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 hCard. I press the microformats bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar to download the converted vcard into my address book. Thanks to MobileMe, my updated address book is soon in the cloud online. My iPod Touch 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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