Thank You For The BrightKite Invite
Microtweens, Social Networking May 5th, 2008
Well, it’s been four days since I posted about BrightKite and now I’m in. Someone was kind enough to send me an invite. I’d like to give a big thanks to whoever it was. The invite didn’t tell me so unless you speak up, it will just have to be your secret.
I’m looking forward to exploring BrightKite and reporting back what I find. One thing I can already see is the use of Placemarks, which are like bookmarks for the common places that you go to all the time. You can text @work to a special number and that will let people know you’re at work. This is like a short hand way of relating information.
I especially like that I can connect my Twitter account to my BrightKite profile. The advantage to me is that I can post to one source and have it distributed to multiple places. I have my Twitter account connected to several other social networking sites, so when I update Twitter I am also updating these places around the web. With the explosion of social networking sites and the maturing social market, I think it’s extremely important to automate your connection points as much as possible. It’s not practical to think that someone can go around to every social site and update their friends on what their doing. But if all those sites are plugged together, then it becomes fast and easy to let people know what you’re up to.
Eventually I can see this format expanding into the OpenSocial platform to provide you with one centralized social profile, but that’s another post all together.
So thank you to whoever sent me the invite and oh, and I have three invites of my own to give away. So, if you’re looking for BrightKite invites, leave me a comment about how you plan to use BrightKite (include a real email address in the address field) and I’ll send you an invite. Comment spammers need not apply.
Sharing the love,
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
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May 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hey Charles!
I have definitely heard the buzz about BrightKite lately! If/when I get into the site, I plan on utilizing in two different areas.
a) Since I’m new to California, I figure it can’t hurt to make some new local friends.
b) I’ve been contemplating my blog (or lack there of), this would help connect me to other users and give me the motivation to get cracking on it.
-steve
May 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
@ steve:
Steve,
Your BrightKite invite is on its way my friend! Good luck with the blogging and congrats on moving out to California. I loved it while I was out there in 1991.
What part of are you in?
May 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Thanks!
I am living in Long Beach and working down in Orange County (Irvine).
May 6th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Charles,
Would really appreciate an invite as well. I loved Dodgeball when it first came out, and this seems like the next-gen evolution of mobile social networking. I’m just a geek that loves trying out the latest and greatest…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Charles -
Great info on birghtkite btw.
I am looking for a single point of contact for my soical networking sites. I currently jump from Twitter to Jaiku to Facebook, etc to update. I have some connected to each other (tumblr) that get the feeds, but brightkite sounds like an answer.
If you have any invites left, I would love to check it out.
Thanks.
- Michael
May 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Trever,
Did you get your invite? Let me know.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I too am a tech hungry “geek” An invite would be fabulous!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
So how do you plan to use it? I think we are all interested in how this technology is going to affect change in our lives. It’s cool that its cool, but what will it do for you?
May 17th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I want a BrightKite invite, as I think it’ll play well into my Get Local project. The Internet is great and all that, but I’m interested on a personal level in using social media networks to talk with flesh and blood people. As a geek and a marketer working from home, it’s way too easy to stay in my little corner of the world. I’m hoping that with effort to stay in touch, Bright Kite will be the resource I’ve been looking for.
May 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I’d love an invite if you have one to spare, please!
May 25th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I would really like one invite! Please send to my gmail.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I would like a BrightKite invite as I would like to be the first user of that service from Warsaw Poland
May 31st, 2008 at 11:55 am
@ Nick Zawicki:
Hey Nick. I see you are already on BrightKite. You must be quick.
Cheers,
Charles
June 10th, 2008 at 6:01 am
@ Charles:
Thanks for the invite!
June 14th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hey Charles,
can i get an invite? we have a project going on where brightkite/twitter will serve well. we are doing tweetups and think the location-based social side will improve it greatly. thanks
June 16th, 2008 at 3:00 am
If you still have an invite, then I’d really like one. Would be perfect for my travels…
Cheers!
June 17th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Hi Charles, if there are still invites going, I would love one! Thanks in advance!?
July 4th, 2008 at 5:40 am
hi charles, i realize this may be a little late but i would greatly appreciate if you could spare an invite for me to brightkite. thanks in advance.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:50 am
thanks for the invite charles!
July 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Dale, your certainly welcome. Just in case you haven’t heard, there is a great site out there called Hellotxt.com that lets you post updates to multiple sites at once. This is very handy if you use Twitter, BrightKite, Pownce, Plurk, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. and you don’t want to post the same update to all of them. There is an option to select which services get which update so you can use the site to send unique messages to each service. I like one stop shopping tools like this because they save me time flipping between screens and logins.
Do you use any other microblogging services like Twitter or Pownce?
July 8th, 2008 at 9:58 am
http://my.mashable.com/alexmerced
I want a brightkite invite
July 11th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Hi Charles! I’ll cut to the chase and just ask that if you’ve any available invites, could you send me one? I learned about Brightkite when I signed up for Ping.fm, and have been DYING to try it
Thanks in advance!
joe
July 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
ooops, wrong email in my comment above! this is my correct one.