Comments on: The way Brightkite fits

By: Pam Buda

Pam Buda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:56:05 +0000

Would love to try Brighkite per your offer. The geographic layer could really tie in well to my real estate business here in the Sonoma California wine country.

By: Brightkite’s smart “profile not found” pages by Colin Devroe

Brightkite’s smart “profile not found” pages by Colin Devroe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:23:25 +0000

[...] Since Brightkite knows that some people use their system as a geo-enabled Twitter client, like I explained the other day, sometimes you’ll find people “talking” to or about people that do not yet have a [...]

By: Kyle Slattery

Kyle Slattery — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:08:15 +0000

Brady: Awesome, thanks for commenting! I noticed that post the other day–I’m really excited to see what sort of tools get developed once it’s public. I’ll definitely be sending an email to take a look at the beta though.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:47:11 +0000

Hi Kyle. The Brightkite API Beta is available now. Read more about it here - http://blog.brightkite.com/2008/07/10/brightkite-api-beta-available/ If you would like access to the documentation please email us at api@brightkite.com.

By: Kyle Slattery

Kyle Slattery — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:54:45 +0000

Colin: It shouldn’t be costing money–my plan is for unlimited text and picture messages, so it shouldn’t be an issue. When I send an email, I send it the same way I would a text message, I just use an email address instead of a phone number.

By: Colin Devroe

Colin Devroe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:52:42 +0000

Kyle: Does either method of updating Brightkite cost you money?

Is there a way you can do something incredibly crafty, like sending updates to a Twitter profile that automatically SMSs a Brightkite phone number? Or something ingenious like that? Anyway to subvert this process?

By: Kyle Slattery

Kyle Slattery — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:50:38 +0000

Hm, looks like I may have spoken a little soon. Sending emails (via text messages) from my phone to Brightkite seems to be working again now, but I still hope they fix the integration with Verizon, so I can just text to the Brightkite number instead.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:55:08 +0000

I’m pretty happy with BrightKite, and I like it over the iPhone location services because I can specify only the city for my home address.

Thanks for the tip on customizing how the notes get posted, I hadn’t even seen that.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:19:48 +0000

Agreed–Brightkite is a pretty awesome service. Although I’ve only been using it for a day, I already love that I can send photos from my phone. Once I get a few more friends, I think it will start to be really useful. I’m also looking forward to the release of their API.

One thing that disappointed me, though it isn’t really Brightkite’s fault, is that Verizon doesn’t yet support sending them text messages to check in at locations, post a note, etc. The only thing I could get working was emailing them a photo from my phone. I’m hoping that gets sorted out soon.

By: Sajego

Sajego — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:24 +0000

I’ve been using Brightkite for a while. I was surprised at how many people there were using it in Denver… until I saw someone Check in at BrightKiteHQ which was just around the corner.