Martin May's Comments

Brightkite Blog : Huge news! Limbo is joining forces with Brightkite

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:09:09 +0000

Thanks for all the help, David...couldn't have gotten here without you :)

Occipital : The future of pedestrian navigation

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 03:39:55 +0000

Is this data being processed in near-realtime?

Brightkite Blog : Say what words can't express - We've added Emoji support

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:33:46 +0000

We detect Emoji characters server-side and replace them with the appropriate images.

Brightkite Blog : The Next Digital Experience - Davos Session

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 04:14:48 +0000

Simon, we try to give people as many options and safeguards as we can without sacrificing usability. We'd love to hear what other privacy features you would like to see on Brightkite. In general, you can delete any of the stuff you create. We don't let you switch the visibility on things you posted in the past just yet, but that's coming very soon. However, changing privacy after the fact doesn't deal with any syndication that might already have happened (i.e. Google indexed it, it was shared to Twitter, nearby users were notified, etc.), that's why we've been focusing on giving people the tools to keep things private to start with (e.g. new user accounts default to private mode). Of course, there is always room for improvement. Location-stuff is complicated. Striking a balance between convenience and control, all while maintaining a good user experience, is something that we strive for with everything we do. Please keep the feedback coming, we really appreciate it.

Brightkite Blog : The Next Digital Experience - Davos Session

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:27:19 +0000

Great thoughts. That's more or less in line with our thinking. I'd also love to hear thoughts on privacy as it pertains to being tracked constantly (which is convenient, but not very private), versus manual checkins (which is less convenient, but more private). We're working on ways to fuse the two and get the best of both worlds, but it's quite challenging to find a good balance without providing too many options that confuse the average user.

Brightkite Blog : Share Photo Posts to Your Facebook Album

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:58:29 +0000

Right...completely misread your previous post, sorry. We don't have any plans to do this in batch, but you could use our API to accomplish that.

Brightkite Blog : Share Photo Posts to Your Facebook Album

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:53:58 +0000

Jamie, we don't really view Brightkite as an archival utility, so there is no "photo album" per se. If you are talking about adding past pictures to Brightkite places, that's something we're considering for the future.

Brightkite Blog : Cross-post Your Photos to Flickr, with Optional Geotagging

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:19:23 +0000

To clarify, do you mean just static tags that will be the same for every post from Brightkite, or do you want changing tags for each photo? The former would probably be easy to do, while the latter isn't.

Brightkite Blog : Cross-post Your Photos to Flickr, with Optional Geotagging

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:17:28 +0000

Are you in private mode, with your posts hidden to non-friends? Currently, we treat flickr as "everyone else".

Victory In Increments : Brightkite: Hit or Miss(ing the opportunity to be viral)

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:12:17 +0000

Julie, We're working on letting you name places, but we want to make sure that we get it right. There are some interesting challenges around that which might not be apparent at first ;) Martin

Feld Thoughts : Loving Brightkite for the iPhone

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:39:35 +0000

You can also use Brightkite via SMS.

Brightkite Blog : Brightkite iPhone Chat

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:28:58 +0000

We hadn't planned on it, but I'll see what I can do.

Brightkite Blog : Brightkite iPhone Chat

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:28:21 +0000

Sorry, can't give you a date, but we're doing our best to get it to you soon.

Brightkite Blog : Brightkite iPhone Chat

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:54:40 +0000

Arghs...yes, I meant the 10th :) Fixed.

Brightkite Blog : Brightkite iPhone Chat

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:38:29 +0000

It will most likely be compatible, but we don't think that the iPod Touch makes a good platform for this because location accuracy will be bad, and coverage really, really spotty.

Brightkite Blog : So...its the end of the month, where is the iPhone app?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:12:20 +0000

Hint: watch our blog over the next few days, and you might get into the beta test for the app ;)

Brightkite Blog : Watch DNC Activity via Brightkite

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:41:50 +0000

We just pushed a major update to how our location resolution works, and we're currently in the process of merging locations that might have gotten duplicated, like the example you mention. Should be taken care of in the next few days.

Brightkite Blog : So...its the end of the month, where is the iPhone app?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:24:58 +0000

Rest assured that we're still working on it. We might have something for a few beta testers in the next couple of weeks. When the time comes, we'll announce it on our blog. Thanks for being patient. I realize that waiting sucks, but we just don't feel comfortable releasing the current version to the world just yet.

Socialthing! blog : Ok, so yeah...it's true! We got acquired...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:52:51 +0000

Congratulations, guys! I know that you've worked very hard to get there, and deserve the success.

TechStars Community : As much as I want to love BriteKite, the ...

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:29:10 +0000

It's not well integrated, and will only show people's public location (since you're not logged in), but try putting

http://brightkite.com/people/<your username>/friends.kml

into your iPhone's Google maps app. You should get your friends on the map. We'll have better support for this in the native app.

Martin