It seems that all the rage these days is in social networking applications that allow you to broadcast your location, or, “Check-In”, essentially posting your GPS or cell-tower triangulated location up to the internet. Applications like Foursquare and Gowalla popularized checking in and big companies like Facebook and Google are trying to mainstream it with Facebook Places and Google Latitude.
It seems like there are really two factions when it comes to applications that allow you to broadcast your location. Those that thing low-jacking your location via your mobile device for the world to see is the most insane idea ever… and, everyone else…
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