Wherever You Go, There You Are: Thoughts on Identity and Location
A growing theme in new web 2.0 services is what I’ll loosely call location streaming, or the ability to transmit changes in your physical location to various networks on the web. Smart-phones of all kinds now have access to infrastructures (both on wifi or cellular networks) that can place their location reliably and quite precisely. This capability has arrived scary-fast, after a long period of hearing that “someday” it would be real. The future always seems to arrive while you’re out having a coffee.
