Gawker's Stalker Maps Provide Celebrity Sightings

Posted on March 17, 2006

We've posted before about the blogarazzi and it looks like they are here for real now with Gawker's launch of Gawker Stalker maps. Gawker Stalker allows anyone to submit celebrity sightings. Gawker posts the details about each of the submitted sightings. They also pinpoint the locations on a map using technology from Google Maps and Wists. Celebrity seekers can also use it to find out where celebrities are and then try and find them.

US Weekly's blog (yes US Weekly is blogging too) explains Gawker's new celeb tracking tool.

In the name of privacy and completely invading it comes Gawker Stalker Maps! Brought to you from gawker.com, the site has people send in celebrity sightings which are then posted immediately on a map. So basically, if you have no shame or conscience whatsoever, you can pinpoint the location of a celeb and then go follow them around like a lovestruck teenager.

Blogebrity points out that the service is just for New York celebrity tracking: "Looks like Stalk-tastic fun for New Yorkers. Sadly, those of us on the left coast are stuck in the dark ages of celebrity tracking until Defamer launches its own PrivacyWatch map."

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