Topic: Loopt Inc.

Infographic of the Day: The 28 Flavors of Online Conversation in 2010

The Conversation Prism, an exhaustive encyclopedia of all the various sites offering online dialogue, has just been released in an updated version for 2010. Media guru Brian Solis and creative agency JESS3 produced the first ...READ»

Your Smartphone Will Soon Double as Your Wallet

The race is on to transform your smartphone into your wallet.READ»

Foursquare Scores $20 Million From Venture Capitalists

Foursquare announced today that they've secured $20 million in additional funding from venture capitalists, including Silicon Valley veterans Andreessen Horowitz.READ»

Loopt Founder: iPhone's New Multitasking a "Sea Change" For Location Gaming

Loopt's updated iPhone app is out. With it comes Star service as an add-on that turns Loopt into a sort of loyalty card for everything. What's more, Loopt is an iOS4 app and can run in the background. Loopt's founder talked with us ...READ»

Loopt Aims at Being the Digital Loyalty Card for Everything

Loopt, tired of falling into the shadow of location games like Foursquare and Gowalla, has just upped its ante. A lot. It's releasing Loopt Star, a rewards scheme that basically turns it into a store loyalty card, stored ...READ»

Let's Get Physical: WeReward, Loopt, Others Push Users Into Real Stores

Ted Murphy looks at a soda can and sees an opportunity for people to make money. And not by returning the empties to collect a nickel. Instead, the CEO of IZEA sees people snapping photos of their beverages with their iPhones and ...READ»

Why Facebook Should Acquire Location-Based SN, FourSquare

The rumor mill has been churning ever since Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, flew to New York to visit Foursquare CEO Dennis Crow, reports TechCrunch. The meeting hints at a potential acquisition of FourSquare...READ»

Mobile Tech’s Influence in a Network Society

Do you remember life before Facebook or Twitter or your Blackberry? In the past few years, we have moved beyond chat rooms and community forums to life-casting platforms that can be updated via your mobile phone. You can upload your son’s 1st soccer goal on YouTube, before the game is over. As we move forward...READ»

Checking in at Foursquare's Hot Tubbin', Rooftop, Rock Star Moment

Rabid users of the social game threw 150 parties on 4-16 (four-squared). Fast Company reports from the New York City rooftop soiree, where Foursquare founders and 500 fans toasted the wildly popular app.READ»

BRAND OR DIE: The Downfall of the Institution and the Rise of the Personal Brand

Through the use of emerging technology, and the downfall of the institution, your personal brand is all you've got left. You can learn to control it, build it the way you want it to be, or you can let others control it. You have the choice: Brand or Die.READ»

Facebook to Add Location Data, Encourage Epic Levels of Oversharing

According to The New York Times, Facebook is set to introduce location sharing into their arsenal of social networking tricks this April at the F8 conference. I predict that 98% of my Facebook updates will read "My bedroom." This ...READ»

Virtual Goods in Location-Aware Mobile Games: The Future of Product Placement

Booyah, a location-based game start-up, has announced it'll be trying out a new type of promotion that may be the model for smartphone ads in the future: In-game, virtual goods placements, based on your real-time location. ...READ»

Facebook Really Wants to Know Where You Are, Considers Buying Loopt

Rumors are swirling that Facebook's looking to purchase location-aware social net Loopt. It makes perfect sense, given the sudden arrival recently of Google's Buzz mobile, which is location-aware from the get-go. Facebook's playing ...READ»

Loopt's Location-based Ads Hit the iPhone, 'Minority Report' Here We Come

Loopt, the location-based sharing service, has taken the logical next step for its system: Loopt on the iPhone now includes location-based advertising. We've been expecting this, but is it a sign the floodgates of location-ads are ...READ»

OMG: The Future of Retail Design Is Augmented-Reality Facades

Click a pic of a building, and get info on all the inhabitants.READ»

Google Latitude Tracks Your Location History

While most people use Google maps to get directions or look up an address, few realize the many other options available using the Maps feature. One such application is Google Latitude, a more social feature which enables users to track location history and discover the world around them. On Wednesday, Google announced added features to the Latitude location application that will make the tool more powerful than ever. Now, users can…READ»

New Loopt App Helps You With Random Hookups ... Now

The iPhone has been a dating tool for a while, but Loopt's putting their technology to more... immediate uses with a new app called Loopt Mix. Warning: Finding love the Loopt way may involves waking at 7 a.m. in a strange bed, pulling ...READ»

The Age-Old Tradition of Smartphone Hookups

It was way back in 2006 when Palm showed us how to beam our love to strangers using the quaintly unconnected Palm V. But since then, a whole litany of apps have made the quest for strange much more direct. Match.com has had success ...READ»

Loopt Sneaks Background Multitasking Into Its iPhone App

Loopt, the location-based friend-finder, has just snuck an amazing little bonus feature into its iPhone app: It works in the background. As Apple detractors are fond of pointing out: The iPhone can't do this. What's happening?READ»

Glympse: The Coolest Thing Your Smartphone Can Do

That's not a title I toss out lightly, but Glympse deserves it. Since smartphones first made Google maps mobile, no single application has offered so much practical functionality. Not only that--Glympse might be the only one that ...READ»

Top Apps

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The Top Mobile Apps

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AT&T Rolls Out Orwellian "FamilyMap" Feature

There are plenty of voluntary ways to use your GPS-enabled phone to locate your friends in real time: Loopt, Google Latitude, or a simple text message will usually do. But if you're more into the constant-surveillance kind of thing, ...READ»

Google Latitude Makes History

Yesterday Google [GOOG] announced a nifty mapping feature called Latitude, soon to be available for every major mobile phone platform that supports Google Maps. Latitude keeps track of your friends like so many tagged woodland ...READ»

Steve Job Announces Apple iPhone 3G and New Applications

At Apple's annual World Wide Developer's Conference, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G. It features 3G data speed, GPS support, a better battery, and some design improvements. I would point to the fact the 8 gb model will only ...READ»