geo-networking sites en vogue

By Mike Davison

http://www.feedmap.net/ maps the blogosphere against a Google Maps style API. It also allows you to download a tiny map onto your blog highlighting where you are in the world. Also check out www.plazes.com for a similar geo-tagged networking feast. Not many people on there at the moment but the potential is there for big growth. Initiatives like this are set to explode as GPS based mobile devices proliferate. Talking of which, here’s a particularly novel use of GPS mobile devices. Sweden’s 700,000 dog owner’s will sleep easier knowing they will soon be able to track their lost pets via their mobile and GPS collar.

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