Google gobbles map app Waze Google has acquired crowd-sourced map app Waze, and the company behind it. The acquisition gives Google a map app that uses data generated by some 50 million or so users to provide real-time traffic updates and accurate directions even when you drive off the beaten path. "We are excited about the prospect of working with the …
I presume that this will now become yet another method of tracking that Google(Prism, NSA, FBI etc) can use. It's unfortunate because Waze was pretty good for providing live radar position information ( which is not legal in France).
Sometimes I wish that Google would simply collapse in order that the internet and the associated companies return to a "familly" size. These MegaCorporation bring advances, that they choose to bring, but at the same time seem to stifle everything else.
Such has it always been unfortunately.
The whole 'global' mindset is, as you say, good for some things, but there is no long term option that includes variety and choice. Things have already gotten so large that entire governments are held in thrall to massive commercial interests and I don't believe it can be stopped. Oh well. Get in and try and make your riches now I guess.
50 million... yeah, that's about the number of assholes on the road here that are texting and looking at their phone when they should be paying attention to their driving.
So I assume this is mining aggregated GPS position/velocity information from lots 'o people? Kind of like an anonymous Google Latitude of the masses? And Google couldn't write this in-house?
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