Henri Bergius: Weblog: Zeitgeist does location: what did I do while in Brussels?

Zeitgeist does location: what did I do while in Brussels?

Zeitgeist, the desktop activity logging engine is now becoming geo-aware. From Seif Lotfy's blog:

It allows you to ask Zeitgeist stuff like

“Get me the recent files I edited at university”

“Who do I contact most when I am at School?”

“Which pictures did I take in Brazil?”

“Where was I when an Email came in?”

“What files did I open during the conference?”

As I've been advocating since 2006, location is important for making applications smarter. While you might not remember where you stored some file, you probably remember where you were when working on it. Then Zeitgeist's location features, powered by GeoClue, will be able to get it for you.

This is especially cool since Zeitgeist is coming for Maemo as well. My laptop is quite mobile, but the N900 is even more so.

Comments:

Hugo Roy on 07/22/10 13:40:18

You mean Meego, not Maemo? :-)
Also, I can't wait to have geolocation working in Hamster and Getting Things Gnome!

Henri Bergius on 07/22/10 14:04:03

MeeGo would probably be even easier than Maemo considered that it has GeoClue and Tracker already in place. But in his blog entry Seif explicitly said Maemo.

Hugo Roy on 07/22/10 14:17:23

ok! BTW, I'm surprised that Gwibber still doesn't enable gelocation… do you know a good Twitter/Identi.ca client that handles it?

Henri Bergius on 07/22/10 14:45:01

in UDS Ryan Paul said he is looking to add GeoClue support into Gwibber. No idea about the schedule, though. I'd like to have this (and maybe location visualization via osm-gps-map) for the Qaiku Gwibber service

Michael Kanis on 07/25/10 08:33:50

It's nice, that I can ask these questions … but what's the point? I still can't see a use-case for this. Am I the only one, who thinks that Zeitgeist is the answer to questions never asked?

Hugo Roy on 07/25/10 09:51:16

IMHO, it's useful. It's like an improved "Recent Documents." if it can have geolocation, why not.