Small world, loosely joined

I’m in Seattle. Dopplr tells me that Bobbie is showing up in Seattle on the last day of my visit. I send Bobbie a direct message on Twitter. He tells me the name of the hotel he’ll be staying at.

I use Google Maps to find the exact address. All addresses on Google Maps are marked up with . I press the in my bookmarks bar to download the converted vcard into my address book. Thanks to , my updated address book is soon in the cloud online. My gets the updated information within moments.

I go to the address. I meet Bobbie. We have coffee. We have a chat.

The World Wide Web is a beautiful piece of social software.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 12:32am

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