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Happy holidays, Socialight fans!

As I was thinking about another year gone by without the advent of mass-market flying cars, along came this quote about Socialight in a piece from The Press, New Zealand (22 December 2007):

…get ready for computing’s fourth wave. We have had the mainframe, personal computer and internet eras. The next big thing is going to be mobile computing coupled to the ‘‘geoweb’’.

It has been a science-fiction dream for a long time. To have a phone that not only— and affordably— browses the internet, but which is plugged into a geographically aware version of the net. Simms [Tomizone] says that, as you walk around, the phone will know where you are and bring alive your environment accordingly. Overseas, new kinds of social networking sites like Socialight are gaining traction. You can attach cyber notes to locations so anyone walking past will be alerted to events or have a run down of the inhabitants and history of the place.