Monday, April 12, 2010

Location and it's importance

There is a lot of hype over location theses days brought on by the accelerating use of smart phones such as the iPhone and Android devices. Everyone's checking into locations, sending out geotagged tweets and uploading geotagged photos to flickr. Some of the content relates to the locations but it seems a majority of it is just metadata attached to the meaningful content. For my final essay, I want to look into what makes location special and what makes it a gimmick. Is communicating location essential for to telling a story or is this just a fancy new piece of data that we can combine with our content?

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