Imagine being in an unfamiliar city. As you move around, your cell phone beeps, and delivers stories from local media outlets about places or events physically close to you. You could select certain types of stories you're receptive to getting, like restaurant reviews, crime stories, real estate, etc. Something like this is already happening in Canada: http://ow.ly/10jvj
Metro, a free daily, partnered with Foursquare, a location-based social networking software that you use on your cell phone.
I think in the relatively near future all news outlets will offer this service. It shouldn't be hard to program it into the content management systems we use. I wonder if standards will be reached on which software subscribers would use to get the content. Will everyone adopt some augmented reality app? Will it be open source with an API so a variety of Foursquare-like apps can be used?
Shouldn't be too hard to deliver advertising along with the content... I bet start-ups will just syndicate AP copy or other wire copy and beat the traditional media companies to the punch, again.
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