by Brittney Barrett , World Market Media
Global positioning satellites have gone universal, and not just in the numbers sense. Foursquare, the GPS enabled application touted as a sort of Twitter 2.0, settled on new terrain on Friday when NASA astronaut, Douglas H. Wheelock used it to check- in to space. The gesture, which establishes Wheelock as the first person to use a location based service from space, appears emblematic of the direction that GPS technology is headed: everywhere. Foursquare, which employs GPS technology in order to most efficiently allow its 4 million-plus users to “check-in” to their current location, is just one of a number of companies expanding the application of GPS technology.
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