Google Latitude – Magic or Menace?

Friday, February 27. 2009 | 19:26 | von Julie Nathan

A couple weeks back, during my morning caffeine fix cum Reader blog headline scroll, I read about Google Latitude. And thought: „woo hoo – finally!“ Followed up by more joy: Google was enabling the service across 26 countries, it would work on the mobile or the desktop and there would be the ability to specify privacy preferences at multiple levels and in multiple ways. Sounding good. In the past, I’ve been excited to read about services like Dodgeball (recently killed by Google) and Loopt (only available in the US), similar services tying geo targetting capabilities to social networks. A couple German near-equivalents have sparked a lot of interest for me as well – Qiro and Aka-Aki. But because of the walled-garden approach, more »