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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Adding location to mobile blogging

"Cell-phone software makers are putting a new twist on Web logs by tapping into geotracking features in handsets. However, the location-based mobile social networks -- or LoMoSos -- are expensive to use so far, and wireless carriers have been slow to adopt them," reports CNet.

"One of the first such products is from WaveMarket, an Emeryville, Calif.-based software maker that invented a way for cell phone users to upload their location, along with photos and text messages, onto interactive street maps viewable by millions of other cell phone users."

Comment: This is something that is also being explored in the UK through the Urban Tapestries project, which I mentioned in my Smart Places article in Guardian Online. However, I don't think LoMoSos is one of those cute little acronyms that is going to catch on.

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