Topic: Loopt Inc.

A Screen Where Everyone Knows Your Name

Social mapping technology grows up a bit.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»

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»

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»

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»

Mobile Remote Control

Before long, your cell phone will also be your wallet, keys, and garage-door opener. These mobile applications transform cell phones into life management devices.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»

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»

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»

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»

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

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

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 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»

The Cell Sell

Mobile advertising -- expected to rise tenfold by 2011, to $14 billion -- is getting more and more creative.READ»

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Top Apps

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The Top Mobile Apps

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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»

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»

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»