Awhile back, Microsoft and several larger companies started promising local information could be sent to your mobile phone using ‘location-based’ computing. The premise was that a business traveler could immediately get off a plane, then with their mobile phone, find the ATM machine, the taxi rank, find a restaurant, a hotel, and so on. But whatever happened to signs that point to the ATM machine, or just going to the information booth? What’s missing from this picture? Local knowledge is missing.
When you talk with the person at the information …

With the acceleration of mobile technology within the last few years, we’re now living in an increasingly mobile society. This blog is about this lifestyle, being able to create a ‘local’ sense of connection within your daily life, anywhere you go. Through mobile phones, remote TV, social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, we can now remain connected and in touch with anyone, anywhere, anytime, as if we were almost sitting next to them.
The first time this started to occur was in the mid 90’s where young travelers were …