{"id":80,"date":"2006-04-06T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=80"},"modified":"2006-04-06T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:03:35","slug":"plazes-dodgeball-and-enterprise-microformats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/04\/06\/plazes-dodgeball-and-enterprise-microformats\/","title":{"rendered":"Plazes, dodgeball, and Enterprise Microformats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Track my geolocation! Please!<\/h2>\n

While at the BEA summit<\/a>, I had some lovely scotch-talk with two BEA folks along the lines of, “why can’t I just track everywhere I go?”<\/p>\n

Now, not everyone has this sentiment. There is one person in particular that I know who won’t buy a metro-card because then The Man could track their every move on the subway. Instead, they buy tickets each time they take the subway.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against that sentiment. No problem. I don’t even have a desire to make fun of it, which means a lot from a smart-ass like me.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, people like me don’t mind telling The Man where I am<\/a>. Perhaps this means the black helicopters<\/a> will get me sooner, but I’m banking on The Zombie End of the World Scenerio<\/a> over the New World Order Scenerio<\/a>. It looks like that might be a poor bet<\/a>, but I have invested heavily in fire-works<\/a> and consulted with Romero<\/a> and Savini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plazes.com<\/h2>\n

\n“I’m a free man\/With no place free to go”<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That understanding out of the way, I was delighted to find Plazes.com<\/a>, a web-site that tracks your where-abouts via an agent you install on your desktop. (I can hear people’s privacy bells going off now.) So, here I am now at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse<\/a>, and it has figured out where I am based on some networking magic.<\/p>\n

I’ve only used it for 2 days, so I don’t know the whiz-bang magic it’ll do once I build up more checkins. Hopefully “zombie are near” alerts.<\/p>\n

Mobile-Mania!<\/h2>\n

But where, dear readers, is the dodgeball<\/a> integration? Dodgeball is like crack-berry for gadget, geolocation freaks like me. My habit has gotten so “normal” that Kim finally stopped rolling her eyes in my general direction each time I’d dodgeball in our location. Whenever I show up at a new locale, you can expect to see me hunched over my cellphone, thumbing in my new location…@genuine joe coffeehouse<\/code>, as it were.<\/p>\n

The reasons to use dodgeball are:<\/p>\n