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If you didn’t get that, you probably won’t get Gnip’s name either. Regardless, we just started publishing all publicly-viewable Brightkite activity, including checkins, notes and photos, to recently launched data portability service Gnip. Here’s what they do in a nutshell:
We push activity to them, and instead of us getting bombarded with requests from social aggregation services every few seconds (SocialThing, FriendFeed, etc.), we can point them to Gnip and let them deal with it. The big upsides for aggregation services: no rate-limiting, and a uniform way to know when new data is available.
If you’re a developer, have a look at Gnip: it might just make your life a whole lot easier.