We at TechCrunch expect a rapid expansion of the market for mobile social networks. And with the iPhone’s success as one of the main catalysts of the development, services like Facebook Mobile , MySpace Mobile , loopt (which even offers a TechCrunch-branded version ), aka-aki , and others keep cropping up.
One of the most recent social mobile networks catching our attenti...... [Show More]
Apple clearly has high hopes for the location-based social network loopt . It has shown off loopt’s iPhone application at conferences, featured it on its displays and even made it central in one of the new iPhone commercials . But loopt hasn’t yet reached its potential on the device, as everyone is still trying to figure out the best way to do location-based networking. It’s a ...... [Show More]
Article publié originellement chez Fred Cavazza , le 17 novembre, 2008
Suite à un précédent billet qui faisait le point sur mes prédictions 2008 , je me lance une nouvelle fois dans le périlleux exercice des prédictions.
1/ Montée en puissance des plateformes sociales BtoB
Ça a commencé avec la consécration de Yammer au Techcrunch50 , ça se poursuit avec le lancement de...... [Show More]
It’s been a big year for location-based applications and services. The release of Apple’s 3G iPhone and Apps Store has given millions of consumers their first access to LBS products. And the movement is being further pushed along by T-Mobile’s G1 and other touchscreen smart phones that use the LBS-enabling Android operating system.
Next year, look for established players to con...... [Show More]
Mig33 , which offers services like instant messaging and cheap calls on mobile phones , is launching a new version today that makes its services more customizable, international and social network-like. It’s also releasing numbers showing impressive growth.
The Burlingame, Calif. company is less well known, at least in the United States, than social networking sites like Facebook and M...... [Show More]
Mobile social networking company loopt is launching an API for third-party developers in 2009, and are currently looking to raise a third round of financing –they raised $13.3 million in the first two rounds–to fund international expansion.
Chief executive Sam Altman revealed that the company plans to move beyond providing a single application into developing a platform. Part of ...... [Show More]
Over the last 6 months we have been watching an amazing transition in the Web 2.0 world we live in. Both Wikipedia and Tim O’Reilly refer to Web 2.0 as business revolution on the Internet, mostly referring to communities and collaboration platforms. We see Web 2.0 moving to be an interconnection of web services where content and services are delivered at the point and time where users want t...... [Show More]
TechCrunch are congratulating themselves for hooking themselves up to the loopt social network system, arguing that they correctly anticipated its success. The fact that Apple have recently done an ad promoting the loopt service, though, has clearly helped!
Did Apple promote the loopt system because of its clear advantage over Facebook? Frankly, we doubt it! On the one hand Facebook is so eas...... [Show More]
Well it might as well be tied down and torn in two. How else do you expect me to reattach it when the legs just keep poppin’ off with an unbridled fury of these here links.
youfikus portfolio - The name says it all. It’s yofik-errific 3D illustration with a bunch o’ color.
Toshiba TimeSculpture - If you watched this on the wall in the conference room while screaming - That...... [Show More]
Steigende Zugriffe auf die für Mobiltelefone optimierten Seiten und mit allen wichtigen Funktionen ausgestattete iPhone-App likationen : Social Networks entfleuchen dem Desktop und werden mobil. Zumindest die internationalen. Die deutschen Netzwerke tun sich weiterhin schwer mit der Mobilität.
Speziell auf den mobilen Gebrauch ausgelegte locationbasierte Social Networks wie loopt legen im G...... [Show More]
Alright, so this blog post comes courtesy of many “geek” chats I’ve had with my buddy Michael Denton of Contributing Comments . More nights than I care to admit, Denton and I have glossed on about the pros and cons of various cell phones across carriers. We’ve duked it out over features, operating systems, and even the value of open-source, oh so geeky!
Now, recently ...... [Show More]
““Bottom-line: friends don’t want to be found - if they did, they would call you. We wasted in total over $5M for this piece of shit.”” - From the comments in this TechCrunch post about loopt (dodgeball clone for iPhone, etc).
And, btw I disagree with with the “not being found” part (um, note to anyone else in this space: checkins should be tied to invites to ...... [Show More]
loopt transforms your mobile phone into a social compass:
- Connect with friends and get alerted when they are neartby
- Share your location, photos and comments with friends and social networks
- Explore places and events recommended by friends
loopt is supported by over 100 mobiles including the iPhone and Blackberry!
It looks like an interesting application, read more about it or v...... [Show More]
It looks as if loopt may be looking for an out — or more likely, an insane new round of funding. The location-based social network for mobile devices has supposedly hired the investment band Allen & Co. to find a potential sale or investment partner, TechCrunch is reporting .
But what’s crazy is the apparent valuation Allen & Co. is putting loopt at: Over $500 million. Now, I like...... [Show More]
Lately, a portion of iPhone television ads have featured local search applications. The other day we pointed out the UrbanSpoon ad. Now there is an ad for loopt , the social media app that lets you see where your friends are and what they’re doing (provided that they have the application).
As we’ve voiced our premise that local and mobile are inherently related, the th...... [Show More]
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