Google Latitude Lets You Share Your Location With Your Friends on Google Map – Video Within

Latitude is a New Application from Google. Now, you can actually share your location anywhere in the world (at this moment, 27 countries) with your friends or family members. This is made possible if you are using the latest Google Map Mobile software. It using your phone signal to approximate your location. So now you can do things like see if your spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy is in town for the weekend, or take comfort in knowing that a loved one’s flight landed safely, despite bad weather.

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Although Latitude might sounds like intruding your privacy, it has a stream of privacy checklist for you so that you can control what information your friends can see. Also, Google will only register the last location.

If you don’t have a mobile device with Google Map, you can also use iGoogle on your desktop to track your friends. Quite easy to use.

Here’s a short video on Google Latitude

According to Google, Latitude is available on Blackberry, S60, and Windows Mobile, and will be available on Android in the next few days. We expect it will be coming to the iPhone, through Google Mobile App, very soon.

Currently, only 27 countries are supported (Singapore is NOT in it).

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Languages supported:

Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.

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Click Here to View the Privacy Video if you are not comfortable with Google Latitude

So, ready for Google Latitude?

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Note: If you are on your mobile browser, you can download the application. If you are on your desktop, you can activate Latitude through iGoogle Gadgets.

Read all about Google Latitude Here