Google does buddy geolocation
Henri Bergius
henri.bergius at iki.fi
Wed Feb 4 23:42:38 PST 2009
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
<pierre-luc at pierlux.com> wrote:
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html
> Yep, our early study of the technologie is that it doesn't uses XMPP at
> all, so no compatibility with XEP-0080 and upcomping geoloc in
> Empathy :(
...which is unfortunate, considered that this could've been possible
to link to Google Talk XMPP accounts. Similarly, Google Latitude
doesn't appear to have any API, making it quite impossible to link
with GeoClue (or external services like Fireeagle).
--
Henri Bergius
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