Show your location to friends with Google Latitude

    The service "Google Maps Google" has a new feature called "Google Latitude" ("Google Latitude"). It gives you the opportunity to indicate your real location and show it to your selected contacts using your mobile phone (using GPS). If GPS is already installed on your phone, then you may already be familiar with this flashing blue dot on the map, which indicates your location, wherever you are. In fact, Google Latitude gives you the opportunity to “share” this blue dot with anyone.

    Google latitude

    Google Latitude is a mobile application. You can install it by downloading via a mobile browser at google.com/latitude. With it, you will always be aware of where your friends and relatives are currently located, and right from this application you can call them, send an instant message or email. Each contact to which you have opened access to your profile is indicated as an icon or avatar on the map, as well as in the contact list. This list looks something like Twitter .

    Do not want to shine your location? Then just “hide” from unwanted contacts (in the properties of each contact there is an item “hide from this friend”), or manually indicate your false location. You can easily control your privacy.

    Google Latitude already works in 27 countries on Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 smartphones. Support for Locator on Android devices will appear in a week, and later an application for the iPhone, and even for some phones with Java (J2ME) support, will be released. The United States also runs the corresponding iGoogle gadget, which shows the location and messages from Latitude.

    Now Latitude allows you to show your location only to your contacts in Gmail. And he is not working with Google Friend Connect yet.

    (via Techcrunch )

    A short video on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvRjrzGpG5Y

    I want to add on my own that Lokator has a very nice and convenient interface, switching between the map and the contact list is realized by pressing just one button, and the application installation turned out to be so simple that even such a stupid brunette like me managed in two clicks :)

    UPD:
    As it turned out, the gadget for iGoogle also works for residents of Russia. If you have the default Russian version of iGoogle, then follow this link: http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

    Here is another useful topic topic: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/google/ 51230 /


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