The absence of location & a merge of presence

Absence. The state of being away from a place or a person. The non-existence or lack of.

If we take 'programming' as a technological entity, I feel that in essence we are programming our absence of location and are causing, and have indeed caused a merge of presence.

The likes of email, the mobile phone and the Internet obviously allow us to be present without being predominantly locative to the source. We are able to access services, communicate and interact with anyone or anything around the world. I find this interesting, there is always the sense of thinking, 'where would be be without mobile devices'; because of our reliance of them, well the answer is, '...anywhere we want!' (surely?).

Looking at technology itself as location, the launch of the iphone and of course other similar mobile-browser technologies has caused an absence, and lack of the usual standardized platforms (such as a PC browser) - which has caused the internet to become portable. We do not need to be present at a physical workstation, instead the portal to the web is mobile.

GPS and its integration of mobile means that we don't actually need to know where we are either- the technology finds us! Take Sat Nav's, is there an element of control here? and an element of reliance almost?

This stuff has become old news, but what is interesting is the rise in need to merge the gap between mobile and a standard browser portal. Sites such as http://mologogo.com/ and http://bliin.com/ rely on an internet technology to communicate on the move, but however they also create a real-time, social, community online that relies on mobility...