Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via
detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends
connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to
people, places and events. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged
photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online
social networks, communities and blogs. Loopt was designed with user privacy
at its core and offers a variety of effective and intuitive privacy
controls.
Loopt®, a revolutionary social-mapping and communication service, in coordination with NonStop Riot, a leading music marketing agency, announced today a new service that lets music fans follow their favorite artist as they tour around the country.
If you happen to be into bands such as Shwayze, Chromeo, 3oh!3, The Submarines, The Secret Handshake, A Cursive Memory, Meiko, Valencia, The Medic Droid or Bayside, you’re in luck. Now you can pinpoint their exact location when they’re on tour this summer using the location-based mobile social network Loopt.
Best overall application: Loopt, a company offering location-based applications for users of various carriers, including Sprint and Verizon. Loopt just struck deals to access massive amounts of GPS data.
The mobile service company Loopt, based in Mountain View, Calif., helps people find their friends and see what they are doing on a map on their mobile phone. It will use Facebook Connect so its users do not have to re-enter their connections to the friends they want to track.
