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  • The information is useful because it’s relevant to the location. And it becomes manageable in the same way that the 10s of millions of pictures on flickr have become manageable, through tagging.
  • the latest ‘big thing’ has been the socializing of the Internet.
  • The next big thing is…’location, location, location’.
  • The next big thing is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location
  • The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.
  • Google wasn’t the first search engine, nor was it the last, but it quickly became THE search engine because they did something different. Google created a search engine that took all of that information and made it useful and relevant.
  • By tapping into the social side of information, Google quickly became the best search engine
  • So the latest ‘big thing’ has been the socializing of the Internet.

  • So the latest ‘big thing’ has been the socializing of the Internet. We now find sites like Digg, reddit, Del.icio.us, etc. that help us wade through all the rough to find the diamond. The buzz word surrounding all of this has been ‘Web 2.0′. This socializing has gone a long way to making sense of it all, but is there more? What is the next big thing?



    Realtors have been giving us the answer for years, although they didn’t know it. The next big thing is…’location, location, location’.


    Think of how we access all the information of the Internet. We do it at a desk where wires keep us attached to a specific location. Laptops help us branch out a bit, but even then we are tied to a wireless connection. Go too far and you no longer have access to information.


    Mobile devices have begun to allow us to take this information with us, but we are still stuck in an old paradigm. If I am standing in the Madrid, Spain train station, there is a good chance I want to ride a train somewhere. But when I connect to the Internet on my mobile device, I’m stuck finding information the old way: through keywords. Somewhere out there is information that would help me, but all I have our my not-as-useful keywords.


    The next big thing is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location. Think of the last time you were at a national park. It’s a very good possibility that the only information you had about the park fit on a tri-fold paper that you picked up at the visitor’s station. In the information age, how is this acceptable?


    Instead, imagine visiting the park where hundreds of visitors have linked information to specific locations. You have the architect of the visitor’s center who tells you the history of the building. As you move around the park you access information provided by geologists, geographers, botanists, biologists, environmental scientists, conservationists, hiking enthusiasts, bikers, etc. etc. etc. The information is useful because it’s relevant to the location. And it becomes manageable in the same way that the 10s of millions of pictures on flickr have become manageable, through tagging.


  • The buzz word surrounding all of this has been ‘Web 2.0′. This socializing has gone a long way to making sense of it all, but is there more? What is the next big thing?
  • The next big thing is…’location, location, location’.
  • The next big thing is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location.
  • Pictures and Wikipedia articles are now linked to Google Earth.
  • The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.
  • Web 2.0 has helped us begin to organize and make sense of that information. Tying information to a location is the next step
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