In an effort to try to build some viral buzz for its Google Latitude product, Google is encouraging people to create a custom video and e-mail it to all their friends. (That’s right, e-mail. There is no embedding option). The video shows a bunch of Googlers spreading out across San Francisco with their Latitude-enabled mobile phones.
At the end of the video, their avatars spell a message, which can be customized to say whatever you want. I made a video that says “Crunch It.”
Latitude is Google’s geo-location service. It uses your phone’s GPS, Google Maps, and Gmail contacts to broadcast your location to your contacts (or hide your location from select contacts/bosses/girlfriends).
I have used google lattitude and till now this is the best utility i have got for my GPS phone
In an effort to try to build some viral buzz for its Google Latitude product, Google is encouraging people to create a custom video and e-mail it to all their friends. The video shows a bunch of Googlers spreading out across San Francisco with their Latitude-enabled mobile phones.
And where is it for the iphone?
its no point to have it for the iPhone, since it doesn’t multi task. For it to work you would have to keep the program open all the time.
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I disagree. It could work like brightkite does. Open the app, it updates your location. It is ok if it doesn’t show all your travels as long as you can as you arrive at places.
yes it could do that but not too many people would use it. It would be like having to open your mail program on your iPhone every time you wanted to see if you had any emails.
Well duh! that IS what you do if you turn off push notifications (which is useful to save battery). It actually helps to focus on your task and reduce distractions
Nice try Victor… All of a sudden not having multitasking is a “feature”? Sometime the Mac fanboys are really amusing.
Google latitude would be cool for a GPRS system integration, create a more personal approach on travel and sight seeing.
much better buzz and common sense if they would call the feature “Google Locator”. latitude only confuses. from what i understand G did not want to be seen as too over imposing on knowing too much of everything about everyone. that locator terminology must be very powerful, so powerful that big G wont use it. this app would gain better traction if they called it specifically what it is.
HumanLocator – got flesh?
There’s no embedding option because the underlying video is the same in all case (it’s an FLV file).
Google Spy u mean ?
Just another evilApp from those who don’t care about privacy.
Much better would be if GOOGLE would DELIVER A PRODUCT THAT DOES NOT SUCK.
Latitude sucks way too much to be useful. Here is what’s missing.
First, the updates are so infrequent.. that it’s useless. The phones I track on latitude, one got updated 3 days go the other one a few hours ago…
So rather then focusing on the video, how about making a service anyone can actually use. Right now as it stands it’s completely useless.
What is missing is a setting.. update intervall.. (as a service on android) that would turn on the gps every X minutes (setting).. take a reading then turn it off. U can’t leave it on because your battery will be gone in a few hours.
Second a way to request a current location by sending an im.. or some other type of request.
Until these things are implemented, LATITUDE sucks. As it stands it’s just waiting for some other service to come along and do it right… like youtube did to google video…
awesome
Hey I feel, I have to be more careful now
i love google latitude
Are they developing something for simpler mobiles too? Is it possible to gain traction and get business model with some sleek high end mobiles?
dodgeball was better
Apply dispo on iphone?
Just another evilApp from those who don’t care about privacy.
Weak sauce, no iPhone app.
Hoping that somehow they integrate with Brightkite!
Ya, Google Big Brother. If you haven’t seen EPIC 2014 you should check it out: http://idorosen...ols-master.html
Google Stalker
Why the hell do I want people to know where I am on a constant basis? And for that matter, why the hell should I care where other people are at any given time of the day? The only exception to this rule, is I would definitely like this to keep track of my children when they are young teenagers. Other than that, WTF?
Google exercised some “latitude” on this video as none of the beach locations in the movie are included on the map at the end.
There are so many reasons why you want latitude and benefits of it.. if you don’t get it just stfu.
It’s all good for as long as it spells fund & play, but what about business-class solutions? Are there any apps for team collaboration / location aware / mobile phones? Has anyone tried this http://www.wRadr.com – They just announced it (http://wradr.com/news/) but I can’t get an invite or find any info.
Google gets creepier and creepier by the day. Latitude, Streetview (or the ‘Shopping Channel for Burglars and Car Thieves’ as it is now known in some quarters). What next? Google Home CCTV? Google Electronic Tagging? Google No Escape?
Well it would be more popular if they’d do 2 things:
1. release the iPhone app. It’s not useful to know that I am either at the office or at home.
2. enhance the wifi locator precision. Apparently all barcelona locations are rounded down to 42º N 2º E, which makes us appear in the sea right in front of the coast.
Google always has its innovation.
I think the new iPhone can multitask now, so maybe this is coming to iPhone? Kevin- I agree Latitudes is a little creepy, but Boost mobile was campaigning on this type of service years ago. Clearly some people want it, and Google let’s you turn it off anyway. I’m not sure how much I’ll use it, but I like that I can.