It’s been around for a while on Crackberry, but Latitude has recently hit the Google Phone. Latitude is a Google Maps function which shares your location with your approved friends. Now, when I hit the map function on my phone I can see other people’s locations if they have shared them with me. I only set it up properly last night, but now in Glorious 3G you can see where I am at any given moment. Well, not quite because I think I have to specifically go into Maps to update it. So you can see where I was when I last went into Maps. Exciting stuff.
Sooooo, if you are one of the select many who has my “real” email address and one of the geeky few who has a phone with Latitude on it, you too can stalk me! I can’t think of many situations where it might actually be “useful” except when arranging to meet someone in a public place like a park or square. It would have been great to have it a few days ago when a few of us went for a picnic. Directions like “past the cafe, third tree on the right” are consigned to the annals of history. Hmm.
Sounds terrifying, if I’m honest. I try not to give out my actual exact location, most of the time.
Normally I stick to just… Well, just my real name, the town I live in, my date of birth, my place of work, the names of my wife and daughter and other such unimportant things.
Hmm. Really haven’t got the hang of this whole anonymity thing, have I…
I think your non-anonymity is a clever rouse. You picked a very plausible name and “background” out of thin air.
The most satisfactory upgrade that Apple put into the latest operating system for the iPhone is the one which lets you know where you iPhone is (if you’ve left it behind somewhere.)
If it has been stolen, you can send the new “owner” a message before remotely shutting the phone down for good.
Personally, I would like to have the facility to remotely detonate it the first time the new “owner” tries to make a call on it.