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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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by John Jorgensen on November 12, 2008

Loopt is reported to have been valuated at $500 million by investment bank Allen & Co.
Loopt has hired Allen & Co., either for a sale or to raise another round of funding. Best guess points to the latter.
The company has raised $13.3 million to date.
Once the big social networks (MySpace & Facebook) decide to get into Loopt’s location-based social space, will they develop the technology in-house, or is Loopt an acquisition target down the road? They’re clearly doing something right.

by John Jorgensen on November 8, 2008

Mark Zuckerberg stated his version of Moore’s law at this week’s Web 2.0 summit: “The amount of information we disclose about ourselves will, like the number of transistors on a slice of silicon, double every year.”
Really? I’m already getting Twitter updates every time someone takes a shit.
Mark’s law sounds good on paper but I doubt this prediction will come true. We’ll hit an information plateau as a society as soon as location-based messaging apps become ubiquitous. Then, not only will I know when one of my friends takes a s—, but thanks to the wonders of GPS and WiF I’ll also know their precise physical location while they are taking a s—. Thanks technology!
Nicholas Carr got this one right. See his post below.

by John Jorgensen on November 7, 2008

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Geotagging support has come to FriendFeed.
A Google Maps thumbnail is now added to any post encoded with location info, such as those made from services like location-based social app Brightkite and GeoRSS.
If the locale info is there, the Gmaps thumbnail is generated and posted automatically.
Terribly boring example geotagged post here.
This is cool, but is potentially like, totally TMI (too much information). So you make a blog entry — do I need to know exactly from where you’re making it? Only if its relevant to the post. Otherwise it just clutters up my Friendfeed interface which is already busy as hell.