Brendan Young Blag » brightkite http://www.brendanyoung.net Everything I say is from something, or I made it up Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Brightkite Spite http://www.brendanyoung.net/brightkite-spite/ http://www.brendanyoung.net/brightkite-spite/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:31 +0000 Brendan http://www.brendanyoung.net/?p=29 The other day I found this really neat “location-based” social network called Brightkite. It lets you see what your friends are up to in real time via twitter-like posts and pictures, but also displays your current location at the time of the post. It works best with a GPS device like an iPhone, but they say it works on any phone. They have a free iPhone app that I tried out on my iPod touch which is pretty snazzy. Of course, I could only use it when I’m in wifi. Otherwise I can post via SMS or mobile email from my blackberry.

Or at least I’m SUPPOSED to be able to. When you sign up it asks for your phone number preceded by your country code (which I had a considerable amount of trouble finding on the internet), and then texts you a confirmation number that you type in at the site. This all worked just peachy, but I still find myself unable to send SMS commands to brightkite. I sent invites to a few friends and they didn’t have the same problem. I suspect that Telus has once again spewed copious amounts of FAIL all over my attempts at having fun.

That aside, I still think it’s a really cool social networking deal that people should definitely try out. It’s in beta so it’s invite only, but I have a bunch of invites so drop me a line if you want I should send one your way. You can also sign up for an invite at the site, but that takes about a day or so.

Here’s my “wall”, if you want to take a look: http://brightkite.com/people/Brenderous

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