Google Latitude gets more ways to share

Location revealing applications

5 May 2009 9:18 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Google has announced two new applications for its phone tracking Latitude service, that lets users share their location with more people.

The Google "public location badge" lets users publish their Latitude location on their public website or blog.

By embedding the badge and enabling this application, the user's location will be shared publicly by either "best available" location, or "city-level location".

Google Talk location status, available in beta, lets users share their Latitude location with all Gmail chat and Google Talk contacts.

This will automatically update a user's status message to their current city as they move.

Google says these applications are only available in the US for now, but they'll "soon" be ready for all the same languages and countries that Google Latitude supports.

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