Google’s Attempt At Location Based Mobile Social Networking

by Jason Wilk on February 4, 2009

  • Meet Google Latitude, Google’s attempt at mobile social networking, giving you the ability to see where your friends are and what they are doing at any time (see Loopt). I’ve yet to adopt to location-based mobile social networking myself, as it’s time consuming and at the end of the day, I reallly don’t need to see a point on a map where my buddies are.  How does everyone else feel about it?

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  • Hova
    I agree, I think Loopt is stupid. There is no way they will sell that company for $500M. I hate location based stuff.
  • el stone
    stupid. just like Loopt- cool idea, but really not practical at all. Same with UrbanSpoon, although I may be the only one who thinks that...
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