social networking

It's not about who you are, but where you are. At least that's what a whole range of location based games might lead you to believe. It's not that many years ago that owning a GPS was for the advanced walkers, sailors or military among us. Now, they are everywhere and various recreational pass times are really benefiting from their prevalence. This article will talk about location based games, including a discussion about the security problems that they can cause.

If you're following the technology curve, you'll have at least one GPS enabled device on your person almost all the time. Most modern SmartPhones have GPS technology as do iPads and surely similar tablets will do too. Ok, well, how true that last statement is we'll talk about in a minute. Let's just assume that our devices know where they are on the planet and leave it at that for now. If our devices know where they are and they almost always have access to the Internet, then it follows that we can download content that is relevant to our current location.

Twitter is over capacity again as I write. This is no big problem in itself. I can live without the constant stream of witty and insightful interruptions to my day. Hey, I might actually get some work done. But the problem is indicative of Twitter's failure to scale its infrastructure to meet demand. The service is free, so who am I to complain? They might do better if we were paying for the service.