Where 2.0 Day One Wrapup
The first day of Where 2.0 is over, with Google announcing their new streetview perspective and Garmin announcing that they are opening up their API to third parties allowing anyone to build upon their web services. This should be a big boon for people who find their GPS to be indispensable for athletic training. The present state of the art required a certain level of geekery to get data off and on your Garmin. Now you’ll be able to plug it in and pull/push data immediately to/from a social web site. Maybe i’ll even start using mine? All I need is a nicer memory card.
The Google street view on the other is fairly incredible and a little brave new world-ish, kind of like everything Google does these days. I was able to look through my window in Brooklyn and also see that cars were on the opposite side of the street. It was street cleaning when the photos were taken.
One other project i’d like to highlight is Quakr which builds an immersive world out of user generated, geocoded Flickr photos. You can imagine a day when you’ll be able to navigate through a simulated world curated by your friends’ content. Well maybe that happens now, but only conceptually. This project attempts to realize that vision.
In other news, WayMarkr was shown at the Where Faire and Dennis Crowley also perfected his white boy, drunk, ollying off benches technique I have coined dork-our. Hope the phrase takes off.
