Broadcast Your Location to all your Google Friends!

Can you imagine pulling up a map on your smart phone and being able to see where all your friends are at any given time?  Well, Google has made that possible with Google Latitude.  Bar hopping will be simple now; no need to text/call all your friends with your whereabouts. They can see where you are and just join you.  This takes the Facebook stalking to a new extreme. 

Theres two ways to use this service; one on your phone by going to http://google.com/latitude on your smart phone and downloading/updating the Google Maps application.  Then once you are in the application make sure you hit the menu (blackberry button) and log into the Latitude part of the app.  Once in you can accept friends that have invited you or you can invite your own friends.  The other option is to go into your iGoogle page and add the application.  But make sure you have Google Gears downloaded because it won’t be able to find your location until then.  I have a sneaky suspicion this will put Loopt out of business really quickly.