I’m at Brooklyn Future Meetup that is focusing on location based services, including FourSquare and Britekite, tonight.

http://www.meetup.com/digitalmedia/calendar/11193003/

First point is Twitter adding Geo-location data puts more “dots” on the map, and has profound implications in how quickly location based services like FourSquare can evolve into something far more powerful.

Also, knowing that your friends know what your doing and where you are, will influence, change our behavior.

The excitement on location services in this room is very strong, but for every solution, new issues crop up, and I’m not as excited about location based services as many in the room.

This meetup deals with how technology will change the future.

One change that will happen, is you will actively avoid people, and at the same time, meet others, based on alerts. We’d be able to make real time decisions on real time data, including who to date, etc.

One vendor talked about all the geolocation data they already get, and how difficult it is to make sense of it without physically seeing the locations – data is not descriptive enough, it turns out – but in 30 years?

Stickiness of situations will change, and THAT has profound implications. I would think Seth Godin would want to weigh in here (aka Purple Cow), and when I see him at MIMA next month, in Minneapolis, I’ll ask him.

New Deal on Data – any data you create, you should own. Citysense is a service that stores a lot of location based streaming data, but allows you to destroy it.

Mech Networking – who will control it, regulate it, in 30 years from now? Some feel that unless we address Privacy Issues now, the governmert will step in for us. Perhaps an issue of trust.

Questions:

1. How will geolocation help the third world?

Answer: One example is TB tracking, doing predictive analysis, is a possibility.

2. How will location based services help political situations like the Iran Elections this spring?

Answer: providing location data provides validity to some types of reporting. Let’s use location based data to get the government to respond and be responsible ( there are X amount of complaints in this neighboorhood, but not enough tickets served, etc).

In closing, a lot of the companies doing this location based services are in New York.