We are entering a new era in computing. The explosion will start this summer and is just beginning now. The Geoweb is quickly forming via the iPhone + Twitter + Twinkle. Thanks @twinkleking ! Please add pic links via tinyurl and toss out an API! 🙂 At any rate, you will probably notice I haven’t blogged much. Well, that’s because I’ve been working my butt off and also because I’ve found micro blogging, or using the communication superhighway (Twitter), to be much more rewarding lately. (it took a while for me to get into Twitter so I understand if you don’t "Get" it yet.)
Limitations
The limitations of Geoweb chat (Twinkle lets you set a radius around you to receive tweets on your iPhone) is that if you are responding to the local Twittersphere, there is a good chance that things are being taken out of geo-context. You don’t catch all of the conversation. If you increase your radius, there is more noise, but you catch more, and you have to remember that the smaller the radius, the more geo-relevant you are tuning into. One of the problems I have is I like to have my twitter account running on many devices concurrently, and that seems to be a small problem for the time being. Another problem is Twinkle sucks up battery life, so if you own an iPhone and are thinking of upgrading when the GPS units come out, I would recommend you hold off until the Atom processor finds its way into store shelves.
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