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Glympse
Glympse is a social location-aware application on the G1 and Android that lets you share your current location with your friends, and in turn stay up-to-date on your friends’ locations. The really neat thing about this app is that your “glympses” have an time limit (between 5 minutes to 4 hours), which means that your location is visible only for a set period. This can be particularly useful if you are running late and your friends keep calling you asking when you’ll make it. With Glympse, you can just share your location in real-time for as long as you like. The location is layered on top of a Google Maps view.
The time limit gets around any privacy concerns you might have with disclosing your current location. You can send Glympses via email, test message, or tweets. You can pick the list of people you share your location with dynamically – so there’s no need to create a profile, add friends, and that sort of thing. Your Glympses are also fully visible on a regular website browser, so your friends don’t need to be running the app for it to be useful. Overall, this is a very useful application with almost no downsides in terms of privacy concerns – a must-download for those with active social lives and frequent travelers.