Google Latitude: Seeing Where Your Friends are in Real Time
Social Networking meets Location Based Service : Latitude.
Latitude, built on the Google Maps API, allows you to share your location with friends while also seeing their location — all in real time, without a manual update.

The mobile application is currently not available on the iPhone and is only supported by Google’s Android as well as Blackberry, Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile.
Will this product take hold? Well, privacy is essentially becoming ephemeral. Between Latitude and Facebook, your “friends” will know a bit too much about you (every minute of the day) — but that is not the underlying concern as they are your “friends.”
But, this information in the wrong hands is a stalkers dream come true. We need to be weary of these services. I completely support their release into the market, however, this (along with numerous other social networking services) is not something that can be passively installed. One needs to be conscious of what information they are sharing with not only their friends, but the world. I foresee a bit of resistance with the adoption of Google’s new service.
Would you use it?
[Via PSFK]
Tags: Google, Google Maps, Latitude, Location Based Service, Maps
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