Tag: BRIGHTKITE

The team at Brightkite is not content to linger in the shadows of super-trendy location-based checkin services Foursquare and Gowalla. They've burst back onto the scene in the past month with some killer new features, including a free group-text service and the beta launch of their multi-service checkin app, Check.in. We've covered Check.in before, so all we have to say here is that you should ...

We've been writing an awful lot about the location wars on Download Squad lately. Gowalla, Foursquare, and the rest are exploding in popularity, and that means trendy, early-adopter types might have several different sites to check in with every time they go somewhere. Reporting your location to multiple sites is a usability nightmare, but it has a solution: unified check-in! A service called ...

A popular social network that has a strong following on the web and on the iPhone is now taking aim at the Android market. Brightkite, a slick little app that lets you check in at any location and share photos and notes with your friends, is available for free in the Android store as of this week. Current Brightkite users won't be disappointed with the Android version, and Android users will ...

In the location-based social network arena, BrightKite has made quite a name for itself. The BrightKite product is so strong that the company is merging with another social network, Limbo, and moving to Limbo's offices in Burlingame, CA. The combined company gets BrightKite's service and brand name, and adds Limbo's engineers and offices. So, what does BrightKite get out of this deal with Limbo? ...

If you've been to a tech event since SXSW in 2006, you've probably seen some kind of large monitor displaying info from the conference-goers. Often, this means Twitter tweets by attendees. Brightkite has just taken this a step further, with their own "Wall" feature. Because Brightkite is a location-based service to begin with, the wall has a built-in way to gather data. This means the usefulness ...

BrightKite was already the Cadillac of location-based social networking, but it just got even better with the release of an iPhone app. Checking in is a breeze using the iPhone's GPS, and the app is pumped up with new features that make it a dramatic improvement over the old web version. There's been a buzz around Brightkite for iPhone for some time now, and it totally lives up to the hype. The ...

You've used Twitter and Dodgeball, but have you tried Brightkite? It's the latest and greatest location-centric web app to come to our attention. What does it do that the others don't you ask? Good question. Right at login, you're prompted with the question "What's Happening?" Sound familiar? All kidding aside though, they are geographic centric and allow you to check in from wherever you are in ...