Technology has grown to great extent; you do not have time to visit your friends and dear ones. What if someone alerts you that “your school friend has landed in the city you live”? Yes Google Latitude does that.

Google has started its location-based services, which lets you to see and share your friend’s location on Google Maps. Google Latitude helps you to stay in touch with friends, or to track your loved ones get home safely.

Google Latitude Location History

Travel lovers will really love to have the visited place stored in Google maps. Enable Google Location History to store and manage your past visited locations on Google Maps. In your convenience you can also delete a portion or entire history.

Location history can be enabled using the following link.

Google Latitude Location Alert

Enable Google Location Alert, it will send the notification every time when friends are near each other. Your past location history is noted to recognize your routine locations which will avoid sending notification to your latitude friends.

What if your alerted every time for the your roommate or co-workers?
Do’nt forget to enable your location history, which will prevent alerting every-time for the roommates or co-workers.

Google Latitude is really wonderful service which should be enabled when you’re new to the city or when you feel the neighborhood is not safe. Its better check your neighborhood safety before visiting the new place.

Demo Google Latitude

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

Google wave is surfing around the web since May 2009 and it is expected to be made open to the public in Dec 2009.Google wave brings hope of “e-communication” for the future.A bunch of invites has be sent to interested users to explore on 30th Sep 2009.

What is Google Wave?

Google wave is a simple fusion of gmail,picasa,google docs and social networking.Its a great tool which limits the screen hopping between the following applications ultimately.

1.Gmail(with inbox and instant messenger),
2.picasa(google photo sharing) ,
3.google docs(google file sharing)
4.Social media(Orkut,Facebook, twitter and many more)

Yes,your reading it right! Everything in one screen.Your professional and social network is managed in the same screen.

Google wave features
1.Spell checker
2.Embedding video instantly with chat or mail
3.social gadgets (to hit your social games eg.Farm ville)
4.exploring google maps
5.Seamlessly integrates with your blog or website
6.Wiki (collaborative editing of docs for the team or group)
7.Charter-by-character viewing(while chatting,you can view what is typed in opposite side)
8.Image drag & drop with integrated image slide show .
9.Native language conversion(chatting you type in English ,instantly your friend reads in French)
10.Handles RSVP efficiently
11.Play back of chatting or emails in same sequence.
12.search options to get the tagged mail or chat.
13.Google wave is very much friendly with iPhone and android phones.
14.Easy to communicate between your blog and wave
15.Integration of wave with orkut client.

Stay tuned to know the technical details with features of Google Wave.
if your searching for the link to get the invites.You can punch this link.

Google wave demo in 2 minutes

Google Maps is well know travel navigator with the updated version of map. Google is now providing the new feature of “Live Traffic”, just by selecting the button “Traffic”. Map coloring is also enabled to show the traffic status in your city.

Red – Heavy traffic
Red and Black – Stop and slow moving traffic
Yellow – Medium traffic
Green – Free to go

In case if your jammed in the traffic, No problem your given option to select the alternate routes in your mobile phones, just zooming goggle maps on a particular city will give latest traffic details.

How is goggle providing you this “Live traffic” status?
Yes , it might be from your friends mobile phones.

Everybody on the road, all at once, could tell the world how fast their car is moving. Some phones, such as the Google Android , myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic “crowdsourcing” pre-installed (however, iPhone does not support traffic crowdsourcing).

With GPS and “My Location” option enabled on your phone, Google receives data sent from your mobile to describe how fast the traffic is moving. Having this enabled in more mobiles will give the better resulting of live-traffic report.

“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”…

Android developers progress the activity in google application for better tomorrow. In general phone applications has average life of 30 days and later it lose it sense with phone user. There are certain applications will have great stand. Let us have a look at top applications of google phone.

A real cool application which was released today(when i started writing this) was “nimbuzz”.Nimbuzz will give access to all your chat application in one window. Just by switching chat(yahoo chat,gmail chat ,skype etc) apps you can chat with your friends easily.

1. Cab4Me (Call a cab)
Cab4me is very friendly apps which lets users call a cab to their location with a single click. In built GPS and google maps locate not only the user’s current location, but also the location of the cab nearest to the user. User is given option to select the cab he/she is interested with a click on map you can dial the cab nearest to you.

Calling a cab with these two features in phone
GPS – To search and locate the cab
Phone – To call the nearest cab

2. imeem Mobile (Music Feast)
imeem Mobile is a feast for music lovers, where users can listen to streamed music for free or buy it if it suits their type. It has a friendly navigation to search,to tag for favorites,to listen to recent played and many more. Sharing favorite songs made much easier via email.
Recommendations with review will suggest you with new music list of your type. Handy click can buy song from amazon MP3. Users can drive this application with google phone and iPhone.

imeem application uses the feature of google phone.
imeem browser – To search,to listen,to share and tag there music type.
Phone speaker – To break the ear the drum.(not so funny)

3. iSkoot for Skype(Talk from google phone to laptop or any 3G phone with online friends)
iSkoot for Skype is an application that will enable voice chat in WiFi to anywhere in the world form your google phone, by having the skype will directly connect to your chat or call with any of your contacts over your wireless connection. Having registered with skype phone number you to be able to make and receive calls. You also talk from google phone to laptop or any 3G phone. This is pretty handy to make voice chat or chat with people online.

iSkoot application uses the following features
1.iSkoot browser – To Ping the friends online and to call the friends
2.Phone speaker – To share the voice

4. BreadCrumbz (Travel lovers)
BreadCrumbz is an application which can be used in realtime very much as map or guide to the desired place. The highlight here is to create and customize your own map to the place you wish to go for this summer. Making a guide is really made easy as well as BreadCrumbz will guide you right through the entire process step by step. You can customize to the extend where you can create breadcrumz to the building you enter till you exit. It is just picture-based navigation application for mobile phones.

BreadCrumbz will use the following
Camera – To snap the place
Phone – To share with Friends

5. Wikitude(Travel lovers)
Wikitude is a location aware Wikipedia app for the Android platform. It will use the in built camera and it will scan the details from the web(mostly from Flicker),by selecting your place of interest will provide more details. It will also add the geo-tagged picture and makes interesting if you browse for new place around you. Restaurant or bar search is made easy with more reviews, after the brief search you can also make call to restaurant or bar for the reservation directly from wikitude browser. This application is definitely handy guided tourist with bulit-in GPS with more details about the location.

Wikitude uses the following feature in the phone
Camera – To scan the location.
Phone – To make a call (if needed for reservation).
Data plan – To get more details about the location.

6. CompareEverywhere (Smart shopping)
CompareEverywhere will provide smarter way of Shopping. Just scan the barcode you will be given good deal of “sale price” with reviews in neighborhood stores and online tracking of shopping lists, and wish lists. Its killer shopping application.

Compareeverywhere uses the following
1.Camera – To scan the barcode.
2.Data Plan – To compare the products online & share with your friends.
3.GPS – To locate the stores near by.

7. Shazam (Music lovers)
Shazam is feature rich application for music lovers. This application will Identify music running from anywhere in anytime. Just hold your google phone to the song playing near you,It will scan and load the song with more details. It will also weed the unwanted noise.

“Tag Now” (to add in your collection) and “My Tags”(in your collection list) are two basic option to organise your music library.

After scanning the song,it gives following features
1.It will bring artist details.
2.realted video in youtube.
3.online store to buy the music album.
4.Tweet your song to your follwers.
5.send your Tags as a Postcard to friends.
6.can see other music from the artist and view song lyrics.
7.Tag the untag’ed music once found in WiFi.

8. SplashPlay (Learn guitar online)
Learning to play guitar is fun and it made easier with your google phone.SplashPlay combines various aspects of music tuition seamlessly in a single application. An add-on device is needed to enjoy the real tempo else you will lose the power of splashplay.

The finger movements on the string is tracked and recorded as dotted lights in color on your android platform. Playing guitar to your impress your girl friend or boy friend is possible by just learning to play the favourite song.

9. ShopSavvy
ShopSavvy makes you shopaholic with its mind blowing features. This application will scan the barcode of any product and it will search for all the best prices on the Internet, it also makes things easy by searching through the inventories of nearby, local stores with the phone’s built-in GPS. Animations are used to enhance the mobile user experience.

Your shopping is done with features in phone
Camera – To scan the barcodes.
Browser – To make an online purchase or to view the merchant’s product page.
Email – To share the product’s link to a friend.
Shopsavvy– To rate the product and to get the review.

10.Google Voice:
Google Voice will manage all your phones (mobiles, Home phone, and work phone) with one google number. All the calls will be forwarded to one phone.This application works in voip and it will say “no fee” to service provider for call forwarding in any phone.

Google voice will use following feature from phone
Phone – One phone number for the life time and ring all the phone to one number.
Browser – To add all phone number(office,home,mobile) and call forward.
WiFi – To Connect to Internet(else will be using a data plan)

Google Voice is an application which can has fine tuned the communications in the world of internet. It is available since 11th March 2009.Grand Central was acquired by Google and renamed as Google voice on July 2007.

Google Voice will manage all your phones (mobiles, Home phone, and work phone)
with one google number. All the calls will be forwarded to one phone. Here fighting against Phone Spam is also made easier online.

Google voice highlights are:-
1. Call US numbers for free.
2. Receive voicemails via email or SMS.
3. Answer an incoming call on any of your phones.(Prefer Landline to avoid money burning service provider)
4. Low-priced international calls.
5. One phone number, forward all your phone (mobiles, Home phone, and work phone) calls to this number
6. Archived text messages you send and receive.
7. Goog-411 directory assistance.

Drawback:–

1. Reciever will not have your google number displayed in the caller ID.

Work around:-

1. Google Voice users should make their Google Voice number appear on the other party’s device, by calling their own Google number, pressing 2, and then entering the number they want to call or by using the web interface to place the call.

2. They can also go to their Google voice account on a computer, click call and type in a number. In that case, Google calls the number with the Google Voice user’s number as caller ID.

Google Voice has been Launched for Android (google phone), Blackberry phone users.
The Google Voice applications for Android and Blackberry smart phones can automatically forward outgoing calls via the user’s Google Voice number instead of the device’s phone number

You can register yourself to get the invites from google for the google voice.

For more features.

Apple has rejected Google voice in iPhone, No surprise google Voice is a nightmare to AT&T and other service providers.