] Yes, but no. Its a cellphone. Its mobile. sure. like i said, and that's it's only technological advancement over the cuecat. ] People will run urban scavenger hunts by leaving marked stickers ] all over the place i guess you could call this advancement. ] I think memestreams users ought to sticker up the city. When ] you access the stickers you get taken to a memestreams thread ] about the physical location where you found the sticker, in ] the same way that the discussion bookmarklet ties you back to ] memestreams threads from web pages all over the net. that could be cool, but i think GPS will become small and cheap enough, soon enough, that this tech won't stick. the article was super lite on info all in all... i wonder how much data a given watermark can represent, and i wonder just how it's made not too visible to consumers, but identifiable by software processing a low rez photo. I also wonder how much you'll have to pay for both the service and the licence to create watermarks of your own... i guess i just see it as a gadget, more than a transformational tool, and as the latter, i'm not sure i like the transformations i forsee. i'll reserve judgement, i suppose, until some real information is published and i get a better feel for why it's a good thing to be able to tag the earth with URLs, especially when it's a literal, physical, nonbiodegradable tag, potenetially many of them, all over everything. while a ways off, a better solution is to tag digital resources with the geographical location (or region, or state, or whatever) relevant to them (if any). So, if you want to know things about "here", whereever you are, let the gps inform the network of what "here" is, tell it what degree of specificity you want (again, regional, state, city, or right-fucking-here-where-im-standing) and get back results from the network of documents relevant to your location. Lists of restaurants, nearby public phones, attractions, stores, maps, directions, someone on your contact list having lunch at the bistro on the next block, the website for the store you're in, current flight schedules for the nearby airport (with your flights at the top, since you've got that data in an email and your KM knows about that...). This is the kind of real world convergence i want. And i want it out of a 8.5 x 11 x .3 inch, sub-3-pound tablet too, while i'm tossing my futurist cap on. ;) privacy and security concerns arising from a personal network connected gps certainly bear some analysis, of course. RE: Watermarks connect IRL objects to the web... |