Geeplog?
If you correlate GPS data tracking your position and time with date-stamped photos and voice/text commentary, you can come up with a pretty cool web-based visualization [ you must click this link - it's awesome ] of the trips you take in your life. Even better, using here-now formats like RSS, you can easily connect the data feeds of you and your friends to have a mob-blogged/collaboratively annotated experience.
I was thinking that something like this would be useful after I attended a friend's wedding last weekend. Wouldn't it be cool if I could type in the date/time/location of the event and be able to browse through other's photos and/or thoughts on the event? I know, what a geekish thought about a wedding for-crying-out-loud, but OTOH I took some pretty cool photos. It would be nice to lower the sharing barrier to entry to simply having interested parties look them up via google/kazaa/etc.
There's no end to how cool this is. If I photo-geep-blogged myself, my four month-old daughter would be able to dig back into the big part of her history that we share when she's older. Pulling up all photos from the summer vacation house on the lake, holidays with the extended family ... Very cool.
Hmmm. Must... acquire... gps.
Resources:
Smart-mobs
The merging of GPS and the web
I hate to say it, but billg did a decent job foreseeing the "Documented Life" that a geeplog implies in the first edition of his book "The Road Ahead". The description and implications of a documented life have stuck with me since I read the book about 10 years ago - suffice it to say they don't stop with looking at family photos :-).
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