7 posts and columns on Google Latitude

Apple’s “Find My Friends” Location Feature Is More Like Glympse Than Foursquare

in Social on October 4, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

A new Apple iOS app called “Find My Friends” will allow users to temporarily share their locations on a map with specific users for a specified period.
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Google Latitude Adds Check-Ins (How 2009!)

in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.

Microsoft: Consumers Should Think Twice Before Broadcasting Location

in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT

In an interview, Microsoft’s chief privacy officer says consumers should double-check the connections in their social networks before sharing their location with so-called friends. Another area of concern is all those photos being geo-tagged by our phones.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…