Brightkite Location-Based iPhone App Now Available

Wow... Really surprised this has been up for 45 minutes and no one has posted about it yet.


http://appshopper.com/social-networking/brightkite

Video of it in action: http://vimeo.com/1984673?pg=embed&sec=1984673

Ars Technica preview: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/10/16/brightkite-iphone-app-preview-invites-video-in-action

It's a really nice app. Glad to see they made something native.

Seems limited unless you have a ton of people in your area who register then use the app. Others like yelp are already in the store that try and do that.

Seems limited unless you have a ton of people in your area who register then use the app. Others like yelp are already in the store that try and do that.

Yeah I'm in the UK near London and there are hardly any people using it. Shame really as I tried BK a while back and liked it but found that back then there weren't enough people using it.

Perhaps Twinkle has taken BK's place?

I think Brightkite hasn't really taken off much because it requires an invite to join. Not sure when they plan on opening it up for anyone.

And thus another twinkle clone is born

And thus another twinkle clone is born

If memory serves me, Brightkite has been around longer than Twinkle.

It is just that Twitter has a good adoption rate at the moment and Twinkle was the best Twitter client for a while (I think Twittelator is better now and also the latest Twitterific) and Twinkle also included a location option.

Brightkite's functionality goes much beyond the location services in Twinkle though, Brightkite is more focused on set locations and posting pictures/notes/etc to that location and when I say location I mean establishments like specific bars/restaurants not just a lat/long like in Twinkle.

umm does the "Notifications" work like push? or his phone is JB phone?

This could be the best app ever and I would never know because it is currently a "private beta." I was excited about the opportunity to try it but was quickly dissapointed to learn that I can't even use it because it's "invite only". Due to this I will be giving it a very low and poor review.

To those of you whining about it being invite only, I didn't have an invite. I clicked the button that says "request an invite" or whatever it is. I got an invite. Problem solved.