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.
Brightkite is all about sharing your location and meeting new people based on the places you visit, and the latest way of doing that is with the Brightkite API. Using the Brightkite API you can add a location component to any site, social network, or application.
We are looking for developers interested in helping us beta test the Brightkite API. If you would like access to our API please send a request to api@brightkite.com.
We are excited about the potential mashups and third party integrations. One of the very first sites to integrate the Brightkite API is Socialthing!. Socialthing! is a terrific app that lets you see everything that is going on with your friends from all the sites you use, all in one spot. We are really excited about Socialthing implementing our API. If you haven’t checked it out yet, we highly recommend you do.
User stream on Socialthing showing Brightkite updates
Brightkite configuration options on Socialthing
Between meetings yesterday Martin added support for our shiny new toy, the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker. Living in Colorado I spend a lot of time in the backcountry, so having the ability to check in far beyond the reach of wifi/cell signals is something I am pretty excited about. At the touch of a button the SPOT will check you in anywhere on earth via satellite. (It even works in the air)
To check in with your SPOT on Brightkite simply add your bkite.com email (yourcode@bkite.com) to your recipient list on the SPOT website. Your SPOT checkins will now appear on Brightkite.
Want to know the moment somebody mentions you or comments on one of your posts? Many of you have asked for this feature, now we are happy to offer it.
To turn on notifications for comments and/or mentions:
- Go to Account Settings and click on the Notifications tab.
- Scroll down to the Account Notifications section and choose how you would like to be notified.
- Click save.
We hope you find this new feature useful. Thanks for your continued support.
Inline Comments
A few days ago we quietly released inline commenting. Prior to this update, you had to visit the object page to view and/or write a comment. Now you can conveniently post a comment without leaving the page.
Additionally we have added a “Track this thread” checkbox. If you select this box (selected by default), any comments added to that particular thread will show up in your “Comments” tab. This handy feature helps you stay on top of posts you have commented on or threads you are interested in.
Posts Search
We’ve also added a basic way to search posts. Watch for improvements around this feature in the coming months.
We hope you enjoy the improvements
We’re really thrilled about these improvements especially the inline comments. We hope you find these changes as useful as we do. Thanks again for your continued support! Keep watch over the next few weeks for our developer API and native iPhone app.
We’ve added some neat new features.
Mentions Stream
We’ve made it easy to see when when people are talking about you, and/or addressing you in their posts. When people include @yourusername in their posts they will now appear in your mentions stream located under the “Mentions” tab.
Comment Stream
Want to know when people comment on your posts? Now its easy with the comment stream. Located under the “Comments” tab, the comments stream helps you keep up on comments on new and old posts alike.
Over the coming weeks watch for comment notifications, inline commenting and the Brightkite developer API. As always let us know what you think of these new streams.
During their Fix-it Day, FriendFeed added support Brightkite and our fellow TechStars team IntenseDebate.
Ping.fm and Hellotxt have also added support for Brightkite. We are excited about these third party services adding support for Brightkite. Keep watch over the next few weeks for our developer API which will enable seamless third party integration and interesting mashsups.
Don’t let 3 A.M. SMS notifications keep you from your beauty sleep. Brightkite now has quiet time. To set your quiet hours visit your “Account Settings” and click on the “Notifications” tab.
Hello everyone! You can now comment on notes, photos and checkins. There are more commenting features coming soon but in the interim we wanted to release the basics.
