Geo-Aware Apps Placing the Where into the WEB
Posted By Faye
Geo-aware applications are rapidly establishing a niche of their own which has a combination of some of the web’s most innovative technologies combined. From Google’s Mapping data and huge data centers, the social notes of social web sites and the real-time positional data of mobile computing through smart phones, they all meet and converge to produce maps with social function making it the latest “IN” thing all over the web. The internet has evolved many times before but the advent of the so-called WEB 2.0 (much hyped by Microsoft) that was greeted with gusto’ by many a web users simply as the social web it continues to evolve to this day. Add to that the huge leaps in computing power and getting them into the hands of the millions of computer users and smart-phone owners the world over and they connect into one very useful and social tool at that. Read the rest of this entry »