources and what not. Just the other day I was looking at those DVR 4 camera security cameras out at sams club. They are around 1000-1500 and you can hook them up to the i
It's not that simple (Score:3, Insightful)
What happens when a large number of people who are either directly or indirectly associated with you begin volunteering information that they don't know/think encroaches on your privacy, and may not actually encroach on your privacy, but when aggregated, gives a clear picture of activities that you'd like to avoid making public?
Re:To answer the Headline: (Score:5, Interesting)
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?
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Privacy is a social agreement (Score:3, Interesting)
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
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About $10m if it's the right person.
Seriously (Score:5, Funny)
If anyone ever uses the word 'Geomicroblogging' with me in conversation I might just break several of their bones. When will the madness stop?
Re:Seriously (Score:4, Funny)
Buzzwords are one method geeks use separate venture capitalists from their money. I think this is a "good thing".
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When will the madness stop?
with geomacroblogging? or something at least equally disturbing.
Re:Seriously (Score:4, Funny)
Ooh, I bet you could get their address by mashing up their MySpace, with a whois query on their IP address, and then tie it into Google Maps! Then cross check that with Twitter, and bam! You've got an interactive slide show of their every move.
(If you're a VC, please make the check out to 'Creative Applications Serving Humanity'...CASH for short.)
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Oh, FFS! (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody gives a rats ass about where you are when you tell the world what you are doing...Unless it's hilariously unintentional.
"JUST BANGED A HAWT GURL BEHIND THE CLUB!!!!!"
Location: Mom's basement
I twittered to tell everyone I was in the john (Score:5, Funny)
And the other obligatory.... (Score:2)
Sin Fest [sinfest.net] variation of this.
I suspect this is a good time for this (Score:2, Funny)
The Nokia N95, E61 etc (Score:5, Informative)
Already have GPSs on board, already have mapping on board, already have photo and video, already have a "lifeblog" on board to sync the phone info up with your favourite blog.
What I'm saying is, it's been done already, you guys are so 2005.
Next greatest blogging product! (Score:4, Funny)
I have the next new big product in blogging... its called "aLife". aLife is currently not available where you are sitting now, but for the low price of $1,000 you can order yours today! aLife includes adventure, romance, excitement, and best of all it includes a lifetime guarantee! If you want a blog that everyone on the internet will read, simply get aLife and you might just find that you acutally have something interesting to write about!
I understand blogging, I don't do it because I think I'd rather live my life than write about it, but I get it.
I just don't understand why so many people are so excited about being able to blog in so many different ways... if it doesn't improve the quality or the value of the content what good does it do?
I don't know the figures, but I know that at least 99% of all blog traffic is to less than 5% of the blogs on the internet, and I know why that is... CONTENT! Give these bloggers a tool to create better content!
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simply get aLife
But will I have to leave my mom's basement?
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Give these bloggers a tool to create better content!
You mean they need a brain that functions AND aLife? Awfully high bar to reach judging from most of the blog content out there.
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"I understand blogging, I don't do it because I think I'd rather live my life than write about it, but I get it."
That's laughable. A few 'bloggers':
Einstein
Darwin
Freud
Madam Curi
I am glad they blogged. Granted it was paper and pen, but the point is the same.
Clearly, you are more important then those listed~
Yes, most of it is crap but so what? no one forces you to rad it.
"I don't know the figures, but I know that at least 99% of all blog traffic is to less than 5% of the blogs on the internet, and I know why
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We have lots of words for the same things (Score:3, Insightful)
A good example is the word 'stupid'
Just off the top of my head I can think of quite a few synonyms
Idiot
Moron
Nitwit
Simpleton
Asinine
Fool
Jackass
Rum-dumb
Dense
Oaf
Thick
Unintelligent
Witless
Geomicroblogging
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Since you just mixed nouns and adjectives, which one are you?
/me takes off grammar nazi hat
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Yes, yes I know the perils of writing anything on the internet these days. Just take some consolation that I didn't use 'pwn' or 'lol' in my post.
Build it in to glasses (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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More like guBlogging (Score:2)
The k1ddi3z are lazy, abbreviate everything, and don't know what a Greek mu is, much less how to type one.
And it'll be pronounced "gooblogging"... not the most appealing tech term.
I can't wait to blog from the summit of Everest! (Score:5, Insightful)
Other applications... (Score:4, Insightful)
I think we're headed for another dark ages (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
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No, your parents actually talked to real people, their friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. Word of mouth was literally word of mouth then, and guess what? They didn't always *have* to visit an eatery to see if it was good or not. They could often find that out from someone they knew and trusted rather than some anonymous author of a review on a website.
It is entirely your fault and it *was* a conscious decision. Don't bemoan your choices; either embrace them or change them.
Whatever losers (Score:4, Funny)
I geonanoblog, which is easily a thousand times cooler.
When world collide (Score:2)
Shill (Score:4, Insightful)
I wonder if the anonymous submitter works for Fire Eagle or byNotes, since there's no content to this story but saying how these sites are going to change the world.
Let me get this straight... (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the point?
It is not intended to catch on (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody would call anything 'geomicroblogging' if they planned for it to be routinely used by millions of people. Can you imagine? "Hi, did you see my geomicroblog the other day? I posted some stuff about geomicroblogging. I'm sorry, the reception isn't very good on this cell phone - the address of restaurant we're going to is on my geomicroblog. No, I said geomicroblog. GEO MICRO BLOG! Oh never mind, it's Andy's Bar And Grill, which is the same number of syllables anyway."
If by some random chance this actually caught on, the word would immediately be shortened (see: "blog" from "web log" from "personal content management system").
I propose "gumble."
-Graham
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