New Feature: Bring Your Online Profiles Into the Real World
July 17th, 2008
Now you can let those around you discover who you are in the online world, while you are out in the the real world. Put your profiles in your pocket by adding your various online services to your Brightkite profile.
iPhone and mobile profiles showing “Elsewhere” links
To add your services to your Brightkite profile:
- Go to Account Settings and click your Profile tab.
- Choose a service and follow the instructions on how to enter your username
- Click Add
- Choose another service to add
- When you have added the desired services click Save.
Posted by Brady Becker at 5:30 PM in Product 12 comments
Should we expect to see this in our friends view or when others check in nearby? Have you looked at using dandyid.org to populate people's social services as well as increasing your list of services (not all of us use last.fm) ? Good addition guys.
This is great. Kind of a bummer I had to find out about this via the blog, but thankfully I LOVE reading the blog! Great job guys.
Adding XFN rel="me" is on our to do list.
Around the end of the month beginning of next month.
We are evaluating other services to add. Those are on the list.
Digg and Pownce would be a great sites to add
Thanks! You can also find out about Brightkite news via the company profile.. http://brightkite.com/people/brightkite or our twitter profile http://twitter.com/brightkite
you dont explain what this does. I linked these accounts but then what? Nothing happened
Looks like the Bkite iPhone App is coming along nicely… Any idea when it will be out?
Good work Brightkite! Please consider supporting XFN rel="me" microformat on these "Other Profile" links just like many other services do.
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
These appear in a users profile view. We have been talking with DandyId and have plans to implement their service soon. In the meantime we just wanted to add the basics.
Hi Harry. These profile links allow others to see who you are on your other online services. They achieve this by linking to your profile on the given external service. Our Brightkite profiles are limited on purpose. We link off to these sites because they already do a great job of describing who your are (Facebook, Linkedin, Myspace) and what your are interested in (Last.fm, Flickr). What Brightktie is concerned with is where you are.