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- Loopt Finds Its Way On To Google's Android Market
- Loopt, the Mountain View, Calif.-based location-based mobile social network, said its service, which became well-known after launching on the iPhone, is now launching on the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1. Although Loopt is just one application, its launch on the Android Market could signal that the handset has...
- External links 2008-12-11
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- Loopt evolves in to Loopt Mix!
- Loopt is a popular social-mapping app that allows you to "discover" the world around you on your mobile phone. What started as a popular feature for meeting new people nearby has now grown into its own app – Loopt Mix apparently "introduces you to the people you wish you knew."...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Loopt Shifts Its Strategy To Tap The Pulse Of Location
- When Loopt launched in 2006 it was ahead of a curve that is just starting to be recognized: Location. Now, with services like Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , and even Twitter fueling the location-based services frenzy, Loopt realized that it...
- News items 2009-11-03
- First-of-a-Kind Location-Based Social Mapping Service for Youth: Boost Mobile and loopt Pioneer Social Mapping for Young Mobile Phone Users
- Boost loopt Enables Today's Youth to Keep in Touch with Real-Time Location Maps, Status Messages, Photos and more Directly from their Boost Mobile Phones
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- MG's ten favorite iPhone apps of 2008
- Now, before I write anything else, let me just say that these are my ten favorite iPhone applications of 2008 and not necessarily what I think are the ten best iPhone apps — because really, there are so many diverse apps, how can one judge which is the best of...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Blackberry Developer Conference: It's All about the Apps
- At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference , several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion RIM came new geolocation, advertising and push services in addition to other developer tools. Meanwhile, companies like Loopt, eBay, Xobni, and others...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Google Cranks Creepy Meter with Latitude Location History, Alerts
- Google Nov. 10 launched Location History and Location Alerts features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful, and invite scrutiny from privacy critics. Despite the obvious privacy safeguards of not sharing location history with users and offering users the ability to scrub their location history, the...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Stalqer mobile social app finds friends in new ways
- Stalqer locates even friends who don't use the service.(Credit: Stalqer)The developers of the iPhone app GasBag, which helps iPhone users find the cheapest gas for your car, are working on a new mobile friend locator service, Stalqer. This clever and aptly named service has two technologies that are unique, as...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Mobile marketing based on place is finally making strides; CBS hooks up with social network Loopt to serve geo-targeted banner ads without invading privacy.(Digital)(CBS Inc. CBS News)
- Byline: ALICE Z. CUNEO Byline: ALICE Z. CUNEO
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Why the iPhone Won't Revolutionize Location-Based Advertising (But May Help)
- While the new 3G iPhone will surely sell in massive quantities, will it be able to break open the tough-to-crack nut of location-based advertising? An article at ClickZ speculates: "What's going to start evolving is applications for more of a content device, rather than more of a communication device....
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Global Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013, According to ABI Research
- LONDON -- The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Apple Takes Early Lead WIth iPhone Store; Will Developers Dedicate Resources To New Platforms?
- Apple has not only been successful at selling millions of iPhones, but its application storefront has been a runaway hit, too. Launched in July, the App store is available in 60 countries, and is stocked with about 8,000 games, social networking sites, and other reference tools. The number of...
- External links 2008-11-22
- A Screen Where Everyone Knows Your Name
- Early mobile-networking services like Dodgeball were better in theory than in practice. Knowing when your friends were in the neighborhood: great! Enduring a constant deluge of text messages: not so great. But new startups streamline the idea, pinpointing your friends on a graphical interface and letting you add notes for...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Emerging Internet Trends: An Analysis of Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit Presentation
- Yesterday we wrote about Mary Meeker's annual overview of Internet trends at the Web 2.0 Summit. In this post we do a deeper dive into the Web themes that Meeker explored. In particular we'll analyze mobile social networking, compare 2009 to previous years, and look at the...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Why Challenging Apple's iPhone is Possible For Verizon Motorola Droid
- A new report from Morgan Stanley Internet shows that the iPhone and iPod Touch have fueled the mobile Web to outstrip the growth of the Web on the desktop. After only eight quarters, the iPhone and iPod Touch have 57 million users. That is more than twice as many users...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Where to Find the Bright Spots in 2009
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The worst November-December retail season since 1970; taxpayer bailouts to save Detroit; marketing budgets slashed; tens of thousands laid off across agencies, media companies and marketing departments; and still more cuts coming every day. You've read the bad news, and no one's denying that it's grim,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- TWITTER LOCAL: 5 Twitter Geolocation Features We Want
- Twitter's Geolocation API means that tweets are soon to be location-aware. Should you opt-in and share your geolocation with developers, your location in the physical world — ie. your longitude and latitude — will be associated with your tweets. Geolocation and Twitter can make a beautiful pairing, as we've already...
- News items 2009-08-21
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