Mark Jacobstein, EVP Corporate Development and Marketing, describes Loopt social networking application for mobile devices and the development issues of permissions, safety, and working with operators and other third party developers. He also discusses the various changes in social behavior that software like this are likely to bring.

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Daniel H. Steinberg runs dimsumthinking.com and is former editor-in-chief of java.net.