Using brightkite on your blackberry
- I've been using twitter Twitter: What are you doing? for a fair while, using mainly
twitterberry client and more recently twibble :: a location aware twitter client for Mac OS, Windows, Mobile
twitter is like an instant messaging platform but instead of sending your message to just one person, it broadcasts it to people who 'follow' you.
There is a great little video on the twitter.com which explains it better than I can.
I've been experimenting with another social networking tool/site called brightkite, brightkite.com.
brightkite goes a step further than twitter and does clever things like check who is in your vicinity that are also using brightkite and allows you to message them etc.
You can post pictures and do other neat stuff.
They have just released a beta client for the iPhone, which has been in great demand. They have a blackberry client in the works but it is far from ready at the moment. I'm not sure they realise there is a demand for it.
If you start using brightkite you sill see how neat it is, give it a few days though before you dismiss it. You can use it on your blackberry by using the mobile interface, which works fine in the rim browser.
brightkite allows you to post to your twitter account from within brighkite too.
It's invite only at present and I do have a spare invite or two to give out.
Let me know if you are keen to give it a whirl.
If we can drum up a bit of interest on here maybe the guys developing the brightkite app will push it forward a bit
Thanks
mikeLast edited by dirky; 09-03-08 at 03:44 PM. Reason: urls needed fixing
09-03-08 03:40 PMLike 0 - I'm also playing around with both of these web apps as well.
Right now, Brightkite's usefulness is limited as long as it's not able to use the Blackberry GPS or even cell phone triangulation, and doing automatic updates to the site.
I really hope that they work on cell phone triangulation together with GPS, since GPS only works outside of buildings.
This is the first thing that they need to work on if they want people to post notes, photos, comments, etc since it's a pain to keep 'checking in' where you are.09-04-08 02:41 PMLike 0 - I'm also playing around with both of these web apps as well.
Right now, Brightkite's usefulness is limited as long as it's not able to use the Blackberry GPS or even cell phone triangulation, and doing automatic updates to the site.
I really hope that they work on cell phone triangulation together with GPS, since GPS only works outside of buildings.
This is the first thing that they need to work on if they want people to post notes, photos, comments, etc since it's a pain to keep 'checking in' where you are.
Secondly there is a very small and usefull app which has been written that allows you to download your placemarks over the air from the BK site. You can then quickly select where you are and click update, thats it. Takes about a second.
This is the beginnings of the blakcberry brightkite application.
The author is starting to integrate this in to some other code very soon.
The app called BBPlacemarks is available here
BBPlacemarks
its functional and works well for me. The only problem is once you check in somewhere you still have to go to the BK mobile site to post a note.
I usually use the 'email photo' and comment to my bk email address.
Mike Dent (mcdent) - brightkite.com09-08-08 10:02 AMLike 0 - Well, I received my invite today much to my surprise.
The site is very interesting and allows you to create a blog of sorts but rather than do a daily post, it allows you to post randomly as many times as you want and with photos.
Great functionality on the mobile site as well as the full site and based on the posts I've seen on the mobile site, there seems to be a wide base of users.
This site works great if you have friends that have an interest in knowing what you're up to. For me, who has no friends, it is useless.
Dm09-12-08 08:42 AMLike 0 - I updated my blog with a post about this today.
Are you a Blackberry developer twiddling your thumbs? at Mike Dent’s ‘ickle Home (thing)…
d10-09-08 02:47 PMLike 0 - You no longer need an invite to sign up for Brightkite now.
See the entry on their blog at
Brightkite now in Public Beta at Brightkite Blog
Sadly no Blackberry love as yet but I'm trying!12-03-08 05:33 PMLike 0 -
- Nice to see this progressing into an actual app. Hopesfully they will add in GPS support soon as well.05-19-09 01:29 PMLike 0
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