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Where in the world is ...?

By Jacqueline Lipton

Did anyone notice Google's new feature - Google Latitude?  Google describes the service as follows:

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With Google Latitude, you can:

• See where your friends are and what they are up to
• Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
• Control your location and who gets to see it

Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, PC, or both.

From your mobile phone - View your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them. (Supported phones)

From your computer - View your friends' locations and status messages on a full screen even without a compatible phone or data plan. Click here to see your friends from your PC.

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Is this Twitter to the n-millionth degree?  Do we really need to see where everybody is all the time?  I think I recall seeing something about "social networking fatigue" in one of the weekend papers.  Is there truly a market for even more services that allow us to constantly update each other about our most mundane movements?  Or am I just sounding too much like an old timer now?

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).