Geode

Mozilla is working on location awareness in browsers connected through a wireless network. For Firefox 3 a plugin was released, and it was suggested it will be in the core of Firefox 3.1. It seems silly to let your browser determine where your laptop is — as a co-worker put it, it’s at work or on his lap at home. And I can see the problem some people have with putting these extras in the core of a browser, especially when privacy is concerned.

Surely this won’t have the same use it has on mobile devices. But it finally makes the NSFW warnings superfluous.

Anyway, I enjoyed myself writing a demo showing wiki articles on places in your neighborhood.