It's 8:18am, I have until 8:33 to define the 15 ways geo tagging will spread its wings in productive and interesting ways in 2010.
1) Urban Transit - transit shelters will increasingly be equipped with presence devices - telling people when next buses are coming, who's on the bus and how crowded it is
2) Dating Sites - imagine understanding everybody in a crowd's appetite for romance - from hot to trot to totally off limits
3) Urban Games - playing iPhone enabled location-specific games - Amazing Race for the City meets Scavenger Hunt meets Capture the Flag
4) Social Universe Dashboard- having a live map of your top 30 friends and where they are on your city grid - it's like a stock market of friendships
5) The Party and Happy Hour Tracker - knowing where the action is in a given city, by popularity of geo tagged location - avoid the lineups, find the after hours lounges and drink specials
6) The Concert Check - having a just-in-time readout of where the best music is playing at what venue
7) Shopping Mall Red Light Specials - receiving time specific and lifestyle specific offers and sales tagged within a shopping mall environment
8) Tourism Checkpoints - tagging the 500 must see sites in different cities, having time-alotted tours based on mode of travel
9) Taxi Cab Fleet Map - being able to phone the closest spotted geo-tagged taxis to arrive at your place of pickup
10) Geo-specific Eventbrite/Meetup - find out where call your relevant clubs are meeting in the city on a map
11) Gawker Stalker - the paparazzi are alive and well - find out where the celebs are hanging out in the city- TMZ culture lives locally
12) Red Velvet Club - an exclusive club of influencers and VIPs getting securee app access to backstage entrance to the best restaurants and clubs in the city
13) Sample Sale - find out where inventory sales, overstocks and end of season stuff is being thrown over the side of the retail ship
14) Municipal Services - at any one time, find out where the nearest police, garbage truck, snow plow, ambulance and other essential services are - sleep in bed longer knowing you haven't missed your garbage pickup
15) Who are the people in Your Neighborhood? - find out the interests, professions and habits of people living around the corner from you and establish some new connections with your local community again - the idea of town hall comes fulls circle
Now add yours?
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