(2009-02-04) Google Latitude Lbs

Google's Latitude is a Location Based Service. Boehret notes that Latitude does tie in with GoogleTalk, Google's Instant Messaging platform. Apparently, you can send a status update (hello, Twitter and FaceBook!) and have it set in Google Talk. Same with a profile picture, apparently it all ties in with Google Talk. That's somewhat interesting, it seems as if this is Google's biggest attempt yet to unify its various properties into a proper social network of sorts.