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With the iPhone SDK released, people have started thinking expansively about ways that mobile software can change the way we interact with the world. www.ReadWriteWeb.com posted an article today describing 12 future software application concepts for your iPhone. The most interesting among them is “Reality Tagging” using the iPhone. Photos taken on the iPhone could be automatically geotagged using the iPhone’s location tracking functionality and tagged with comments. Future visitors to that location could then pull up photos and comments related specifically to that location. Cool stuff.

For the full list of 12 iPhone software concepts, check out the full article at ReadWriteWeb. Excerpt after the jump:

12 Future Apps For Your iPhone - ReadWriteWeb:

1. Reality Tagging

Tagging reality is not new, but will be much better done with iPhone. Here’s how it will work. You take a picture of
a landmark, then comment and add tags. The phone will automatically geo-tag it and send the picture to a photo sharing service on the Web. Now anyone
in the world can find your picture by exact geo location, or by its tags. Reality tagging will be like a distributed Google Earth,
but for pictures.

2. People Tagging

Even better than tagging landmarks, you will be able to use iPhone to tag people. You can already take a picture
and assign it to a contact. It is just a matter of time before these pictures will available to a search engine.
Doing it on the phone will be quick and fun. In a couple of years the problem that we described in this post will go away.

3. Reality Recognition

Reality recognition will be fueled by reality tagging and advanced image recognition. Imagine going on a hike and coming
across a tree that you have not seen before. You will point iPhone at the tree and
instantly a Wikipedia page about it will load. Or imagine that it’s your first time in New York City. You point an iPhone at
the Chrysler building (because you think that it is the Empire State Building) and again information about the landmark will
be paged to your iPhone.