In a world of little online privacy, it seems natural for location based social media to thrive. Users of sites such as Foursquare and Facebook's location options allow users to share their whereabouts and swap information and happenings in their area.
A new mobile app that has become particularly interesting to me is TagWhat; an application that allows users to upload mobile photos of landmarks around their location, adding personal commentary to the image. Commentary can include personal stories, random facts, historical information, deals, tips, anything others may find interesting (or... not).
Maps meet scrapbooking meets Facebook meets Groupon in TagWhat. The potential to share deals and helpful information based on your location could reshape social media. The application undoubtably has a long ways to go, but it's potential is exciting.
Blogger Natalie Giddings addresses the differences TagWhat offers in comparison to other social media outlets in her blog, saying:
"What differentiates TagWhat from Foursquare (and what makes it more like Facebook), is the fact that it eschews the formers' game mechanics and focuses on the user interaction and community building aspects of the latter. The basic use of TagWhat is that it lets users turn a view of any location into an engrossing, educational experience, as users provide interesting stories and entertaining information about every single thing that can be captured by your camera - think a diner and its history is interesting enough? I Love this examples they give on their website. Try to point the device at the tables, perhaps a user has tagged the exact table where a famous actor used to sit during his lunch breaks. TagWhat makes the world more interesting."
Read more: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/augmented-reality-meets-location-based-social/#ixzz1a7bHNVet
It'll be interesting to see how well it takes off!
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