With technology growing with leaps and bounds everyday, mobile developers are hard at work, as well as trying to integrate our mobiles to reflect ourselves in the real world and the virtual one.

With Instant Messengers, one can chat with PC bound friends on the go. Mobiles are starting to adopt GPS chips now, to find our way through the busy streets of wherever. Checking a web site for a quick price check on a purchase is not uncommon at all these days. All these features are great and a real time saver, but what if you can tie all those features together to basically combine the real world with the virtual one?

Now imagine this: You leave your house to go to town for lunch, your mobile notifies you that an item your shopping for is on sale with in 3 blocks of you, and that your cousin is in diner 4 blocks away, by way of GPS awareness of your location. A friend on her work PC notices your about to pass by coffee shop, and IM’s you to pick her up a coffee, since your going to pass right by her place of work. After you drop off the coffee and having lunch with your cousin, you check your location on your mobile, to see that your best friend has geo tagged a movie theater for you to meet him at later, to catch the latest action flick. So you send out a sms to a few friends with the theaters location. On to the store for that item on sale now. While standing in line to buy that HDMI cable, your mobile alerts you the same item is cheaper online, even with shipping. Back it goes on the shelf, and time to head to the theater for the movie. You get the point.

Web 2.0, a conference in San Francisco, challenged mobile developers to do exactly this. Make our virtual lives and our real world lives come together like never before. The possibilities are virtually endless, and with advances in smartphone technology this should be happening now. When we look at what all we can do on PC’s and now smartphones, why not have them interconnected in a fashion to help us be “us”.

With social networking sites on the web, GPS mobiles, instant messengers on PC’s and mobiles, there’s so many ways of meshing virtual and real worlds, and having them work for us, just like it was intended. Tools to make our lives better, easier, and a lot more fun. I say hurry up developers, I was ready for this yesterday.