Loopt went there first, but Loopt doesn't matter. GOOG matters.

Dennis Crowley (who should know) on Latitude and its weaknesses. For my own part, I'm distressed at its comparative lack of dynamic privacy options; for comparison, look at the loving way this is crafted in Fire Eagle. (I also know that, however hard Tom Coates and his crew worked to get things just right, a gazillion more people will adopt Latitude in its first day of use than will ever hear of Fire Eagle. Mostly Yahoo!-corporate's fault, I'm guessing.)

Via Jones. Superfabulous.

"The real question is, what is left for New Yorkers to lord over people who live someplace else? That question was on some New Yorkers’ minds this week when they heard about Google’s new transit map service." HAW.