Social mapping service Loopt will soon be available on select Verizon Wireless phones. Starting next month, certain Verizon wireless users will be able to find friends in a location-based manner, share information and status updates with each other. Loopt also has geo-tagging photo options.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]As the Loopt service supports AIM buddies, Verizon users with Loopt on their phones will be able to connect and share with their AOL friends as well. While a number of social-mapping services have emerged in the past year or so, this particular partnership between Verizon and Loopt allows Verizon to provide additional social capabilities directly through its own wireless network, between Verizon users as well as Loopt friends.