Fire Eagle GPS Mashup
Locative media Twitter
Social Google Latitude Location-sharing
Geotagging
Mobile
Lauri Laineste
IMKE
Monday, March 9, 2009

Technologies today
• Yahoo! Fire Eagle
• Google Latitude
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Yahoo! Fire Eagle
Monday, March 9, 2009

1 000 000
Google Latitude Attracts A
Million Users In A Week!
Monday, March 9, 2009

Reasons for sharing
your location online
• Tracking friends, kids,
parents, pets,
criminals?
• Tracking somebody’s
travels
• Geosocial networking
Monday, March 9, 2009

The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
• Designing the experience of
geosocial networking.
Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
• Designing the experience of
geosocial networking.
• Designing the experience of
geosocial gaming.
Monday, March 9, 2009

Parallel Kingdom
Monday, March 9, 2009

Designing the
experience of ... ?
Monday, March 9, 2009