Glympse Lets Everyone Know Your Mobile Location (if you want them to)

Glympse just announced yesterday that their new Glympse service is available in public Beta. What is Glympse? It is a service for your smartphone that lets you share your real-time location with others in your address book via a link to a map marking your exact location.

Running late to a meeting? Stuck in Traffic? No need to make phone calls or send texts to let everyone know, just send them the link (or as the company says, "glympse" them). The map will mark your exact location and he recipient can then follow you in real time (if on a computer…mobile users will need to refresh). It will then give them the estimated time of your arrival if the destination has been sent. You can choose who can see where you are (after all, you don't want your entire address book knowing, do you?) and for how long (from minutes to hours). Recipients don't need to download Glympse to view the information, however, the company says that they will "have a more dynamic experience" if they do.

Right now the service is only available on T-Mobile G1 phones, but they plan to make it available on other smartphones, including the iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices in the near future.

For more information, visit www.glympse.com.