Comments on: Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location On iPhone At Their Peril

By: TechStars » Seed capital and mentorship for startups

TechStars » Seed capital and mentorship for startups — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:58:58 +0000

[...] Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location on iPhone At Their Peril (techcrunch.com) [...]

By: Location Awareness « Purrfection’s Weblog

Location Awareness « Purrfection’s Weblog — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:23:27 +0000

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....eir-peril/ [...]

By: saç ekimi

saç ekimi — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:39:45 +0000

I believe the features you mention above, such as finding out if a friend is nearby, will be commoditized very rapidly. In the end, the services that will be widely adopted will be the ones that provide real value to the users in addition to these commodity features……

By: perde

perde — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:18:00 +0000

evet good

By: Look out - Netlog releases GPS-enabled iPhone app for its 33 million users

Look out - Netlog releases GPS-enabled iPhone app for its 33 million users — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:05:34 +0000

[...] probably kill off a lot of the startups in that arena fairly swiftly. But it has yet to do so, leaving the way open for sites like Netlog. (App store link) CrunchBase Information Netlog Information provided by [...]

By: Telecom Giant Vodafone Gets Into Location Based Social Networking With Pocket Life

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:01:21 +0000

[...] in the US. Pocket Life is getting a late start, but with giants like Facebook and MySpace largely sitting on the sidelines in the race to take social networks mobile, it still has a fighting chance, especially given its [...]

By: perde

perde — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:40:08 +0000

good

By: Loopt Snags AT&T, Now Available On Every U.S. Carrier

Loopt Snags AT&T, Now Available On Every U.S. Carrier — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:23:51 +0000

[...] We’re big believers that mobile is the future of social networking. Loopt and a handful of other brave startups are pushing the envelope on mobile social networks while the big guys, Facebook and MySpace, sit on the sidelines. [...]

By: Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You.

Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You. — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:31:33 +0000

[...] of location/presence features on the iPhone and other platforms. We said this summer that they ignore location at their peril, and we still believe [...]

By: Loopt = Creepy? « Boot Tech

Loopt = Creepy? « Boot Tech — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:53:13 +0000

[...] i digress, the big question I ask again is, why is this app special? As Techcrunch themselves say, there is no reason facebook and myspace shouldn’t be doing this. And once [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » iPhoneがあるならモバイル版ソーシャルネットワークのTechCrunch Looptに参加しよう！

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:13:40 +0000

[...] 既にLooptに参加しているならMixの設定でTechCrunchネットワークに入ることができる。これまで既存の大規模ソーシャルネットワークはモバイル端末の位置認識機能を考慮してこなかった。これはおそらくプライバシーの問題もあるのだろう。しかしこれは、既存ソーシャルネットワークのアキレス腱ともなり得ると考えている。モバイル版ソーシャルネットワークでの新たな機能が人気を集めれば、既存サービスでの扱いも変わっていくと思われる。 CrunchBase Information Loopt Information provided by CrunchBase [...]

By: Got An iPhone? Join The TechCrunch Loopt Mobile Social Network And Never Be Lonely Again

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:05:47 +0000

[...] ignored location awareness on mobile devices, probably over privacy concerns, which I believe is their Achilles Heel. Look for that to change as this new crop of mobile social networks gets traction CrunchBase [...]

By: The Scripts Zone » The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:16:50 +0000

[...] of the big American social networks have added location-aware services yet, but they’re coming. Expect them to eclipse several if not all of these services after learning from them. CrunchBase [...]

By: The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone

The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:19:09 +0000

By: JerseySteve

JerseySteve — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:35:51 +0000

Facebook, Lacks behind myspace on the iPhone Application, as far as I’m concerned. Facebook, lacks the ability to see your friend requests on the application. Myspace needs improvements to the photo area. the photo album view only allows you to view 30 photos.

By: Loopt Could be Good Some Day — Not Today | AppCraver

Loopt Could be Good Some Day — Not Today | AppCraver — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:42:29 +0000

[...] Arrington of Techcrunch is correct in saying that GPS could be one of the killer apps of Social Networking, an that the heavyweights such as Myspace and Facebook ignore it at their own [...]

By: Collective Wanderings; Take 3 | Collective Thoughts

Collective Wanderings; Take 3 | Collective Thoughts — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:26:02 +0000

[...] MySpace/Facebook ignore location on iPhone at their peril -TechCrunch [...]

By: NGT News: Facebook Connect, Cryptex Phone, Virtual Boardrooms

NGT News: Facebook Connect, Cryptex Phone, Virtual Boardrooms — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:02:42 +0000

[...] Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location On iPhone At Their Peril [Tech Crunch] The future of social networks is location, so that fact that Facebook and MySpace failed to incorporate LBS into their iPhone apps looks like a major misstep. [...]

By: All About .me - The Great Domain Name Debacle

All About .me - The Great Domain Name Debacle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:21:42 +0000

[...] With all of the hype surrounding the .me registrations, I couldn’t help but wonder what good domains, if any, were still available for registering. I started plugging away at the Go Daddy bulk registration tool and realized within the span of a couple minutes that my searching for single word .me domains was futile. Moving on, I brainstormed two-word .me domains using Google and stumbled across a gem (at least that’s what I thought having recently read about the need for an iphone social network on TC). [...]

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:05:29 +0000

I just registered peoplenear.me half thinking the registration wasn’t going to go through, but it did. Not really sure what I’m going to do with it but the idea is cool.

By: Facebook misses “the next big thing” | LaRive

Facebook misses “the next big thing” | LaRive — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:26:16 +0000

[...] it doesn’t seen like Loopt is doing well now. Facebook still have a good chance to catch up. →Link ⊕ Related [...]

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:06 +0000

Many Blackberry smartphones have had a TRUE GPS receiver for several years. A Blackberry with GPS is nothing new, and SOME carriers actually even let you use it (i.e. Sprint/Nextel doesn’t restrict it at all on their Blackberry devices). That other carriers DO restrict (citing baseless “customer privacy and security concerns”) the hardware that is IN THE DEVICE and SHOULD BE FREE to use really ought to get more attention. It comes up every couple months but interest seems to die out quickly, I guess because no Blackberry is a “cool” as an iPhone and no Blackberry gets as much fawning from the media as does the iPhone.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:11:23 +0000

A while ago Loopt announced a deal with CBS Mobile to transmit LB advertisements to Sprint/Nextel and Boost Mobile cellphones.

By: sintesi digitale - Location awareness e privacy

sintesi digitale - Location awareness e privacy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:51:18 +0000

[...] del social networking abbiano interpretato le possibilità offerte dal nuovo terminale Apple, è TechCrunch, in un interessante articolo di Michael Arrington. Al di là di considerazioni, tutto sommato [...]

By: MySpace, Facebook and the coming “moss web” « future facts blog

MySpace, Facebook and the coming “moss web” « future facts blog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:16:54 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington looks at the barriers: MySpace and Facebook are sitting on the sidelines while these new networks [...]