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The line between what Brightkite offers and what Twitter offers their respective communities is arguably very thin. Both offer fantastic microblogging features including updates and notifications via SMS, the Web, and APIs. Until somewhat recently, however, only Brightkite offered another layer ontop of these features that really separated it from Twitter without question. Geolocation. Brightkite…

I’m still on a Brightkite break. I’m not really sure how to quantify my feelings about Brightkite without sounding pedantic or somehow aloof. The people that work there are, no doubt, extremely concerned with the community that uses it and, from what I’ve seen, go to great lengths to keep the service up and running.…

Jacob Burke, like me, is taking a Brightkite break. His reasons are very close to my own. He writes: "There are things about the site that had me hooked for quite a while. But, I am starting to notice that it gets annoying to update my status on Brightkite and then go and check Twitter…

I’ve decided to take a short Brightkite break. I have a laundry lost of things that I would love to see Brightkite do (search my site for Brightkite) and it has been a while since they’ve done any updates. Presumably because they’ve been in the middle of a business deal (which is understandable). I have…

Party time is over, so I feel it safe to write a formal, public request for some of the things I really need from Brightkite. I realize that some of the things I’m going to ask for are probably not that high a priority for Brightkite, but I thought that by making a list like…

Today Brightkite, the location-based social network, has updated their page layout to, once again, bring search back to the top of the page.  This time, however, they’ve added two new types of search to their original places search; people and posts. I’m very pleased to see this addition to Brightkite so early-on in their development…

Brightkite, in their infinite generosity, sent me a few stickers that I could give away here on my site.  When I got them in the mail yesterday I immediately began to think of a fun way to give them away, and I think I’ve come up with an easy and fun way. Photo credit: Chris…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

For the unaware, a 404 page is a page you typically see when the page you’re trying to reach simply does not exist.  In geek speak, 404 literally means "Page Not Found".  Here is an example 404 page on my site. My 404 page consists of a simple message asking you to contact me to…

A few months ago I was invited to join Brightkite.  At the time I wasn’t too keen on giving up my exact location all the time, nor did I want to switch from Twitter to Brightkite and start all over again.  For any of you reading this, the way Brightkite fits into my daily routine…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An acquisition is always a failure: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul…

 I’ve got a new nights and weekends project and its name is Nilai. Nilai is a simple bookmarking service and over the last few weeks I’ve been having a lot of fun working on it in my spare time. In fact, I have found it so valuable to me that it is now my homepage…

This might get a little long in the tooth so you may want to top-up that beverage. Google has run me over like a freight train. Over the last few weeks I’ve been living on it instead of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare. In fact, I made the prediction that Google could replace many of the most…

Foursquare is currently winning in the check-in services space but I believe it is still anybody’s game because there is still a lot of work to do. Even though I "know" people that work at Gowalla and their sense of design is practicallyunparalleledin the check-in service space – Foursquare simply works better and that is…

I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I’ve done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, WordPress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to and care about. This is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Here is how David Karp, founder of Tumblr,…

Gowalla went and did exactly what I thought Brightkite should have done. I sincerely hope it works out well for them.

A feature that I’ve wanted from Twitter ever since I ditched Brightkite in April 2009 has finally been released – @mention notifications. Huzzah. Side note: Remember Brightkite? Oh what could have been. /via Eric Brophy.

Kyle Slattery pulls a bit of a yarn about the current state of geocoding in his world as he experienced it on a recent trip to Chicago. Kyle and I are nearly always on the same page and with this particular subject it isn’t any different. The good bits are in woven into the fabric…

Since I’m posting mobile photos and notes to this site rather than a third-party service I figured I’d make those pages a little more condusive to viewing on a mobile platform. Also, to make my life a little easier, I’ve also set up a few little scripts to do things like Twitter a link to…

New York is easily one of my favorite cities. The last time I was there I had the privilege of eating some really delicious Thai food, drink at an authentic Irish Pub, and scarf down 4,000 calories worth of White House burgers. Where else can you do that? The Thai food that we had was…

It has been years since I’ve read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and so I’ve decided, even though I think I’m a little crazy, to re-read the series. I’ve just finished The Fellowship of the Ring last night, and so hear are some of my thoughts about the first book. I’m no literary scholar…

I just Twittered (well, actually Brightkited) a link to this post on Henry David Thoreau’s journal – the entry from December 20, 1851 that I thought was particularly timely for me. "Say the thing with which you labor. It is a waste of time for the writer to use his talents merely. Be faithful to…

Fluid, the site-specific browser that I use for things like Google Reader, Brightkite, Gmail, and also named one of The Best of 2008 on this site, has been updated to version 0.9.5. Reading the changelog you can see that this is a fairly large release when you weigh it against previous versions. You can also…

You may have heard the news (since both Twitter and Pownce is flooded with links to Leah Culver’s blog post) that Pownce is shutting down on December 15th and that a few of the team members; namely Leah Culver and Mike Malone – are joining Six Apart. One could sit back and try to analyze…

"Use on mobile phones and sites you use to keep up to date and others in the loop." And I thought the llama suggestion was going to be tough to write?  What the heck does this suggestion actually mean?  It isn’t like I was able to ask who suggested it, because it was suggested anonymously.…

Or, lack thereof. In May 2004 I wrote down my procedure for making sure my email correspondance made sense, didn’t have any spelling or grammar errors, and generally got my point across. In January of 2005 I quipped that sending email at 4:00am after working all day probably wasn’t the best time to write anything…

The above photo was posted to Flickr from my iPhone a few minutes ago.  I wanted to show off, in all its glory, the new desktop picture I’m using on both my Macbook and external monitor courtesy of Mark Bixby. But this brings up something that I’m completely torn over.  Where should I post my mobile photos?…

Simultaneously testing out cross posting to my site, Flickr, and now Brightkite (just for fun) and showing off my wine barrel trash can.