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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Location Sharing from Google: Now in GMail

The Gmail Labs project was announced in Tuesday in a Google Blog. It’s what you’d expect: if you turn it on it does its best to add your location to any e-mail you send. It uses IP by default, so it many not be accurate. A Google engineer suggests installing and using the location tools in Gears (Wi-Fi) which should yield a more accurate location. Steven Musil uses the term “placedropping” for those who like others to know from what “cool location” they are writing.

- via Webware

by Adena Schutzberg on 02/11 at 06:53 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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