Placestreaming, as in the stream of content originating from a specific place. We think this really captures what Brightkite is all about. We enable location based conversations. And location based conversations, in aggregate, are placestreams.

The excitement of the iPhone brought about an activity Techcrunch called Evenstreaming. Arrington coined the term when he talked about how Robert Scoble and several others basically broadcasted themselves sitting in line overnight waiting to buy the iPhone, the most highly anticipated technology release in history. Arrington called Evenstreaming “the seed of a revolution” and “the missing link in Web 2.0’s challenge to network television”.

Just before Evenstreaming, people were talking a lot about Lifestreaming. Lifestreaming being the stream of content published by someone about themselves. Twitter, Jaiku, Blogs, Tumblr and these live video tools let people stream themselves.

But we’re really excited about Placestreaming. We’re all about places and we want to let people share what they have to say when they’re in specific locations. If you think about it, events happen in places. Our lives happen in places. The place oftentimes dictates our experience there to a large extent. The place is relevant to how people interact when they’re there.

So Brightkite lets lets you stream from a place, or about a place. You can do this when you’re there or when you’re at home on your computer. When other people are in that place, they can read what people have streamed from that location - this is when it gets fun. People begin to communicate in a new way, and new connections are made that might never have been made before. Social Placestreaming emerges.

Stay tuned for more.

Posted by Martin at 4:56 PM in Brightkite, Placestreaming