Tag Archives: brightkite

Kyle Slattery on geocoding his vacation

By Colin Devroe | Published: January 11, 2010

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 of [...]

Posted in Links | Also tagged geocoding, kyle slattery, location, twitter | Leave a comment

What Brightkite could be. What Brightkite should be.

By Colin Devroe | Published: December 28, 2009

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 users can [...]

Posted in Notes | Also tagged business, geocoded, geolocation, microblogging, places, twitter | Leave a comment

The Brightkite break continues…

By Colin Devroe | Published: July 30, 2009

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. In [...]

Posted in Notes | Also tagged chris-tingom, twitter | 1 Comment

Another Brightkite break

By Colin Devroe | Published: April 15, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Links | Also tagged break, jacob burke | 1 Comment

Taking a Brightkite break

By Colin Devroe | Published: April 8, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Mobile notes | Also tagged hiatus, twitter | 9 Comments

Ok Brightkite, this is what I need

By Colin Devroe | Published: March 18, 2009

A wish list, of sorts, for Brightkite.

Posted in Notes | Also tagged favorites, flickr, geotagging, iphone, locations, tweetdeck, twitter, twitterrific, viddler, wish-list | 6 Comments

Web applications that I use on my iPhone

By Colin Devroe | Published: September 17, 2008

I have tried a lot of different applications, Web applications, and sites on my iPhone. I always like to see what sticks. But for me, these are my most frequented URLs on the go.