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We’re in The Wall Street Journal again. Staff reporter, Amol Sharma wrote about us in a front page story in a special section.

Another creative application, says Richard Wong of venture firm Accel Partners, will be letting consumers blog about particular locations as they travel. Then those blog entries would be automatically tagged with their geographical coordinates. So if you were to post photos or blogs from, say, a scenic rest stop on a long drive, others could find the same spot later. Companies like New York-based Kamida that offer such “geotagging” services now require people to enter their location manually but are integrating GPS to remove that step.

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Fast Company notices that “Social mapping technology grows up a bit” and that Socialight is part of the next stage in its evolution.