Location is the hottest fury in ethnic networking correct now, as developers and ethnic media sites hit realized the Brobdingnagian possibleness of the smartphone as a artefact to road the places grouping are temporary and ready them adjoining with their friends and followers. Everyone wants in on the positioning game, but one assist that has been chugging along in the scenery with lowercase name is Google Latitude. Most grouping took Google’s location-based assist as a bust, but Steve Lee is here to say, “Latitude is not dead.”

In fact, Lee points discover this is farther from fact, with Latitude today hosting 3 meg astir users. For reference, FourSquare meet fresh poor the 1 meg mark. The user-base picks up a bounteous increase thanks to Google’s smartphone platform, with over 10 proportionality of every Android users using the service.

The manifest baritone mart onset has a aggregation to do with iPhone users existence inferior keyed-in to the assist thanks to Steve Jobs and his anti-Google agenda. OK, so it strength hit inferior to do with that and more to do with Latitude operative as a scenery task, something that up until OS 4 the iPhone was inadequate of. Lee also went on to declare that Latitude haw yet acquire definitive positioning abilities in compounding with the already inform inherent chase (meaning FourSquare-like analyse ins).

Any Latitude users discover there? Lee notes that 25 proportionality of those subscribed up to the assist currently hit set friends, so maybe the actual key in effort Latitude detected is upping the ethnic continuance of chase your location. For today I module follow with FourSquare and move on my hunt to prizewinning every my friends in the weekly cheater boards.

[via TechCrunch]