YC Startup Loopt Launches Location Applications Platform

[vlad]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/16/loopt-launches-mobile-social-networking-application-platform/

[sama]

Special invite to news.yc'ers to apply--let me know if you want to build something

[emmett → sama]

Congrats on launching the platform Sam - I remember you talking about that back in the summer of 05 for Radiate.

Loopt has come a long way!

[sspencer → sama]

I sent an email since the link to submit was broken for me this afternoon. I'd love to try building something.

smspencer.kernel (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Hope I can try it out!

[pius → sama]

I'm really psyched about this, nice job on opening this up.

[danw]

I'm thinking of an app that pushes location data from loopt into fireeagle

[danw]

It was a serious suggestion. FireEagle let's you control the privacy of your location data. You can specify the precision of data provided to consumer apps, eg country, city, co-ords.

In this case loopt can provide fireeagle with exact co-ordinates and fireeagle can forward only your city to dopplr, and which neighbourhood you are in to your facebook/dodgeball friends.

[eVizitei]

I've had some thoughts in the past about a couple different mobile applications that would benefit from location data. It looks like the dev platform these guys are building could be the answer.

[dima]

How does Loopt make money?

[chaostheory]

to me Loopt is awesome - there's just one problem (that most mobile apps have): it doesn't support my phone

( yes I'm on Sprint =( )