Google Latitude is a clever application which shows the location of your phone on a map. As you move in real time your icon moves on the map. A user can allow a single person or a group of people to watch and follow their location and see exactly where they are. What’s even better is a group of people can all follow each other on a single map, so they can all see exactly what each other is doing. This could be particularly fun for a group of friends who were out for the night and wanted to keep an eye on each other, or for a family to keep track of their children. The best thing about the software is that it’s completely free.

“Our Latitude web app provides all the core functionality you might expect: you can see the location of your friends on a map and modify your privacy settings so that you control how your location is shared and with whom. In fact, if my friends and colleagues back in London haven’t yet noticed my absence, they’ll see in Latitude that I’m currently vacationing on the beach in Australia. Hi guys, remember me!?” Google Mobile Blog.



Google Latitude has been available on Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian for some time. The Iphone has been a little harder to work with and unfortunately there has had to be a small reduction in functionality.

“Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we’re not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Window Mobile. Nevertheless, your location is updated every time you fire up the app and then continuously updated while the app is running in the foreground. And, of course, you can check in on where your friends are, so we think there’s plenty of fun to be had with Latitude.” Google Mobile Blog.

Click here http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.html to find out more about Google Latitude.

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Facebook connect finally lands on the iPhone. Its a web development tool which has been designed to help sites add social networking. The application is currently directly in competition with Google Friend Connect. The Facebook Development team have now released a version for the iPhone application developer. This will allow developers to incorporate social networking into there applications. The features include:

- Making Api Phone Calls allowing your app to access user profiles and share information
- Publish directly to Facebook
- Ask other users to extend permissions for offline access and interaction with data

It will be interesting to see how the next wave of iPhone Applications will utilise this technology.