Location Changes Everything
Dec14
by Lawrence Coburn
Hello World! There’s a new data point emerging in social media that promises to change the way that web meets world. Location.
Services like Gowalla, Foursquare, Loopt, Google Latitude, Yelp, BrightKite, Flook, Stalqer, MyTown, Rummble, and many more are racing to integrate location to provide deeper, richer, and more social services than what were possible before.
“Simply put, location changes everything. This one input—our coordinates—has the potential to change all the outputs. Where we shop, who we talk to, what we read, what we search for, where we go—they all change once we merge location and the Web.”
- Mathew Honan, Wired Magazine
LocationMeme will be our best effort at tracking and analyzing the companies, trends, data, devices, and entrepreneurs that are shaping our location aware future.
Ready or not, the web is becoming location aware. Thanks for joining us as we explore this emerging space.
