Location Voice Tagging

Alright, this is an interesting one. I ran across a service today, Geo Graffiti, that lets its users call a number at any time to tag a given location with comments.

Confused? Consider this...

You're walking down the street in some city and see a really cool art display - think random locations in Seattle or something. You pull out your phone and call Geo Graffiti, which recognizes your number and prompts you to leave a message. Next time you go back to your computer, you see a map of all the places you've been, along with tags in each geographic location that you left one.

Now little voice tags are only so interesting. Imagine a mobile app that can access your camera phone, or the collective effect of a community all tagging in the same city. Or imagine concrete moments in time - like a certain song at a concert - that you could record and forever relive on the web.

After a while, the map becomes your digital journal organized by time, geographic location, or whatever else. Pretty cool way to chronicle your life.

ReachCards.com and Information Overload

I was reading a post on TechCrunch from last week (quite a few spirited posts and comment wars over the last 4 days, eh?!) about email overload and how communication has changed over time from the telephone days. Lots of interesting thoughts and comments on this, including my own (hopefully interesting) ones.

Until I get a chance to write it all out, I wanted to point out an interesting site that tries to deal with this problem. Check out their "About" page (linked from the site footer) for some videos about how it's supposed to work:

http://www.reachcards.com

I don't think they've got the whole story told here, but they're on the right path, IMO. More to come...

How to Save Money Running a Startup

If you're looking for an(other) insightful blog to follow, I recommend Jason Calacanis' blog which covers his experiences as CEO of Mahalo.com - an interesting collection of posts about life in a startup:

http://www.calacanis.com/

Two particularly interesting posts have been:

17 Way to Save Money Running a Startup:
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/

Large Monitors (and Many of Them) Increase Productivity:
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/10/large-monitor-productivity/