Google Latitude News & Articles

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Google Launches “Latitude” Geolocator
• Facebook Opens Status API
• Fake Dalai Lama Burns Twitter’s Servers
• YouTube Copyright Madness as Teen is Banned
• FriendFeed Search Enables Easy Business Intel

Google Launches Latitude Geolocator

For once Google has arrived at the party after Yahoo!, the party in question being geolocation. Its new Latitude service will pick up your location either via GPS-enabled handset or laptop (accurate), or via your WiFi connection (accurate-ish). When you sign up, which you probably won’t until you’re allowed to lie about your location, you can track the movements of your friends through your Gmail interface and avail of location-aware services like local-oriented search. Get the lowdown at the Google Latitude homepage , and read more about Google Latitude implementations at PC World . Yahoo! launched a similar service called FireEagle last August.