Comments on: Why Data Matters, Another Interesting Signal: Direction Requests

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:52:51 +0000

If they over look this someone else might take advantage. The Google Maps has a wide array of API's that permits feeding their data into your apps or overlaying your own data over theirs. May be an opportunity for AOL's Patch...?

I imagine the Android team is all over this, though, with location-aware apps. Seems like it would be ideal for mobile web functionality more than desktop.

By: Richter Scale

Richter Scale — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:11:33 +0000

Increasingly we are going (want?) to view digital reality as real reality.

It is really interesting recent pop culture (movies) has so many references (e.g. Adjustment Bureau, Limitless, Source Code) to augmented reality.

Are we being prepared for what is to come?

Interestingly, in 'Popular Science Nov 93' issue (try Google Book search), there is a 'Special Electronics Section' on 'The Digital World'.

The articles are interesting today for the 1993 perspective, have a look at the one titled 'The Sense of Reality' on page 96.

I think we have to be very careful with recontructing the real world. Like the article said, "Ever get the feeling we are not in Kansas anymore?"

By: John

John — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:19:58 +0000

Thanks Susan. Fixed the typo. hate that when I do that (rush a typo into a title of a post) it screws up TweetMeme counts totally. Probably Google too.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:11:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is a very interesting point of view on location data.

I guess mapping out driving directions never seemed like making a "vote" for that "place", but I can certainly see that now and also just how useful that data certainly could be.

BTW, the word "interesting" in the blog title is missing an "e" character (typo).

Cheers,

@SusanBeebe
@Dell