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I think most people here are missing the point, probably because of the gimmicky examples in the landing. Geolocation is not about localizing experiences, it's
by duopixel 15y ago
I think most people here are missing the point, probably because of the gimmicky examples in the landing. Geolocation is not about localizing experiences, it's about providing sensible defaults and contextual information.
For example, the problem with "upvote" button littering, just can just show the upvote button from the referring service (say HN or reddit).
Or just autoselect my country in a form, it's a pain going through the country dropdown, even if it's a fancy autocomplete widget.
Or just provide me an appropriate zoom level when I'm looking at your world-wide locations in your embedded Google Maps.
- the-cakeboss 15y agoYes, thats what I see in this. While getting this information is fairly trivial, having a service to actually derive meaning from those metrics is valuable. One of the most interesting future for mobile computing is the prospect of contextual computing. I don't see why it couldn't apply to both desktops or laptops.