Now the latest version of Google Maps (for Mobile & PC) will have a new feature Google Latitude, that will let you know the location of your friend and to share your location with your friends in real-time. It may not be the exact location of that person but surely you can know the exact area where s/he is currently. This is a Google’s 1st step for socialization.

Installing Google Maps, you can share your location information with your friends automatically or even set it manually. This option is included to take care of individual privacy. Apart from that, you can also post a short status message and choose a profile photo.

Mobile Compatibility: Its only available for Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian S60)
Computer Compatibility: Just add it to your igoogle

Want to know whatelse you can do apart from just knowing your friends location? Google gave complete list of feature, which are as under:

After selecting yourself, you can:

- Change your status message across Google products. Your status will only be shared with your current Google Talk or Gmail chat friends.
- Change your photo across Google products.
- Submit or edit your phone number in Latitude for your friends.
- Edit your privacy settings for all friends.

After selecting a friend, you can:

- Show the friend in map view.
- Search for places near your friend.
- Call if a phone number is available in your Google Contacts or Latitude.
- Chat using Google Talk or Gmail chat if available.
- Send an email.
- Get directions to the friend’s approximate location.
- Set sharing options. You can choose to hide your location or share only city level location with individual friends.
- Remove the friend. Your friend cannot see your location and you cannot see the friend’s location.
“You can always change privacy settings for all friends using the Latitude privacy menu. ”

Unfamiliar with some words or techniques? Ok, for you here is the video:

For now Google Latitude has above features but I assume soon you can get lore more from Google Latitude.

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