Share your location with friends using Google Latitude
Google Mobile Maps has a new feature called Google Latitude. It gives you the opportunity to indicate your real location and show it to your favorite contacts using a mobile phone (using GPS). If you already have GPS installed on your phone, then you may already know this flashing blue dot on the map, which indicates your location, wherever you are. In essence, Google Locator gives you the opportunity to share this blue dot with anyone.
Google Locator is a mobile app. You can install it by downloading via mobile browser at google.com/latitude . With it, you will always be aware of where your friends and family are at the moment, 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 list of contacts. This list looks something like Twitter .
Do not want to shine your location? Then simply “hide” from unwanted contacts (in the properties of each contact there is a “hide from this friend” item), or manually specify your fake location. You can easily control your privacy.
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Google Locator is already running in 27 countries around the world on Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 smartphones. Support for "Locator" on Android-devices will appear in a week, later the application for the iPhone will be released, and even for some phones with Java support (J2ME). The corresponding iGoogle gadget also works in the USA, which shows the location and messages from Latitude.
Now "Locator" allows you to show your location only to your contacts in Gmail. And it doesn't work with Google Friend Connect yet.
(via Techcrunch )
A short video on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvRjrzGpG5Y
From myself I want to add that “Locator” has a very nice and user-friendly interface, switching between the card and the list of contacts is implemented by pressing just one button, and installing the application was so simple that even such a stupid brunette like me managed in two clicks :)
UPD:
As it turned out, the gadget for iGoogle works for residents of Russia. If your default is the Russian version of iGoogle, then follow this link: http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
Here is another useful topic: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/google/51230/
Google Locator is a mobile app. You can install it by downloading via mobile browser at google.com/latitude . With it, you will always be aware of where your friends and family are at the moment, 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 list of contacts. This list looks something like Twitter .
Do not want to shine your location? Then simply “hide” from unwanted contacts (in the properties of each contact there is a “hide from this friend” item), or manually specify your fake location. You can easily control your privacy.
')
Google Locator is already running in 27 countries around the world on Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 smartphones. Support for "Locator" on Android-devices will appear in a week, later the application for the iPhone will be released, and even for some phones with Java support (J2ME). The corresponding iGoogle gadget also works in the USA, which shows the location and messages from Latitude.
Now "Locator" allows you to show your location only to your contacts in Gmail. And it doesn't work with Google Friend Connect yet.
(via Techcrunch )
A short video on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvRjrzGpG5Y
From myself I want to add that “Locator” has a very nice and user-friendly interface, switching between the card and the list of contacts is implemented by pressing just one button, and installing the application was so simple that even such a stupid brunette like me managed in two clicks :)
UPD:
As it turned out, the gadget for iGoogle works for residents of Russia. If your default is the Russian version of iGoogle, then follow this link: http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
Here is another useful topic: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/google/51230/
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/51067/
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