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Glympse And Geolocation Sharing Trends

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Today, Glympse is launching. Glympse is a location-aware application for your mobile that lets you share your location with whoever you want. On this blog, I like to talk about location-aware technologies, because it shows how online maps are becoming a hot medium. Google Maps are at the root of all those new location-based social networks (I know, Loopt uses Mappoint).

A few days ago, I met the CEO and Co-Founder of Glympse - Bryan Trussel - for an interview, and I saved a bit of our chat for the Click2Map blog. I like this part because it talks about how the Web 1.0 was a physical space getaway, but it slowly turned inside out over time to become the best indicator of our physical existence.

This new trend makes me wonder if our next social profiles online will be maps, and the next big social network will be the place where users can feed their location in (through Latitude for example) and customize the looks of their maps. A map of my whereabouts is the best way to define who I am (hint hint Antony ;)