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"OK, so you're a Foursquare user and you're the &amp;quot;Mayor of Starbucks&amp;quot; in Hackensack... Whatever!\r\n\r\nMaybe you use Gowalla and you've just traded a virtual 'kettle' for a virtual 'bowl of noodles' at the Sewage Farm in Cleckheaton... Who cares?\r\n\r\nWouldn't it be more fun searching for some real treasure?\u00A0 Geocaching could be the answer.\r\n\r\nLocation-based mobile games are hot right now.\u00A0 Foursquare, Gowalla and others encourage you to &amp;quot;check in&amp;quot; at various locations using smartphone apps in order to earn points or trade tokens.\r\n\r\nHowever, when the novelty of wearing imaginary Foursquare mayoral chains whilst ordering your skinny latte wears off, what are you going to do?\u00A0 When you're really hungry, but those virtual noodles from Gowalla fail to satisfy your appetite, where do you look?\r\n\r\nWouldn't it be great if you could search the world around you looking for real hidden artefacts?\u00A0 With Geocaching you can do just that.\u00A0 It'd be cool if Foursquare, Gowalla or one of the other location games could build this in to their apps.\r\n\r\nLike, Foursquare, Gowalla and the current crop of location based games, it's all about being mobile and making the most of the GPS in your phone or Sat Nav device to find hidden items.\u00A0 The difference is, these items are for real...\u00A0 and they're all around you!\r\n\r\nGeocaching is a global phenomena that's been steadily gaining popularity since its launch in 2000.\u00A0 In almost ten years, over 3 million participants have hidden and searched for almost a million items around the globe.\u00A0 What's more, they're all waiting to be found...\u00A0 by you.\r\n\r\nEven better, if you're an iPhone user, there's an app from Geocaching.com, the largest GPS cache hunt site, to make it even easier.\u00A0 Using the app you can search for hidden treasures near to your current position and navigate towards them.\r\n\r\nWhen you get to 'ground zero' you hunt around for the hidden 'cache' which can be anything from the size of a coin to a sandwich box.\u00A0 If you find it, sign the paper log inside it and there may also be a few items inside to trade with other geocaching fans.\r\n\r\nUsing the app or the Geocaching website, you can provide updates regarding your find before moving onto the next one.\u00A0 What the app and the site currently lack is any integration with social networks, which might be just the thing a Foursquare or a Gowalla could introduce to the equation.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, there's a health warning that goes with geocaching.\u00A0 People have been questioned by the police for snooping around suspiciously looking for hidden booty, so if you're interested in geocaching, read up on the do's and don'ts on geocaching.com or the wiki, before getting started."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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