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Monday, March 26, 2007
Geocaching, traditional vs future
Geocachers use GPS units to find hidden treasure describes how geocaching (hiding stuff and then mentioning its coordinates to others so they can retrieve it) has been done so far.
It's a no-brainer that there will pop up lots of such services that will rely on phones with GPS in the future. Those services could support blogging, chat, photo sharing etc so you could tell others when you've found a new treasure, and also team up with others for a quicker find. You could even invert it: Show a photo of a place and let others report its coordinates.
Geocaching contests (find the most treasure in the shortest amount of time) seem pretty likely too.
By nature geocaching is somewhat local, so many geocaching services could co-exist. Then there's the question of bottom line, and as with many Web 2.0 services this is arguable, unless combined with advertizing and other (commercial) offerings.
It's a no-brainer that there will pop up lots of such services that will rely on phones with GPS in the future. Those services could support blogging, chat, photo sharing etc so you could tell others when you've found a new treasure, and also team up with others for a quicker find. You could even invert it: Show a photo of a place and let others report its coordinates.
Geocaching contests (find the most treasure in the shortest amount of time) seem pretty likely too.
By nature geocaching is somewhat local, so many geocaching services could co-exist. Then there's the question of bottom line, and as with many Web 2.0 services this is arguable, unless combined with advertizing and other (commercial) offerings.
