Re:Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad
by DaniFong on Sunday November 09, 2008 @03:52AM
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Loopt is strictly permissions based, and built to be secure from the ground up. You could, for example install it, along with a couple friends, to help locate each other at a concert or some big festival (this is really handy), and shut off broadcasting, or just ditch it later. It doesn't need to violate privacy; you have the ability to broadcast your location when you want to be found, and only to whom you want to be found by.
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Do you not realise just how much fun it is to stand at one end of a stadium frantically waving for half an hour with your cellphone, trying to locate other people you know?
Talk about taking the fun out of it!
Re:Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad
by DaniFong on Sunday November 09, 2008 @05:26AM
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It's not one of my favorite games, I have to say. :-p
Re:Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad
by dc2k08 on Sunday November 09, 2008 @11:25PM
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i can see how it would be useful, especially in work related sectors like taxi-services, hospitals etc. i would always dread if myself and my girl-friend had it that she would ask me why i had turned it off at such a time and grow suspicious...not that i am cheating on her or that i have a girlfriend...but its the sort of present that if i got it from one, i would break accidentally. great ap for parents and kids though. not great for cool kids.