As you’re looking for facebook material and sites, be certain to use everyone of the sources available….

Or as we here at Ycombinator call it: The Emporer’s New Clothes.

Let’s face it, this Ycombinator seed money thing has gotten out of hand. I first did it to meet runaway cheerleaders, chicks who like malt liquor, and girls with serious Daddy issues.

I never thought anyone outside of Boston would have ever considered this to be real. Altman wanted $15k, and I’ll be damned if we didn’t give it to him.

My bad.

How do we know this?

1. Ever meet Mr. Kelsey in person. I’m not saying the guy is a child molester, I’m saying a lot of child molester’s I know say the guy really creeps them out.

2. He went to prom with my mother. It was weird.

It’s still a lonely place for Loopt users here in Manhattan.

Easy! Download Loopt to your iPhone 3G. Loopt is so damn popular right now; it is even more popular than Facebook and MySpace iphone apps! Download Loopt and turn your iPhone 3G phone into a social compass and start showing people the wonders of mobile…

That being said, the inference in this post that Loopt is suddenly out performing Facebook and MySpace apps is laughable. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Facebook app has dominated the free apps list since the iPhone was released. At some point that app is bound to reach a certain saturation point.

I don’t blame you for trying to push it though, even though you admit it’s still “rough around the edges”. You stand to personally benefit from its success.

All Facebook needs to do is add Location identification into is existing application and like Steve Jobs says “BAM” + “BOOM” … Loopt, Brightkite etc, are obsolete and out of business. Why not share your location with the friends you already have on the most active social network ….

Finally …. Loopt may have the most downloads – but how many removals! It would be interesting to see how many people DELETED application and the actual amount of time a user has it on their phone before they DELETED it.

…and this is NEWSWORTHY?

Aside from M.A.’s obvious financial interest in Loopt’s success, why should the readers care? This reads more like an internal rah rah Email to keep up morale than anything else.

WOW!

Looks like you’re in a panic. Loopt not doing well, and you write as though they are.

Very, eh, Soviet of you.

1. Shilling TWICE for struggling company in the same day: $85 dollars.

2. Loopt and TC Getting SUED for patent infringement by Earthcomber: PRICELESS

Apple’s iPhone apps cannot run in the background! You have to manually launch all the apps and manually make updates… one app at a time.

90% of all the social iPhone apps, especially the geo-aware social apps, are USELESS until the iPhone can run them in the background & let the user multitask.

Imagine an iPhone alerting you when your geo-aware social network buddies are in your area w/o you having to log in to check anything — NOW THAT’S A REAL APP (privacy & battery issues aside).

This is not Loopt’s fault of course but things could be so much more interesting if the iPhone supported multitasking & background apps out of the box. The way things are right now, you can’t even listen to your own music while running the apps — what a mess.

Now RIM’s BlackBerries & Loopt that’s another story…

Bear in mind I live and work in Silicon Valley (Mtn View no less) and if I can’t get my friends into Loopt, I can’t see the public at large going for it.

Location services are cool but pretty useless and the wow factor wears off *very* quickly. I used to work for Airflash/Webraska back in 2000-2003 and we had the same problem then (we also had the added barrier of inflexible carriers). Attitudes have not changed that much in 8 years.