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Loopt Mix’s launch was so successful that Sam, Nick, and Alok, Loopt’s co-founders, had to do some late night/morning work to upgrade our Loopt Mix hardware so that it could handle all the excitement.

Loopt Mix is now in the Top 50 free apps in the App Store!

Loopt Mix—the service that introduces you to the people nearby that you wish you knew—is growing up! Starting today, Loopt Mix is available for the iPhone or iPod touch as its own application in the Apple App Store.

We’ve decided to make Loopt Mix a stand-alone application so that we can pack it with the features you’ve been asking us for, such as real-time, in-app chat, the ability to upload multiple photos, and much more.

Since launching Loopt Mix last year, we’ve received an overwhelmingly positive response from the Loopt community: like Brad, who found a surfing buddy on Loopt Mix, or Topher, who was reunited with a long-lost friend on Loopt Mix. Loopt Mix is a simple and fun way to connect with others nearby in the real world who share your interests. It’s ideal for those who are looking for new friends to go to events with, getting to know someone over coffee, or new to town—almost anything you can imagine.

Feature highlights include:

- Free messaging with people around the country on Loopt Mix!
- Browse profiles of interesting people near you.
- Real-time, in-app chat with push notifications.
- Post multiple photos and status updates to introduce yourself.
- Use likes / tags and search filters to connect in the real world.

Try it out for yourself. Go to the App Store on your iPhone or iPod touch and search “Loopt Mix.” It’s free – just create a profile to start meeting the people you wish you knew. You can click here to download it now too.

Like previous versions of Loopt Mix, we don't show you the exact location of other members of the Loopt community, just approximately how close they are. You're always in full control—you can easily change your privacy settings.

Leave a comment and let us know how you like it.

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Tweeting with Loopt is fun—especially when it helps you win a sweet prize. That’s why we launched the Tweet with Loopt contest, where we asked you to submit your most entertaining caption from your favorite place. From the many entries we received, we let you decide which one was the most entertaining. The votes are in and the winner is… Zane Revai:

Thank you to all of you in the Loopt community who participated in the Tweet with Loopt game! We received a bunch of highly entertaining captions from your favorite places.

It was tough, but we managed to narrow down the field to the 10 most entertaining tweets (and had a lot of fun doing it our all-hands meeting). Now it’s up to YOU to choose the winner of the $1,000 Apple Gift Certificate by vote:

Vote early because we'll be closing the polls in a week (September 23 at 11:59 PM PST).

To link Loopt to Twitter to tweet with photos and places straight from your phone, just log-in to your Loopt account online at www.loopt.com and click on the Twitter icon to get started or click here.

The world around you never stops moving so Loopt should provide you with a service that doesn’t either. You’re constantly running errands, answering calls, meeting up with friends, etc. – you need your mobile phone to update your location in real-time while you’re in motion. Loopt supports location updating via its Always-On Location Service even when you’re not running the Loopt application on many platforms and our users love it. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Loopt is providing this separate, optional Always-On Location Service for the iPhone^TM to provide you with information on the “now” as well as the “here”.

This is the first service for the iPhone^TM to do this – Loopt continues to push the boundaries of location technologies to provide you with the best experiences possible. Always-on location is incredibly valuable because it gives you and your friends highly relevant, actionable information. We are confident you’ll enjoy the experience it offers.

We will provide this separate Always-On Location Service to a limited set of Loopt users on a trial basis in order to help test-drive it. If you’re interested in applying to join the trial, click here. We can only grant access to 5,000 of you, so get going. If you’re admitted into the trial, we’ll make sure some of your friends that also apply get in as well. Just e-mail blog@loopt.com with their e-mail addresses.

p.s. - Please let us know about your experience by sending your comments, ideas, and questions to feedback@loopt.com. Keep in touch with us because we need your feedback to continue to improve our service.