Does Google Latitude Take Local Knowledge Too Far?
Written on February 11, 2009
Google Latitude screenshot
The other day I was having a bar-room chat about coincidental run-ins. I mean those times when you randomly bump into someone on the other side of the world, or someone you haven’t seen for many years. I’ve had a fair few of these and they never fail to blow my mind.
“And for all the people that you do run into,” I said to my drinking buddy, “imagine all those you just miss. If you’d been five minutes earlier, you would have walked straight into an old colleague. Or we could be sitting here in this bar and one of our long-lost university friends could be having a drink three doors down.”
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Does Google Latitude Take Local Knowledge Too Far?
Google Latitude screenshot
The other day I was having a bar-room chat about coincidental run-ins. I mean those times when you randomly bump into someone on the other side of the world, or someone you haven’t seen for many years. I’ve had a fair few of these and they never fail to blow my mind.
“And for all the people that you do run into,” I said to my drinking buddy, “imagine all those you just miss. If you’d been five minutes earlier, you would have walked straight into an old colleague. Or we could be sitting here in this bar and one of our long-lost university friends could be having a drink three doors down.”
Continue reading this article @ Going Local
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