Thursday, October 30, 2008

Loopt - Mobile social network

Today watched a video about loopt in youtube. I always felt that social networking sites like facebook, orkut are very powerful tools for connecting with people through internet. But this one seems to be even more interesting..

Loopt is a way of connecting with your friends through mobile. Loopt uses GPS and related data to display the location of a user’s friends along with their presence status (available, away, etc) on maps and lists. Users will be able to request alerts when friends are within a certain distance, send messages to groups of friends within a certain distance and soon will be able to tag and blog physical locations in a way that’s accesible to friends through Loopt.

This one is freely available with most of the carriers and devices in North America.

Read more about loopt and other players in this promising business arena in techcrunch.

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