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.
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 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.
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.
Joe Lazarus made a Brightkite Badge Widget using Yahoo Pipes. This easily configurable widget can be placed on your blog or web page and it will show your recent notes and photo posts.
We do have official Brightkite widgets in the works but meantime this is a great interim option. Thanks Joe!
Yesterday evening we quietly released a generic mobile version of Brightkite. Cheers to Tony for whipping out this alpha version in a couple days. We haven’t yet tested it on every device so if you encounter issues on certain devices, please tell us, and specify the device.
You can find the mobile version of Brightkite at m.brightkite.com
In addition to the mobile version, we have been working away fixing some of the major issues discovered in the past few weeks. Things to look for in the coming weeks: improved mapping functionality, improved friend discovery, improved profiles, refinements to the iPhone app, and fixes to many other little issues such as the login cookie annoyance.
