Special invite to news.yc'ers to apply--let me know if you want to build something

Congrats on launching the platform Sam - I remember you talking about that back in the summer of 05 for Radiate.

Loopt has come a long way!

I sent an email since the link to submit was broken for me this afternoon. I'd love to try building something.

smspencer.kernel (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Hope I can try it out!

I'm really psyched about this, nice job on opening this up.

I'm thinking of an app that pushes location data from loopt into fireeagle

It was a serious suggestion. FireEagle let's you control the privacy of your location data. You can specify the precision of data provided to consumer apps, eg country, city, co-ords.

In this case loopt can provide fireeagle with exact co-ordinates and fireeagle can forward only your city to dopplr, and which neighbourhood you are in to your facebook/dodgeball friends.

I've had some thoughts in the past about a couple different mobile applications that would benefit from location data. It looks like the dev platform these guys are building could be the answer.

How does Loopt make money?

to me Loopt is awesome - there's just one problem (that most mobile apps have): it doesn't support my phone

( yes I'm on Sprint =( )