Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers.
Now, WordPress is getting into the game, by letting bloggers that host their sites on WordPress.com automatically attach their location to individual blog posts. Doing so will also make your post searchable by location, so other users can find blog posts from specific places.
WordPress says that there’s more to come in the way of location features. In a blog post, the company writes, “we’ll gradually roll out more geotagging features, such as showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came from.”
Although maybe not as likely to spawn offline networking in the real-time way that Twitter and Foursquare can (you still have to write a blog post versus a tweet), attaching location could have interesting implications for searching out blog posts in a specific area, especially when news breaks there. Profiles can also be tagged, so if you want to find other WordPress users in your area, you can.