February 4th, 2009
Have You Signed Up For Google Latitude Yet?
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I just signed up for Google Latitude and so should you.
It’s a cool new mobile social networking service from Google that displays the location of your GMail/ GChat friends on Google Map. Latitude lets you choose to let Google detect your location, set it yourself, hide it, or sign out of it.
Here’s the announcement on the Google Blog and the Google Mobile Blog and here’s the official launch video that explains how Latitude works –
Predictably, the announcement has set Techmeme on fire.
Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb wonders if Google has validated mobile social networking or killed all the competition.
Katherine Boehret at The Wall Street Journal tests Latitude for a week and finds that it’s fun but imprecise.
Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar thinks that not integrating Latitude with Orkut may make it difficult for Google to add photo, video and event functionality.
Scott Gilbertson at Wired Epicenter wonders why “Google is launching its own homegrown location-broadcasting service just weeks after killing off Dodgeball, a very similar location service Google let languish in private beta mode.”
MG Siegler at VentureBeat thinks that Latitude is “Google’s biggest attempt yet to unify its various properties into a proper social network of sorts.” Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land is equally excited about Latitude.
Associated Press says that there are no current plans to sell any advertising on Latitude, but that can change soon.
