Loopt - Social Network taken to the next level
This Silicon Valley start-up has taken social networking and geolocalisation to a new dimension, the mobile phones. This Boost Mobile System (only available in the US) not only provides the social networks with all its usual facets (communities, IM, blogging, etc.) but it traces each member via GPS in real time on a map. On the spot you can chat with your friend near you, everybody knows when the other is the neighbourhood or happens to be in the club that you thought about going.
“Using location-based technologies, Loopt lets you know where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. Loopt even lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re nearby so that you never miss an opportunity to meet. Loopt also lets you journal your life so that your friends can see what you’re up to. “
Now you are not only being myspaced, facebooked, digged, chatted-up but also traced via GPS. You may like it or not but it is definitely interesting from an entrepreneurial view.
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Tags: Mobile, m-commerce, social networking
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