Comments on: Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:05:13 +0000

But now they can also target you with the location of emails your are receiving from others.

By: Link-Tipps der letzten Zeit | Leander Wattig

Link-Tipps der letzten Zeit | Leander Wattig — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:01:00 +0000

[...] Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email [...]

By: Przegląd internetu, 15 lutego 2009 r. | Łukasz Prokulski

Przegląd internetu, 15 lutego 2009 r. | Łukasz Prokulski — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:19:59 +0000

[...] Druga zmiana to możliwość dodania do stopki maila lokalizacji, z jakiej został ten mail wysłany – więcej na TechCrunch.com. [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:16:59 +0000

Neat but I'm not seeing how useful this is. I guess it does exactly what it's supposed to and nothing more. Maybe if all your friends are savvy international travelers. I'd check justaskgemalto to verify there aren't any security risks though.

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Vince’s LifeStream » Blog Archive » My LifeStream For 2009-02-11 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:38:07 +0000

[...] Posted an item on Generic. location awareness [...]

By: Yet Another Way for Gmail to Track You Down | MMM

Yet Another Way for Gmail to Track You Down | MMM — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:30:48 +0000

[...] newest feature from Gmail Labs lets you add your location to the [...]

By: ScottE

ScottE — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:41:53 +0000

> I could reproduce this functionality in like 10 minutes. cheap.

So do it. Nobody is stopping you! The timer starts now…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:24:37 +0000

MGZ,

That still doesn’t make you able to set things in default Android apps like Calendar, Gmail ect…

This is just for displaying Google maps.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:19:18 +0000

That is fascinating. Truly interesting, especially the location-specific Gears application.

By: SunnyBzDv

SunnyBzDv — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:44:53 +0000

Getting your tech updates at TC is fine. But this item does not merit a big write-up.
Inserting approximate geo triangulated by sniffing IP addr — I mean, this is hardly news-worthy in 2009. As for Google’s ability to serve local ads, they have been inserting geo-targeted ads (based on the same sniffer tech) in Gmail for quite sometime, so this is not going to aid/enhance GOOG’s ability to insert local ads.

By: Tomer Cohen

Tomer Cohen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:37:53 +0000

It would be nice if they’ll suggest a standard mail header for geolocation. This will give another dimension to email messages, much like how it help us to identify the location pictures are taken using EXIF.

By: Den

Den — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:09:21 +0000

Twitter Location: http://twitloc.linkstore.ru does the same for Twitter

By: Ob Session

Ob Session — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:36:40 +0000

“Google appears to have a new obsession with knowing and broadcasting your current location.”

-> Wake up, dude. Google has an OLD obsession with knowing EVERYTHING about you.

By: Melvin M. Tercan

Melvin M. Tercan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:34:26 +0000

Why not? It’s updates like these that keeps me hooked on TC.

By: MGZ

MGZ — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:28:20 +0000

Relax, just use google.loader.ClientLocation. I’m sure that’s all they’re doing here. If you’re using any google ajax APIs, it’s available automatically.

By: PostalLocator.com

PostalLocator.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:12:55 +0000

whom ever creates the greatest location aware network for consumers and businesses will win the search game on mobile and the internet.

MailboxLocator – send yourself

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:33:15 +0000

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By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:21:27 +0000

Interesting point, although Google can (theoretically) already use your public IP address to do this. It doesn’t need to detect it in the body of messages you send.

By: Farhan Memon

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:16:29 +0000

I agree with Dave. The more you can localize advertising information the more likely it is that users will click on the ad.

By: גוגל-ספרה » אבל איפה אתה?

גוגל-ספרה » אבל איפה אתה? — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:15:07 +0000

[...] יציע לך לאשר לו להפעיל את ה Google Gears אם קיים אצלך על מנת לנסות [...]

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:13:14 +0000

I think that this is a great feature but am curious if it will be able to workwhen you are using Gmail on your mobile. Either way Google has added yet another shinny whistle to Gmail. With all of Gmail’s great features I am surprised that it has taken this long for Gmail to overtake Hotmail as Informationweek pointed out yesterday.

By: Ezra 'Doggson' Olubi

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:07:14 +0000

i’ll test the feature for the fun of it, and then stop using it.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:59:18 +0000

So they can put advertising in gmail targeted to your or the sender’s location. Google sees that there is going to be a huge number of advertisers that aren’t advertising today because they can’t target precise locations with their ads. Think about the huge amount of dollars spent for location-based advertising – billboards, flyers, etc.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:55:04 +0000

What the sense in this feature?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:50:17 +0000

Yes, it’s open source, but by giving handset vendors complete control over the distribution and not having hooks for people outside the loop, it would be like MS giving complete control to compaq or X company.

So think of it in that way against the FOSS argument.

I’m sure this was all planned in a board room somewhere in northern cali, but that’s what it boils down to.