Glympse is useful in several ways, such as when you are going to join party and friends are waiting for you, or when you are lost somewhere you may want to show your exact location to friends with real-time updating.
Glympse is not alternative to other location sharing services such as Foursquare, instead it is something different. You do not follow others for their location statuses but you share your location with the contacts you select, even to those who do not have Glympse installed on their phones.
You can invite anyone to view your location, who will be sent a link via email/SMS or twitter DM, and by visiting that link your friends can view your exact location in a PC or phone browser.
By the way, you can set a timer in invitations, meaning that you can allow a certain friend to view your location for a set period of time.
How to use:
Open Glympse application on your phone. Use
How to view a Glypmse:
To view a Glympse it is not necessary to have Glympse application on your phone. You will receive URL once a Glympse is shared with you.
Open that URL from smartphone browser, Glympse Application or Desktop browser to view location. Shared Glympse can also be viewed from Facebook feeds if posted by your friends.
For your phone:
Glympse is available for Android, iPhone, Windows 7 phones and BlackBerry.
Glympse “Share your where”, location sharing for everyday life.
Watch short Glympse introductory video