Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own / It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your _______ is?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti () gmail com>
Date: October 12, 2005 2:58:05 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Location tracking -- for people, products, places  
-- is fast coming into its own / It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where  
your _______ is?


On 10/11/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming
into its own
It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your _______ is?

Dave -

I use a system called Plazes to help keep track of my
comings and goings.  It uses beacons from my laptop
to identify wifi access points and lets me register any
new access points I find.  People who are in the system
can see their friends and where they are, and if you
choose to you can publish a history map a la
   http://beta.plazes.com/whereis/edwardvielmetti

There are a couple of good stories around why this
is a reasonable idea if your life is such that other
people knowing where you are is an advantage.
It's proven useful to me more than once where
people have noted that I am within a short drive
or walk and have set up on the spot meetings.
That page also regularly gets pinged from home
when I am out so that Deb knows that I've been
at the ice cream shop.  (I don't go to Vegas so
that has not been an issue.)

Location enabled and mobile computing have
been watchwords for such a long time, it's
nice to be using something that actually
makes use of these ideas and to see what
the accidental or deliberate social implications
are.

thanks

Ed

--
Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti () gmail com
http://www.vacuumgroup.com

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