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I played around with FoundCity, an ITP thesis project which leverages geocoding and tagging.

FoundCity allows users to tag 'finds', things they deem of value, in their city and then share these finds with other users. A photo of the find is displayed on a map along with del.icio.us style end user tags of the find.

My interest in FoundCity is as a spring board for a geopsychology project. Mobile use is running parallel to the early days of the web. We started with individual transactions, "give me this web page" and slowly moved into the concept of sessions and batches of transactions that relate to each other over time and by order. For example, "you must login to post a message" involves multiple transactions that need to occur in a certain order.

I want to consider what would it mean to create sessions on a mobile phone using a lowest common denominator platform such as SMS. Foundcity shows me discreet finds related to an individual user and their tags but I am more interested in the path that was created between the finds. Paths must have a start, an order and an end. I'm thinking of building a SMS grammar which will allow users to record and potentially share their paths.