Since posting the invite page for our upcoming beta, we’ve had a lot of people sign up. Today, we ran some of the numbers to find out which method of notification is preferred, and came up with the following results:
As expected, email is the most popular method of notification for the invites, but interestingly enough a lot of people opted to be invited via instant messenger. We suspect that is mostly because of the lack of good, reliable instant messenger notification across the different providers, and people just want to see if it works. It’ll be interesting to watch as this develops.
Looks like the good folks over at 37signals like our placeholder page for Brightkite 
From their site:
Came across this ‘we’ll let you know when it launches’ screen (at brightkite), which is a little bit out of the ordinary. It lets you get notified not only via email, but also via IM and SMS. Pretty neat, given that the product they’re promoting is about notifications.
As avid fans of their stuff (RoR, Basecamp, Campfire, Getting Real, etc.), we’re quite honored by this mention. Thank You, Matt!
The results are in, and Brightkite was among the 10 companies still left standing at the end of the TechStars selection process. We are proud to have made it this far (after all, there were over 300 applications), and really look forward to the sessions and mentorship that the program will provide.
Despite the excitement over getting accepted, we still have a ton of work ahead of us. Over the next few months, we will blog about Brightkite’s progress, talk about day-to-day life as a TechStars participant, and give you some exclusive sneak previews of what to expect (hint: subscribe to our RSS feed).
