Privacy and Google's Latitude

Google has just released Latitude, a a service that lets you keep track of where your friends are by tracking the whereabouts of their mobile phones. Latitude is available in 27 countries. The following phones are supported: Android-powered devices with Maps v3.0 and above. G1 users in the US will be receiving Maps v3.0 in a system update soon. Most color BlackBerry devices Most Windows Mobile 5.0 and above devices. Note: Some Windows Mobile devices don’t support cell-ID location detection. Most Symbian S60 devices iPhone and iPod touch devices with the Google Mobile App (coming soon in the US) Many Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon) (From Pandia) It is opt-in. Will Google be 'on top' of the privacy issue?

Interesting Stats on Adult Social Networking

Plenty of stats - overall message is the SoSo is spreading significantly outside of 18-25 year olds.

Pew Internet Report on Adult Social Networks

News that I didn't get to tell you

There were a host of stories from 2008 that I was just too busy to tell you about. Here are the links to them.

May

• MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter


• Google Friend Connect Launches


• Data Portability Smackdown: Google 1, Facebook 0


• The talkification of the web The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. Now it's the turn of telecoms.

Comcast acquires Plaxo
Comcast purchases Plaxo for a rumoured $150-175m. Comcast plans on using to integrate community features on TV, broadband data and phone services.


June

• Who uses the Web on their mobile phone?
• Nokia acquires Symbian and will open source it

July

• Mobile web reaches critical mass

September

• Google's Android mobile unveiled

November

• Mobile internet usage on the rise
• Google adds voice and video chat to gmail

December

• OpenID - Socialising all over the web? Facebook Connect and Single Sign-on using OpenID
• Wireless turns iPod into a phone (from Truphone) Truphone's software turns itouch in a phone usuing wi-fi and software from Truphone.
  
• Dictionary of project management lingo