This project explores - using a holistic approach - the creation of a new social media application, which main function is going to power users to leave their experience as a digital footprint - “a word” - in a location for other users to interact - or for personal use. What differentiates “aword” is that users have to be near that location in order to fully interact with that word. Existing and upcoming geolocation services provided a powerful framework for the project, as they enable the creation of a digital map (world) with data and information for people to explore and discover. The projects aimed in creating an innovative social media platform, where people should have access into a real-time stream of information pinpointed in a map. As a result, data and information will not get lost in the digital sea, but it will be accessible when most needed.