Today, I discovered Twittervision and Flickrvision. Neither is a technology that enhances my productivity (quite the opposite), or makes me more efficient, or gives me more flexibility at work. Both are simple but hypnotic mashups of Google maps with Twitter and Flickr respectively. Go to Twittervision and watch in almost-real-time on a map of the world as people send short text message (SMS) updates to Twitter on anything they are doing or thinking about at the time. Go to Flickrvision and watch in almost-real-time on a map of the world as people post their photographs.
They are fascinating sites that may not change the world in time-saving, efficiency-boosting, information-processing ways but they might change the world in a kinder we-are-all-the same-after-all kind of way.
