A primer on geofencing, very useful.

Lotsa great stuff; see also Sha's comment on "distributed living rooms."

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Loopt went there first, but Loopt doesn't matter. GOOG matters.

Even *more* HOOAH.

Dennis Crowley (who should know) on Latitude and its weaknesses. For my own part, I'm distressed at its comparative lack of dynamic privacy options; for comparison, look at the loving way this is crafted in Fire Eagle. (I also know that, however hard Tom Coates and his crew worked to get things just right, a gazillion more people will adopt Latitude in its first day of use than will ever hear of Fire Eagle. Mostly Yahoo!-corporate's fault, I'm guessing.)

For once, a positive outcome from latent perpetual locational awareness.

This is important and, I believe, true - but happily, very far from irreversible.

"Someday you'll be OK with it." Well, maybe not. But the generation after? Sure, why not. They'll have fundamentally different conceptions of privacy and - most likely - civil liberties.

Uh...me, actually, on approaches to context- and location-aware educational technology, for the UK gov't. Cites area/code, otherwise recapitulates many "Everyware" arguments. Enjoy.

"A space-aware and resource-aware dynamic network architecture."

Via Jamie. "Legal issues associated with geospatial data and technology."

Very interesting: highly local information via mass service scraping.

I'll spring for this, and then of course iPhone 2.0 will hit the streets a week later with GPS built in. Via Coates.