Surely by now you've heard all about Twitter. I'm sure you have, so I'm not going through the awkward step of even describing it -- it's something so simple, and yet once you add the mix of people, of one-to-many, to easy and immediate communication the simple becomes so much more powerful and wondrous.


Well, if you've been reading around these parts for the last year or so, you'll also recognize Mologogo, which is a GPS-Phone based application for sending your location, viewing maps and friends and a bunch of other fun stuff.


To go back to the old commercial (no, not the "ancient Chinese secret" commercial -- the "you got peanut butter in my chocolate" commercial), using Twitter's fabulous API, we've mixed the two together and the result is even more powerful. Now, using Mologogo, you can automatically update Twitter with a description of your actual location. The message will say something like "Mologogo thinks I'm at 5th and 33rd street, Manhattan" -- and get distributed to your Twitter friends -- via SMS, IM and whatever other channels they have deployed.


So, if you've got friends or family using a phone (with SMS) or on some kind of IM client (AIM, for example), you can run Mologogo and let it send these descriptive updates automatically -- letting them know where you are, and letting them follow your motion through your trip, or even just through your daily travels. Fun stuff -- and probably more than just fun, too: an element of personal security ("I made it to Dallas"), publishing/participation ("Lookitme, I'm in the city!"), and so many other wondrous aspects to be discovered.


Open is great. API's make me 'appy. You can see where I've been, too...