It’s becoming easier and easier to take advantage of a mobile device’s ability to pinpoint your current location. Here’s a list of starting points where you’ll find Firefox add-ons, Blackberry’s, iPhone apps or other items of location based interests.
- fire eagle: if you have access to it (its in beta stages while i write this) fireeagle will help you manage your location based data from one place. You tell it where you are, and other sites or networks will know where you are.
- google mobile maps: get google maps on to a handful of mobile devices, get functionality similar to the iPhone’s copy of google maps.
- loki: tools like a firefox add-on to allow websites access to your current location using javascript. (fireeagle for example can update your location if you have this firefox addon without you manually typing it.)
- bright kite: a social network that uses your location to narrow down who you communicate with. a great example of how to use a visitors location in a site. also offers a mobile and iphone version of the site for on-the-go use.