Google Latitude: Ready to Tell Your Friends (and Google) Where You Are?
ReadWriteWeb — Where you are is as important as what you're looking for. That's why more and more services are looking to location as a filter for providing relevant information when and where we need it. So it only makes sense that Google - a company known for its ability to deliver relevant information - get into the location-aware app game. Today, they jumped in with both feet by releasing Google Latitude, a way to keep track of your friends' current whereabouts - and let Google have a view into your nomadic or sedentary habits. Sponsor ...

Google Maps Now has a Location-Aware Feature, called Latitude
Search Engine Journal — The Official Google Blog has just put out an announcement regarding the new feature of Google Maps called Latitude. Although Google Maps Latitude was intended primarily for mobile devices since it uses GPS, you can also use it on your PC as an iGoogle gadget.  Google Maps Latitude is an opt-in service which will allow you to find out the approximate location of your friends or family members, provided that they have opted to share their location with you.  It’s a pretty useful service for parents and I could just imagine how their ...

Google Latitude launches; Social networking meets maps
Between the Lines — ... l. And more importantly, Google has done the social networking thing on its own terms and from a position of strength (Maps, see Google Mobile blog ). Link ...

Google Latitude, Google se mete de lleno en la geolocalización
Celularis — Google ha liberado la primera versión de Google Latitude, una herramienta de mapas que permite el seguimiento automático de amigos y contactos en tiempo real, utilizando una combinación de GPS y WiFi para determinar la ubicación. Así, el sistema permite encontrar contactos en el mapa y, al seleccionarlos, permite enviarles un mensaje de texto, un correo electrónico o con hacerles una llamada telefónica. De esta forma Google se mete de lleno en el negocio de los ...

Know Where Others Are With Google Latitude
Google Blogoscoped — ... Using just the iGoogle widget without further plugins, you’ll need to update your location manually by entering e.g. your city and country. If you run Google Latitude on your phone (available in 27 countries so far, Google says, allowing you to “call, SMS, IM, or email each other within the app”), Google offers you to have your coordinates be updated automatically. And even if you’re on the computer, Google offers you to download their Gears plugin which they say uses wireless signals to determine your computer’s location. When Latitude tried to ...

Share Your Location (Or Lie About It) With Google Latitude
Mashable! — ... For a list of supported phones, check here. Believe it or not, the iPhone and iPod Touch are in the “coming soon” category, which is a big minus for Google. You can also visit google.com/latitude on your desktop and install the Latitude iGoogle gadget, which lets you share your location from your desktop computer. As far as supported countries go, currently there are 27 of them, and mine (Croatia) unfortunately isn’t one of them; Google promises to add support for more countries soon. Check out ...

Locate friends with Google Latitude on your Smart Phone or Desktop PC
D' Technology Weblog — ... More info:  Google LatLong Blog

Find Your Friends with Google Latitude
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... to participate, and can opt in if they wish. Google's Talk product is built into Latitude, so friends can update status messages and profile photos wherever they are. Latitude also lets users send SMS, IM, or email messages to one another from within the application. Users will need to download the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile to use Latitude. To start, it will work with Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile phones. Google hopes to support the iPhone soon. more info at Google ...

Google already has your data. Now it knows where you are.
TechBlog — ... Latitude lets you change the settings on a friend-by-friend basis. So for each person, you can choose to share your best available location or your city-level location, or you can hide. Everything is under your control and, of course, you can sign out of Latitude at any time. . . . The company has put together a video tutorial that shows how these settings work. Google Latitude works by installing components on your desktop or notebook computer, or on a smartphone. Right now, the mobile app is available for Android, BlackBerry, Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile phones. It's not ...

New Google Service Lets You Stalk, Er, Find Your Friends
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , to the newest version of its Maps for Mobile product. GPS and location-based services such as Google Latitude are only going to grow as GPS chips are added to more and more devices. The idea is a good one, and can be used for networking and finding friends when out in the world. In order to use ...

New Google Maps Mobile Includes Location-Sharing “Latitude”
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... Talk and e-mail applications so you can quickly get in touch with people after seeing where they are on the map. Everything is opt-in, so you needn’t worry about ne’er-do-wells learning of your wherabouts. Now, if other services like Twitter and even Facebook could plug into this system, then we would have something truly awesome - but for now, this is a great start. Head to google.com/latitude on either your desktop or mobile browser to get started. [via Official Google Mobile Blog] Related News from IntoMobile: ...

Google Maps’ new Latitude feature lets you easily locate your friends
Unwired View — ... Windows Mobile handsets. Support for Apple’s iPhone will be added later this year. What’s cool is that you can use Latitude even when you don’t have a mobile phone around: as long as you have a PC or a laptop, you can access the feature through iGoogle. To get Google Latitude on your phone or on your computer, you must visit this link. Here’s a video explanation of how Latitude works: Via Google Mobile Blog Similar Posts: Google makes mobile search ...

Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location
Wired: Epicenter — ... Latitude service for mobile devices. Google Latitude broadcasts your location from your mobile phone, letting your friends know where you are and allowing you to keep tabs on them. Latitude shares your current location with your friends by using Google Maps’ My Location feature. Like the iPhone’s built-in geo tools, My Location uses the signals from nearby cellphone towers to plot your whereabouts (but, read on, this isn't iPhone ready yet). Interestingly, Google is launching its own homegrown location-broadcasting service just weeks after killing off ...

Google Latitude launches, lets you track your friends
Obsessable News Feed — ... Conversations: Official Google Blog: See where your friends are with Google Latitude [googleblog.blogspot.com] ...

Google's Latitude Adds Location-Sharing to Mobile Phones
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... was launched as a Google Maps for Mobile (Symbian, Blackberry, Android, WinMo; the iPhone and iPod Touch will be coming soon) and as an iGoogle widget. It will allow you to share your location with a set group of friends. You can determine the level of your location-sharing and easily turn it off. It's a simple but effective tool. This is the beginning of the age of continuous location-sharing and Google is helping to validate the market (as have ...

Google Latitude added to Maps, included in RC33
Android Authority — ... on the go and keep in touch by updating your status message, via Gmail or just simple SMS if that’s your thing. Google have taken a leaf out of Facebook’s grand design and built in some very fine grained privacy settings that allow you to control what kind of information is available to each person you are connected with. Consider what can happen when developers start producing mash ups of Latitude for Facebook and the like; this tool appears to have boundless potential! [Via: Google Mobile Blog ] Popularity: 1% [ ...

Google Latitude for Mobile
dailywireless.org — Google today announced the release of Latitude. Google Latitude lets users share their locations and is built into Google Maps for Mobile and iGoogle, which lets users create a customized home page. ...

Google Latitude: Share Your Locations with Friends
Google Operating System — ... "How often do you find yourself wondering where your friends are and what they're up to? It's a pretty central question to our daily social lives, and it's precisely the question you can now answer using Google Latitude," explains Google's blog. ...

T-Mobile G1's RC33 update includes Google Latitude
Engadget Mobile — ... Keeping frighteningly close tabs on the current locations of your friends, enemies, ex-lovers, bookies, and dealers is one of the hotter trends in the mobile space these days with products like Loopt, Whrrl, and Helio's Buddy Beacon making ...

T-Mobile G1's RC33 update includes Google Latitude
Engadget — ... Keeping frighteningly close tabs on the current locations of your friends, enemies, ex-lovers, bookies, and dealers is one of the hotter trends in the mobile space these days with products like Loopt, Whrrl, and Helio's Buddy Beacon making ...

Google Latitude: Will it Kill your Phone’s Battery? [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — Maybe I’m just put off since I can’t play with Google Latitude like everyone else. The new location sharing service looks awesome to me, but it’s not yet supported on the iPhone. For now, I’m simply testing it in iGoogle on my laptops and I’ve shared my general location (shown) with a long-time jkOTR reader and my exact location with James. While there’s a valid case to be made for how location sharing with Google has privacy implications, I’m not that concerned. You can hide your location at any time, and you get to pick and choose which of your contacts can see where you are. Even better: you can define how ...

Google Latitude: Will it Kill your Phone’s Battery?
jkOnTheRun — ... Maybe I’m just put off since I can’t play with Google Latitude like everyone else. The new location sharing service looks awesome to me, but it’s not yet supported on the iPhone. For now, I’m simply testing it in iGoogle on my laptops and I’ve shared my general location (shown) with a long-time jkOTR reader and my exact location with James. ...

Google Unveils 'Latitude' Location Sharing
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Maps called Latitude that lets users share location data with friends. "Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device," said Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering on Google's mobile team, in a blog post . "It's also an iGoogle gadget on your computer. Once you've opted in to Latitude, you can see the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. So now you can do things like see if your spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy is in town for the weekend, or take comfort in ...

Google Gets into the Mobile Social Game, Launches Lattitude
BIA/Kelsey Blog — Google today announced the launch of it’s mobile social networking tool Latitude. This will be a component of Google Maps for Mobile and will work within the mapping applications (web apps & installed) of iPhones, Blackberrys and Symbian and Windows Mobile based devices. The feature will allow users to locate friends on a map and communicate with them, within the context of physical location or proximity. The tool can be accessed on mobile devices or on Google’s personalized home page, iGoogle. Users that are signed ...

Google gets into the share-where business
GMSV — Being of the hermit persuasion, I’m not the target market for Google’s latest launch o’ the day, but if you enjoy maintaining a high public profile in your social circle, you may be. The new service is called Latitude , and it ...

Track your friends with the new Google Latitude for Google Maps for Mobile
Boy Genius Report — Fan of Google Maps? Use it a lot on your cell phones? Maybe you use Loopt to stay in touch with friends and family and check out what they’re up to and where they are? Well, starting today, Google’s new Latitude feature looks to steal their lunch. Google not only lets you see yourself on the map, but your friends as well (assuming they accept your invitation and opt-in to sharing their location with you). Google Maps for mobile with Latitude is available now for Android (it’s in the current RC33 update that’s being rolled out), Blackberry, ...

With Latitude, Google Fires Another Shot at Mobile Operators [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , a nifty little application for your smartphone (as long as it’s not an iPhone) that lets your friends locate you, and you them, on a map. It reminds me of that great Boost Mobile commercial, the one with the tagline, Where you at?! As the Google Mobile blog explains: ...

Stalk Your Friends with Google’s Latitude
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Latitude mobile app, you can access the GPS information in your participating friends’ phones. And lest you think Google is making it hard for you to keep tabs on your friends’ every move, they’re incorporating a boat load of other popular products: ...

Google Latitude Spurs Privacy Backlash
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Google's new Latitude location sharing service "could be a gift to stalkers, prying employers, jealous partners and obsessive friends," Privacy International warned on Thursday. Google introduced Latitude on Wednesday. It's a new Google Maps feature that lets users share location data with friends, using either a mobile phone or Google Gears-equipped computer. Google knows well that it has a privacy problem, exemplified by its quixotic campaign last summer to avoid adding a link on its home page to its privacy policy. It uses sensitive data to make its products better and to figure out how to personalize ads ...

Google Latitude Spurs Privacy Backlash
TechWeb — Google's new Latitude location-sharing service "could be a gift to stalkers, prying employers, jealous partners, and obsessive friends," Privacy International warned Thursday. Google introduced Latitude on Wednesday. It's a new Google Maps feature that lets users share location data with friends, using either a mobile phone or Google Gears-equipped computer. Google knows well that it has a privacy problem, exemplified by its quixotic campaign last summer to avoid adding a link on its home page to its privacy policy. It uses sensitive data to make its products better and to figure out how to personalize ads ...

Following iPhone's Lead, Google Rolls Out Location Sharing Service
DailyTech Blog Feed — Google's new location software allows users to opt to allow people to follow their every footstep -- will it backfire? The iPhone's App store created a cultural phenomenon that many of its competitors tried to emulate. Among the items sold at the store, new location-tracking software was among the most important, and most controversial. New software allowed for GPS-enabled tracking with socially networked users being able to see where their friends were at all times. If that doesn't strike you as a bit wild, some services even allowed users to opt to allow strangers at locations like bars or clubs to view your name, dating status, and a blurb of personal ...

Privacy Group: Google Latitude Could Track Unsuspecting Users
The Channel Wire — One day after Google released Google Latitude, a new feature for Google Maps on mobile devices that lets users track and find their friends and family from a smartphone, laptop or desktop computer, a privacy group has come forward to criticize the application, saying it can endanger user privacy. Privacy International, a London-based advocacy group, said Latitude can be used to track unsuspecting users. "Latitude appears to present an immediate privacy threat," said Privacy International Thursday. "The danger arises when a second party can gain physical access to a user's phone and enables Latitude without the owner's knowledge." The privacy ...

Privacy Group: Google Latitude Could Track Unsuspecting Users
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — One day after Google released Google Latitude, a new feature for Google Maps on mobile devices that lets users track and find their friends and family from a smartphone, laptop or desktop computer, a privacy group has come forward to criticize the application, saying it can endanger user privacy. Privacy International, a London-based advocacy group, said Latitude can be used to track unsuspecting users. "Latitude appears to present an immediate privacy threat," said Privacy International Thursday. "The danger arises when a second party can gain physical access to a user's phone and enables Latitude without the owner's knowledge." The privacy ...

Claim: Google Latitude is dangerous, a tool for the sinister
TG Daily - All News — Chicago (IL) - Only about 48 hours have passed since Google launched Google Latitude , a feature designed for Google Maps on mobile devices which allows users to find and track their family and friends via a laptop, smartphone, or desktop computer. Since then a privacy group has spoken out with great criticism of the application, claiming it's dangerous, and could leave users vulnerable. The application causing this concern launched on Wednesday. By allowing users the ability to identify the location on a map of any Google Latitude-enabled device -- and therefore person -- one could "see if [their] spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy ...

Weekly Wrapup: Google Latitude, Facebook Sentiment Engine, The Goverati, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... Tell Your Friends (and Google) Where You Are? Where you are is as important as what you're looking for. That's why more and more services are looking to location as a filter for providing relevant information when and where we need it. So it only makes sense that Google - a company known for its ability to deliver relevant information - get into the location-aware app game. This week, they jumped in with both feet by releasing Google Latitude, a way to keep track of your friends' current whereabouts - and let Google have a view into your nomadic ...

TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
BIA/Kelsey Blog — Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Yell CEO Sees Faintest Glimmer at End of Tunnel Last week, Yell Group issued its nine-month earnings report (the company’s financial year ends March 31) and most of the news was sobering. Organic growth is expected to be in the negative double digits in its fourth quarter, and small-business advertisers are paralyzed by uncertainty over how long the downturn will last and how bad it will get. Still, company leaders say first-quarter canvasses so far suggest a leveling off in the rate of ...

You Don't Need To Know Where This Rant Was Written
louisgray.com — ... Google is obviously making a very big move into location-based services. They recently launched Latitude, their location sharing service. Their are other location sharing services as well. ...

First Look: IRL Connect Brings Facebook and Twitter to Google Maps [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Once they’re signed in, the problem isn’t necessarily corrected, either. That’s because IRL Connect doesn’t currently offer real-time Wi-Fi, GPS, or cell ID positioning. Instead, it forces a user to actively enforce locations. Where Google Latitude publicizes and plots your location from your phone (or PC) using signals from nearby cell-phone towers, IRL first locates a user’s position through his IP address. Once logged-in, he can manually position himself by ...

ATT Family Tracking — & More
dailywireless.org — AT&T is now offering a new tracking service called FamilyMaps that allows people to track the location of any cell phone on AT&T’s network from a mobile phone or PC. The person being tracked receives a text message informing him or her that he or she is being watched. The service periodically informs the tracked ...