Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
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Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
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Re: Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
#2It's a bit surprising they didn't implement this long ago. I quit like this google tracking feature, I can see how some people might have privacy concerns but I don't personally care at all.
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#3Google Now is becoming increasingly impressive to me. For instance, last time I rented a car when it was time for me to return it, it showed me locations of gas near the airport. That's incredibly useful.
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#4It's a bit surprising they didn't implement this long ago. I quit like this google tracking feature, I can see how some people might have privacy concerns but I don't personally care at all.
Location history has been available for at least two years on Android, but without many of the bells and whistles described here such as location-delete and photo location-marking. But recording where I am at every waking -- and sleeping, for that matter -- moment and storing it in google's cloud for it to be analyzed, correlated with my search history, sold to advertisers, and possibly hacked or subpoenaed seems shamelessly intrusive and voyeuristic. So no, I am not signing up for this. If I forget where I parked I'll just walk around in concentric circles of increasing radius while repeatedly activating my remote until my car chirps its presence. Small price to pay for maintaining the last vestige of privacy I think I have.
Re: Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
#5If you're into this kind of tracking but don't necessarily want to go with Google, check out the Moves app (available on both iOS and Android). It's pretty no-nonsense and has an API. It guesses at locations based on things that FourSquare has, which would be its main weakness compared to this, I think.
Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that one of the things that I love that uses the Moves API is Gyroscope (http://www.gyrosco.pe). Development seems to have stagnated a bit, but it's still a really neat site.
Re: Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
#6If you're into this kind of tracking but don't necessarily want to go with Google, check out the Moves app (available on both iOS and Android). It's pretty no-nonsense and has an API. It guesses at locations based on things that FourSquare has, which would be its main weakness compared to this, I think. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that one of the things that I love that uses the Moves API is Gyroscope (…
One thing to note, Moves was acquired by Facebook a while back. I believe they changed their privacy policy after the acquisition to something a bit more fishy.
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#7Google Now is becoming increasingly impressive to me. For instance, last time I rented a car when it was time for me to return it, it showed me locations of gas near the airport. That's incredibly useful.
Or, you know, one can open their GPS/Maps app and with 1 or 2 clicks (or even a voice command) ask for gas stations near the airport.
Google Now sounds paper-clippy and diminishing returns to me...
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#8Easily remember all the places I've been, eh? Sounds familiar. Is it like Google Latitude, which I used to easily remember all the places I had been until it was retired in 2013?
Re: Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
#9If you're into this kind of tracking but don't necessarily want to go with Google, check out the Moves app (available on both iOS and Android). It's pretty no-nonsense and has an API. It guesses at locations based on things that FourSquare has, which would be its main weakness compared to this, I think. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that one of the things that I love that uses the Moves API is Gyroscope (…
One thing to note, Moves was acquired by Facebook a while back. I believe they changed their privacy policy after the acquisition to something a bit more fishy.
Thanks for the heads-up! I had no idea.
Re: Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored
#10I'm interested to see if this prompts privacy concerns as I feel it should actually appease them.
The problem with location tracking previously was that it was too easy to not notice it. Click through a few confirmations during app setup and fail to dig into menus and you might never know about it.
The more it's front and center (and useful) as a feature the more likely people with legitimate concerns are to be aware of it and the ability to disable or selectively remove data.
I was pleased to see 'delete day' was so prominent in the UI.