So Google Local is now mobile too, and it’s around the blogosphere already. It seems like the prediction of the geolocation world of IT blending into our real-lives was spot on. Now google’s in our cellphones, and we have to wonder what the next step of integration will be - hopefully globalization, because GLM is US only for now and I could certainly make use of it here in Europe.

Now, there’s people who consider mobile devices as the endpoint for most technology and services being created today. While I don’t agree completely (for me, computers are the endpoint for most of the things I’m building), I must admit that the connection between mobile life and services is fascinating. Finding a “pool” in “San Francisco” or, as I needed badly (during my two months down in the Bay area) a “barbershop” in “Atherton, CA”, is now as easy as getting the cellphone out of the pocket and query the web.

I wonder how long it’ll take for other mapping and Local services to go mobile too - knowing the grounds, I’d say not long. Again we have to wonder, though, what extra bonus can the future services bring that make us ditch GLM and move to an alternative? We’ll see, I guess.

What I know I’d like to see though is new services that can improve our productivity and social lives using an object that also has the power to bring them down - obviously the cellphone. Developers need to get the tools in their hands to make this a reality - we’ll see how that goes.