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	Google Maps Finds Your Nearby Friends with Latitude

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2-4-2009 11:11 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b8f23ada-a1b1-47d6-877d-ffa3ce3860aa/33F64F60-F7C6-42FF-92A9-403DEAF8E608/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude" href="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude"><H1><A href="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude">Google Maps Finds Your Nearby Friends with Latitude</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/859BF152-B0F1-4EEE-988C-76CADDF85873" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q-Oq-9enE-k&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" class="left gawkerVideo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude"><P><A href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/google-maps/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged GOOGLE MAPS" class="autolink">Google Maps</A> has added a friend-finding, location-aware feature for mobile phones and iGoogle that tells selected friends and contacts where you are, updates through Google Talk, and claims lots of privacy features.</p> <P>Head to <CODE><A href="http://google.com/latitude">google.com/latitude</A></CODE> from your Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, or Windows Mobile phone, or in your desktop browser, to activate Latitude (iPhone support is on the way, the big G says). Both mobile phones running the Latitude app and browser with Google Gears installed can automatically update your location using Maps' My Location feature, but you can set up, contact-by-contact, who sees your live updates, who doesn't, and even set up status messages for individuals—so, perhaps, the boss only sees that you're at your desk, nowhere else, not even thinking about sneaking out for coffee.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5146006/google-maps-finds-your-nearby-friends-with-latitude">Check out an overview of how Latitude works, and its privacy features, in this video:</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/33F64F60-F7C6-42FF-92A9-403DEAF8E608/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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