{"id":69,"date":"2009-02-05T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irohit.com\/diary\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/google-latitude\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:19:44","slug":"google-latitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/google-latitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Latitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently at a meeting at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googleplex\">Googleplex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Googlers. How do we make more money in this economic downturn?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 2<\/strong>: How about we target mobile users with ads?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Don\u2019t we do that already?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 2<\/strong>: Do we? I was thinking\u2026 pushing ads based on their location\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Hmm, tell me more\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 2<\/strong>: We can tempt them into installing an app so that we can know their location<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Isn\u2019t that invasion of privacy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 2<\/strong>: Not unless marketing puts a positive spin on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 3<\/strong>: We could say it will help then to track their loved ones\u2026 we could start with children. Every parent would love that. Next we will have jealous, suspicious spouses&#8230; and finally everybody<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Genius\u2026 and we will fit into our \u2018Don&#8217;t be evil\u2019 culture and make it free!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1<\/strong>: Let\u2019s christen this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/latitude\/intro.html\">Google Latitude<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google worker 1,2,3<\/strong>: $$$<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently at a meeting at Googleplex Google worker 1: Googlers. How do we make more money in this economic downturn? Google worker 2: How about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irohit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}