Take a Glympse

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Very interesting new web service. You use a client app on your iPhone to generate a link and send it via SMS, eMail, Twitter* and FaceBook.

That's right, an app that takes your GPS coordinates and puts them on the Internet. Ok, ok, that sounds much more creepy that it is. It's actually pretty useful.

Think about it.  The classic example is you are running late, no time to talk to explain, just pop open the Glympse App on your iPhone, press your "I am running late but on my way" button in your favorites and you are covered.

What happens is Glympse sends an email to the person you want to know where you are.  They open the email and click the provided link. (the above is an example of what you see).  Very cool. Now there are lots of other uses like finding out exactly where your teenagers are! :)

Or if you are an Internet junkie and want the world to know here is a neat trick:

• Set up a new twitter account (make up a random name:  98987793)
• Associate your Glympse app with that new twitter account.  Download the Sample file from Glympse
• Add Twitter to the To box
• Post it up

Now whenever you want to post where you are going, just post to that twitter account (as seen above).