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Mobile Technology Weblog has a story about mobile virtual Post-It notes.

It is related to attaching annotations to a particular place or - vice versa - locative metadata to different kinds media.

GPS World runs a story about WorldBoard.
This is a system that allows you to place virtual notes at specific locations around the world - a kind of digital Post-it Note, that others can find and read in the future.

Huh? Well, an example might be that you see a flower growing in the wild. You leave a note for future passers by that the flower is endangered, that it's called a Robbins Cinquefoil, along with a picture of it in full bloom. And being in an inspired mood, you record a poem you've just made up and leave an audio file of that too.

Others can access that information, either by visiting the physical location or by accessing it over the web. Hence, if you wanted to see a Robbins Cinquefoil for yourself, you could find the nearest one to you.

Jo Walsh has more information about the locative media in the semantic web:
1. Locative Packets
2. Recommended Vocabularies
... these links point to the locative.net site.

Also about locative meta-info: managing information about locations [B:\datenbrei blog]