Sunday, April 08, 2007

MashUp Startups Respond to Google My Maps


location based services


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The thing that I think is too often missed, is in the idea that the "social" conceptual metaphors of these applications are becoming redefined through each step forward in their creation - and sometimes through mistakes made, or elegance acheived.

The idea that we can create a technology that enhances social awareness of the values added by mapping or observance, whether private or personal, allows us to see the world in a unique way that transcends our living solely at ground level - both physically and psychologically. With that, may come an awareness that improves our sociological values, collectively, in how we view the planet and others around us - our governments, nature, our needs toward our own inherent sense of survivability in a world that we otherwise feel powerless to make change.

The idea that new vertical markets are somehow in any kind of threat, to me, is a ridiculous assumption - when we're only just scratching the surface of the creation of whatever vertical markets will manifest in time. To think otherwise, in my mind, is simply defeatist in nature - something that Newton would have probably very quickly had a quip to in response.

If we deny the fact that this is just the beginning, then how will be encourage our younger generations to become involved, to become interesting - to become passionate? This is the time to look forward, not in the now or the past. This is a time to be entirely wrapped-up and passionate about the everything involved in these discussions. And it's a beautiful time to do so, as the paradigm will shift either with our input, or without it in the end.
#1 Daniel (Link) on 2007-04-06 14:45 (Reply)

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