Category Archives: BrightKite

Committing Location Based Service Suicide

Yesterday I checked in for my last time.  I’m done.  No more BrightKite, FourSquare or Gowalla.  I was an early user on all three of the services, and am quitting cold turkey.
But why? (and why would anyone care…)
Well, why anyone would care can only be pointed to me just being a point of data as [...]

Thoughts on BrightKite and Limbo

Wow.  BrightKite and Limbo have joined forces.
I don’t know why, but hearing about mergers and acquisitions of my friends companies leaves me shocked for a bit.  As an avid user, I’m both happy and sad.  I don’t know why, perhaps it is the loss of innocents of what the company could be or fears of [...]

SXSWi 2009 So Far

Just a quick post, too many things to go see today.
Big winners of SXSW
(slang: ’southby’ or ’sxs dub’) in the first two and a half days:
Panels
I’ve been really impressed with the panels.  7/8 that I have gone to were well worth it.
People
Really amazing to turn around and meet so many amazing people.  Both up and [...]

BrightKite and FaceBook Connect

I was reading on Cnet how BrightKite was now syncing with Connect from Facebook.
I logged into my account, and under account settings, found the Connect options.  The process was amazingly simple.  Well done to the team.  You can read their blog post or watch the video of what the process was like below.

BrightKite Connect Video [...]

5 Uses For Brightkite

I’ve been impressed by the rock solid design of Brightkite.  If you don’t use it, try it out, it has an amazing community and feature set.
Here are 5 interesting extensions I have seen people using Brightkite for:
1) Use Brightkite to pick dinner. Check in, and see where everyone else has checked in.  I have done [...]