Floozy Speak!

The web is a playground of ideas, but its not completely new.  We've always had ideas, mostly in our own heads, on the web we tend to see ideas fleshed out over and over and over from one creator to another to the users and believers in such ideas.  Harvesting the pulse that then manifests into an idea is something I've always enjoyed doing.  A pulse goes through various stages of influence and awe.  You can either faintly hear if you're on far edges or its loud as a drum pounding in your heart.  You see it, you believe it, it will come to pass.  For most folks I think the pulse is on the far edge of the radar, for me, I think, I'm connected to it. 

I was going through my delicious bookmarks yesterday, cataloging and tagging all my "untagged" links I had in there.  Some 389 links that had no tags.  I spent a good 2 hours testing each link, deleting them or tagging them as needed. 

Doing this exercise was like going back in time, awaking old memories as I continually explored the well of my mind- yesterday, last month, last year, 2006, 2005, 2004.  Along the way you can't help by notice what trends you latched on to, ideas you had, set in stone as things to be.  The rise of web 2.0, that itch about that search company Google, the power of social networks, wild about data-mining and text analysis and the world of location based services you knew was going to be here soon.  All of those brief flashes of light were like hundreds of druming pulses in my heart, I just knew it was happening, it was going to be.  The flavor of the drink could often change but you knew it was going to be something, something yummy to drink. 

For the longest time, that pulse in my head and heart was location based services or LBS.  Now I sorta feel like LBS has arrived in an array of flavors.  Google's on the scene, LBS type offers are appearing in cellphones, GPS is abound everywhere, the concept is out of the bag and into th kitchen of everyones mind, forming, and reforming and manifesting in a hundred different strains of potential goodness. 

In the past few months a new concept, well not completely new, its always been in my head, but in the past 2 months I've had more than few dozen pokes, jabs, sightings, links, posts, nudges and so on that the world of Augmented Reality is quickly coming to pass.

Sometimes I think to myself, what's the origin of this idea?   In my reference of mind, where did it begin, how did it first formulate into being?  It may of been scratch in my head for a long while but it was after watching Dennou Coil that my mind awoke with the hard hitting pulse of Augmented Reality.  Ever since then I've had some good discussions about various ideas like it from Fast Times at Fairmont high to a new book from Oreilly, to various sightings of AR on youtube recently.  Then this morning I come across Oreilly again refering to PMOG as being AR-ish related.  Need to get the kit and play around.

AR will probably morph into my new obsession.

Tags: ar, augmented_reality, pmog, vernorvinge, fasttimes of fairmont high, dennou coil, oreilly, lbs

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