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When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers.
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One more nail in Microsoft coffin ! We knew it was coming, it is now official, Chrome is becoming the foundation of a new lightweight operating system. Great !
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010."
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Finally ! Google released a Latitude API, so now I can broadcast my location to the world, or write a script to record it and automatically tag my pictures, or have a new Android application that select music based on the weather of where I am.. you know.. to better fit the mood around :-)
I've decided to share the best available location for now, not seeing any real issue with this, we'll see how it turns out. So.. wondering where I am NOW ? Here it is:
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The interesting question is at the end of the post. Imagine Twitter licenses the firehose to Google, how much should they charge for it ? What is the value ?
"A real time feed of Twitter posts would negate much of the head start Twitter has in the nascent real time search space. It would be a coup for Google to get the Twitter milk without having to buy the cow. The real question is, does Twitter fully understand the value of this feed?"
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