Tonight on the Profitable Social Media show we address how geotags on Twitter, GPS in your phone, and a myriad of software apps coming out this year will revolutionize the way local businesses interact with customers.

@24k will be our special guest. You may recognize Chris as a past guest. He’s been very active in the Las Vegas scene and one of the most connected people here.

We’ll be talking about many of the ways that marketing is changing through local access and

location aware apps.

Other guest will be stopping by to share their views on video sharing for small business, and local community networks.

Have You Been Getting Local?

Share your best tips, success stories, and plans for adding location aware or localized marketing to your business. Comments and questions below will be reviewed and addressed  during tonight’s show.

Listen to the show here

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The Twitter.com API (Application Programming Interface) as allow thousands of applications to interact with Twitter and helped to propel Twitter’s rapid growth.

Now Twitter Support for Open Source will allow programmers even more hooks into Twitter for faster development and new features.

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We’ve taken another step forward in the revolution. It’s called Google Buzz

There are all sorts of cool new technologies coming out this year.. location aware services, real time search results, and mobile processing that will blow away what we imagined possible just a short time ago.

However, I’m much more interested in the ideas that come from combining these in ways that make it easier for you and I to use the technology.

That’s why I”m excited about Google Buzz.

Tech pundits are discussing how it’s a lot like other products. Business pundits are discussion how one company will dominate in the market of the future.

Truth is, none of us know for sure. (though I would speculate that we will resist saying we are going to buzz about it .

Technology need to become boring before it’s truly useful – Clay Shirky

There are some cool features lurking in Google Buzz.. but best of all, it’s immediately useful. If you have a Google Account, you just click on the buzz selection under your inbox .. it’s as simple as that.

Here’s the Google Introduction video for earlier this week. I suggest watching it for the “gee whiz” effect and to think about the location and mobile implications.. then let me know how you might be using Google Buzz in a comment below. (include your Google Profile link. mine is http://www.google.com/profiles/wwhitlock)

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Jeremy Toeman of LIVEdigitally asked “Will Normal Folks Ever Use Twitter?”

His assumption that a rise unused Twitter accounts were people who had abandoned Twitter, not spam or data errors led him to the conclusion that Twitter should take his advice and add some feature to make status updates a game.

Might be something to that.. but the whole post seemed to old school to me.

The assumption appeared to be that Twitter users are just media consumers and some experts have to tailor the experience and tweet the show.

That’s how the corporations who run old media think.

Twitter is the greatest listening tool ever invented.. but it would be foolish to assume that we are getting a mass market here.

And that’s the point… Twitter users (not those looking at it or signing up for an empty account) are past the buzz of “why would I want to know what someone had for breakfast?” and now having real conversations with real people.

Regardless of what else Twitter or others do.. we’re not going to stop talking to our new friends.

Do we really need a point system or badges when we are having a conversation?

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One of the most popular questions we get about Twitter is What’s the next craze?

Here’s Twitter founder Jack Dorsey talking about Square. @Scobleizer called in One of the Top Startups to Watch for 2010

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