The Daily Geek #117 - Fewer Jobs, Facebook's BDAY, Cell Sales, Amazon, Google's Latitude and more

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Griffin talks about how there are 1 million fewer jobs in January than a few months ago :( He then wishes Happy Birthday to Facebook (they turn 5!). Griffin then talks about Cellphone sales being down by 12.6%. Griffin talks about Amazon reporting in their SEC filings that they are being investigated by the U.S. Postal Service. Griffin ends the show talking about Google's Latitude service.

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Are you interested in Location-Based Social Networking? Tried Brightkite or Loopt? Excited about Latitude?!

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[aluzhin]

No..... no way.

[sweetgeektv]

too creepy for you aluzhin?

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[ocwicked]

ive tried loopt and its okay all we need is more people to use these

[sweetgeektv]

ocwicked, right not a lot of people rocking the location-based social networks - i think it's the creepy factor that's kind of holding people back.

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[rushringleader]

I have to play my role. I LOVE LATITUDE! haha I have the new Gmaps installed on the berry and have my location streaming. I need more friends with this though. My friend will be installing it tomorrow when I talk to him haha.

[sweetgeektv]

rushringleader- it will be interesting to see the adoption for a google social app which is fairly new territory for them. We'll just have to wait and see.

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[sweetgeektv]

haha that's two interesting examples of what it could be used for, but I think it's mostly to stalk your friends and see if they are at a cooler place than you so you can then follow them to the cool place or wait maybe i don't know. it's going to be interesting to see where it goes.

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[sweetgeektv]

but not for stalking.. good deal. :) haha - nice to see ya check in thelongestchamp - kind of missed ya. :)

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[thelongestchamp]

only for location based games

[complexgrafix]

in some ways. its a cool option for certain ppl but not everyone . i guess it is good for parents and couples with trust issues idk