In this trendwatching podcast, Nora Young says she too, like everyone else, loves that new Cee-Lo Green song:

Cathi Bond, though, not so much. She’s more on the Eminem/Rihanna tip:

What do you think? What should be the ’song of the summer’?

In more tech-related news, Cathi talks about BAE System’s amazing new helmet for detecting the impact–and potential head injury–of accidents. Currently in use in the military, can’t you imagine this being used in sports? (via Gizmag)

Nora mentions the launch of Facebook Places, the latest in a series of location-based services that let you ‘check in’ to locations, or, unless you opt out, have your friends check you in. Facebook already has a considerable ‘network effect‘; could this be the watershed moment for location-based services? Would you use Facebook Places?

 

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In this trendwatching podcast, Cathi Bond talks about icanstalku.com, a site designed to show how geotagged photos may present privacy problems.  It looks like the creators discussed it at the recent HOPE hacker conference.

Nora Young talks about face2face, a new service along the lines of Gowalla and FourSquare, but which aims to give you a bit more privacy (via Technology Review).  Do you use location-based services? What’s your comfort level around privacy?

 

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In this week’s trendwatching podcast, Nora Young mentions Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows, and also Matt Richtel’s New York Times article about the compulsions of being ‘always on’ digitally (thanks, Without Mittens).

Meanwhile, Cathi tips us off to the possibility that California may opt for license plate ads (via Gizmodo).  Is this part of the future of location-based ads and services?  Will the future of advertising truly look like Minority Report?

 

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