links for 2008-07-16

Loopt, a location based social network with an iPhone client, digging themselves out of a hole. They created an autoinvite service based on your address book, but without a confirmation page, which meant many people had messages sent to unintended people

Amazing sales figures, despite the queues and the activation problems. A million new phones in three days, plus 10 million app downloads is a lot of people.

the other side of the loopt experience, unintended invites including personal phone number (new in this case) sent to people from her address book, software companies should be less cavalier with the data their new customers give them.

Very nice looking app for managing rss reader, which pairs with Google Reader, quite tempted by this even though NetNewsWire is free