Loopt, Under the Radar's Overall Audience Choice Winner

Posted: November 17th, 2006 | 7 Comments »

Loopt, a mobile social mapping (i.e. spatial annotation and buddy finder) application, won the Under the Radar’s Overall Audience Choice Winner.

Loopt show you where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. loopt also lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re nearby so that you never miss an opportunity to meet.

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Relation to my thesis: Fascinated by the popular demand of social mapping mobile application with the current failed-state of LBS. Similar to WaveMarket (2.5 years ago), Navizon, Plazes, Meetro, and Jaiku.


7 Comments on “Loopt, Under the Radar's Overall Audience Choice Winner”

  1. 1 Matt ochsendorf said at 3:22 pm on November 23rd, 2006:

    Please contact Magggie immediately regarding the tickets at the wamsmiles email.

  2. 2 jay said at 4:56 am on December 12th, 2006:

    Matt Oschsendorf, you are a huge scamer. I cannot believe you took my $200 for a Southwest Airlines voucher and never mailed it to me.

  3. 3 Michael Wells said at 6:33 pm on December 23rd, 2006:

    Matt Ochsendorf is definitly a HUGE SCAMMER. He also ripped me off by saying he was going to send me 2 Southwest Green Passes, if I loaded up a GreenDot Money Card for HIM.
    I filed a complaint with San Jose Police, Along with the FBI, and IC3.ORG

  4. 4 Bill said at 11:27 pm on January 16th, 2007:

    Michael & Jay,

    You are not alone – many, many people have been ripped off by this vicious, ruthless and very clever scammer Mathias Ochsendorf, alias Alan Sasafahi, Rajiv, Hop Chuen.

    He took me for $180 on two supposed American Airlines Incentive Flight Vouchers which were never received and which probably don’t exist. I uploaded the money on to a Green Dot Money Pak. He then proceeded to transfer and remove the money from his CardOnePlus account the next morning.

    He e-mailed me a picture of his driver’s licence and his telephone number exactly as he has done to many other victims to gain their confidence. He also called me and left a message.

    He apparently has been selling American Airlines vouchers, Southwest Airlines vouchers, United Airlines vouchers and advertises on all the free online classified sites like Craigslist, Classifiedster, community papers.

    After realizing I had been ripped off I emailed this piece of S*** and called him every dirty name in the book. His reply made me realize that this guy is probably one of the worst online criminals out there.

    I contacted Green Dot and CardOnePlus and they advised me that he is connected to some account in Singapore and that he has “compromised” a large number of people who made these transactions on money cards. What is even more threatening is that he brags about his accomplishments and admits that he is not only in the travel scam business but also has multiple Merchant names on Ebay which he must be using to sell items such as electronics which are never delivered.

    In his language he shows no respect for anyone in North America and gave away that he could possibly be of Middle Eastern decent by using what appeared to be a Middle Eastern language quote.

    This guy is very bad, very clever and very meticulous and thorough in how he operates his scams. It is probably going to a difficult task to stop him let alone catch and prosecute him.

    This loss is a reminder that you can never be too careful when making online purchases.

  5. 5 Cris Donnelly said at 10:02 pm on April 2nd, 2007:

    He also goes under names like Andrew Bryson, and Bobert Ancini. He gets fake emails under gmail. He has scammed Cardex in the US and Virtual Money. These are two card carriers in the prepaid business.

  6. 6 OP said at 4:41 pm on June 1st, 2007:

    Also goes by KENJI SUKIZU. Beware of him on Craigslist selling Delta Vouchers!

  7. 7 alex and liane said at 9:49 am on June 5th, 2007:

    He have also stolen the identity of Angel leon molina and scammed us for vouchers. He finds images on Flickr to back up his stories then sets up the email accounts. If anyone ever gets the opportunity to catch up with him, we’d love to join you chop his balls off.

    thanks.