There are numerous ways to broadcast your location with a smartphone.
Redmond startup Glympse is joining the fray, but with a twist: Glympse lets users temporarily invite friends, family or contacts to track their whereabouts. The time limited sharing of location data is a key difference from services such as Google’s Latitude.
Once the service is installed on a phone, users can click on a contact to send a “glympse” message. The recipient can then see the sender’s location displayed on a map. The location transmission can be limited to a few minutes, or provided for up to four hours.
Initially the service is available only on T-Mobile USA G1 phones, based on the Android operating system backed by Google, but Glympse plans to “soon” be available on the iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices.
Source: Seattle Times
See Also: Direct to Glympse Web Site
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