Geolocation and WordPress, making the Web a bit smaller
WordPress announced that they will not be left behind as Twitter, Foursquare, Brightkite and others attach your geolocation to posts. You now have the opportunity to share your location for posts for blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
Directly from WordPress, “in addition to geotagging posts, you can also geotag your profile. Interested in reading blogs by other people in your area? A quick search will find them, and in the future could even be used to organize local WordPress.com user meetups.”
Privacy advocates may be concerned, but this is not a default setting and is completely up to the publisher and person posting comments to decide to share this information.
Why do I like it? It’s simple. Google and Bing give me the opportunity to easily search content and Twitter is quickly becoming the first real-time search engine. Now, with geolocation we are able to aggregate content and comments by location. It will make it easier to find and collect information about, and from, a community brings everyone a little closer.
It also adds a level of relevance to the posts. All of a sudden you can tell if someone nearby shares interests, concerns, or is offering up an opinion on a local issue or debate. The Internet gets a bit smaller by adding geolocation to data and content.
It’s very nice to see WordPress continue to pave the way as a strong open-source blog and content management system. It gets more robust each day and sent a clear signal that they won’t be left behind.
