Glympse

Glympse Send a 'Glympse' to share your location The free service is called Glympse, from a company of the same name that has designed it to share your location with friends and colleagues in small increments of time -- glimpses, as the name implies, of your whereabouts.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share 2009

With a mobile application that works on iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile devices, users share their location (aka a "Glympse"), allowing their friends to see that location on another phone or on any other Internet-connected device.

Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Lance Whitney 2010

Our take: Trying to coin a new type of communication (a "Glympse") from the get-go is audacious.

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

For example, if you were to download an app like Glympse or Foursquare -- which are designed to enable you to share your location -- it would make perfect sense to permit those apps to know your location, but if it were an app that had no obvious reason to know your location, you might want to think twice before enabling it.

Larry Magid: Are Android Apps Less Secure than iPhone Apps? 2010

These basic solutions (the free Glympse is a good example) are available for download via the app stores for the iPhone and Android, and let smartphone users easily share their real-time location.

Staying In Touch With Mobile Workers Jeanine Sterling 2010

These basic solutions (the free Glympse is a good example) are available for download via the app stores for the iPhone and Android, and let smartphone users easily share their real-time location.

Staying In Touch With Mobile Workers 2010

For example, if you were to download an app like Glympse or Foursquare -- which are designed to enable you to share your location -- it would make perfect sense to permit those apps to know your location, but if it were an app that had no obvious reason to know your location, you might want to think twice before enabling it.

Larry Magid: Are Android Apps Less Secure than iPhone Apps? 2010

I used Glympse on an iPhone and a G1 and, for comparison, tried out a couple of other location-sharing applications, Google Latitude and Loopt.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share 2009

Picking zero minutes shared only my location at the moment of sending, while selecting four hours meant the recipients of my Glympse could track me for that period of time, wherever I went.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share 2009

A nice thing about the service is that it doesn't require recipients to have the Glympse software, though the experience is richer when they do.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share 2009