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Google’s Attempt At Location Based Mobile Social Networking

by Jason Wilk on February 4, 2009

Meet Google Latitude, Google’s attempt at mobile social networking, giving you the ability to see where your friends are and what they are doing at any time (see Loopt). I’ve yet to adopt to location-based mobile social networking myself, as it’s time consuming and at the end of the day, I reallly don’t need to see a point on a map where my buddies are. How does everyone else feel about it?

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by John Jorgensen on November 12, 2008

Loopt is reported to have been valuated at $500 million by investment bank Allen & Co.
Loopt has hired Allen & Co., either for a sale or to raise another round of funding. Best guess points to the latter.
The company has raised $13.3 million to date.
Once the big social networks (MySpace & Facebook) decide to get into Loopt’s location-based social space, will they develop the technology in-house, or is Loopt an acquisition target down the road? They’re clearly doing something right.

by Jason Wilk on November 7, 2008

Friend View is Nokia’s experimental mobile location and micro-blogging service that also works via standard web.
The application uses the built-in GPS, network triangulation, or manual updates to decide where you are.
Once logged-in, it pinpoints you as well as all your friends who are on the service.
Instead of Twitter’s ‘What Are You Doing’ question, Nokia asks ‘What’s Up’.
I’m guessing this will roll out in Japan first as a test.
With Nokia as the smart phone leader, and also having the power to move this app onto every deck they manufacture, will this become an immediate threat to mobile social networks like Loopt and ever-growing Twitter?

by Jason Wilk on October 8, 2008

Earthcomber owns the patent for ‘System and method for locating and notifying a user of a person, place or thing having attributes matching thr user’s stated preferences’
The patent is legit and Loopt should be worried. TechCrunch is merely a partner in Loopt’s new ‘Featured Communites’ section that lets you find other TechCrunch readers, so they need no worry.
Arrington is not happy about the pbulicity stunt from Earthcomber CEO James Brady who just wanted to ‘get mike’s attention’.
The link to the patent is here.

by Jason Wilk on October 6, 2008

As Blackberry gets ready to launch their Applications Center, BerryStore.com comes along and tries to get its foot in the door first.
BerryStore offers a slew of great applications for Blackberrys already found on the iPhone, like Loopt, Twitter, and tons more.
It wil be interesting to see how they survive once Blackberry opens their own app store shortly. We have seen app companies like PlusMo for the iPhone that offer a range of applications within one app.