[Sigia-l] NWWW

[Eryk Orłowski]

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: That would be "NotWorldWideWeb":
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: Geolocation: Don't Fence Web In

hi

first, i completely do not agree with thesis of the article - The World Wide
Web experience is becoming less and less worldwide: What you see and what
you are allowed to do these days can depend greatly on where and even who
you are - it is internally inconsistent to me. 

idea of geolocation leads to content geo-targeting - how to show content
that is the most valuable for user, depending on his location. think
globally, display locally ;)

lets continue:

i don't see any strong arguments against geolocation in the article.all that
are presented, treat geolocation as some kind of absolut:

"Someone in Chicago, for instance, may prefer flower shops in New York to
send flowers there.

And video of the Olympic Games largely remains off the Internet, though NBC
will be permitted to provide highlights within the United States during the
Aug. 13-29 games in Athens. "

-- if "send a flower company" uses geolocation this way, it is obviously not
the problem of globally wrong geolocation - it is the problem of this
technology being used in a wrong context. second, why not to present olympic
games transmission wordlwide, and use geolocation to present geo-related
adds or content?

"AOL still poses problems, as do anonymizing services designed specifically
to hide a user's true identity and location. Dial-up users also can call
another state or country to connect."

-- those who use anonymyzing services know how to deal with the geolocation
problem. and they are probably about 3% of internet users.

what is it all about? i do not see a problem with using geolocation
wisely...

cheers

eof