Online Social Networks and ADDRESS 2.0

Post the 4th

In my last post we talked a little bit about Web 2.0 applications starting to connect to one another. We have seen applications like Twitter connect to Facebook and tell people about your current state. Address 2.0 simply adds LOCATION to your online experience. For example, photo-sites like Flickr allow you to geo-tag(hip lingo for: a spot on a map) your photographs.

For Fun:

1. Go to maps.google.com
2. Enter any location. You can even try Greensboro.
3. Make sure Photos is selected in the MORE menu at the upper right hand corner of the screen.(just left of map/satellite/terrain).
4. Zooming in and out of the map should produce an array of photos for you to click on and view.

Remember the milk has also mashed(incorporated) it's data with maps. You can now add a location on a map to an item on your list.

Address 2.0 is not only about where you have been but also where you are. For those of you with Gmail accounts, Google has just added the ability to automagically add location to your e-mails. The possibility now exists for someone to be able to see what you did and what your location looks like by a mere e-mail. I encourage you to take a look at some of these applications, have some fun and see what people are doing...and where.

Danny