Google Latitude: location-sharing is here. Think. Again. And Again.

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Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)

Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too:  "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network. Everyday objects become "searchable" as if they were part of the interconnected world wide web. In this interconnected internet of things, scientific management and surveillance of people and the environment we inhabit becomes possible, and marketers' ultimate dreams come true..."

If the speaker sounded less like he's wearing a muzzle it would be even better;)