stalkme.c

[andygates]

This is pretty neat.  It's a public location badge, fed by Google Latitude, and it can be set to vague or precise locale (ie, cell or GPS).  Might use this for the LEJOG just for the lulz.  If you see me doing 70 on the M5, you know I'm cheating!

(if it's working, that is... taptaptap, is this thing on?)

Comments

[kimble.livejournal.com]

I, for one, welcome our google-stalking overlords.

Dunno about the Android version, but on S60, latitude will stop using the GPS when the phone goes idle to save power. Means you can get a whole day's cyclist-tracking on one battery, but cell-based positioning does sometimes give comedy results out in the sticks.

It's still good enough that when barakta's feeling stalky she'll be lurking at the front door as a I turn into our road.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's pretty durn stalky. Or sweet, depending, I guess. :)

So, it's definitely useful in certain circumstances, and people will get into using casual geolocation in really mundane ways -- "Pick up some milk, while you're there" kind of stuff.

The business driver (apart from sweet sweet data seams) is ads, and I'm still waiting to see a really useful locally-targeted advert. "2 for one on tea and cake Penny's Pantry"? I wish!

I need to look into battery life tweaks, as I'm still in sweetshop mode. AR is hungry!