The document discusses location-sharing technologies like Fire Eagle and Google Latitude and reasons for sharing one's location online such as tracking friends or travels. It also examines designing experiences for locative storytelling, geosocial networking, and geosocial gaming through technologies that enable geotagging on social media platforms.

1. Fire Eagle GPS Mashup
Locative media Twitter
Social Google Latitude Location-sharing
Geotagging
Mobile
Lauri Laineste
IMKE
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2. Technologies today
• Yahoo! Fire Eagle
• Google Latitude
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3. Yahoo! Fire Eagle
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4. 1 000 000
Google Latitude Attracts A
Million Users In A Week!
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5. Reasons for sharing
your location online
• Tracking friends, kids,
parents, pets,
criminals?
• Tracking somebody’s
travels
• Geosocial networking
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6. The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
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10. The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
• Designing the experience of
geosocial networking.
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13. The research
question
• Designing the experience of locative
storytelling (locative news).
• Designing the experience of
geosocial networking.
• Designing the experience of
geosocial gaming.
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14. Parallel Kingdom
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15. Designing the
experience of ... ?
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