Awesome! One little "would be cool if" thing -- let us customize the updates like we can customize the Twitter updates. ;-) I know FB has some restrictions, but at least let us change the prepended verb.

Random question (I don't know where else to ask stupid little questions like this, since it doesn't belong in the support system), but how can I score one of those awesome BrightKite stickers I've seen on a car or two here in town? ;-)

Hey Brady & Co -- my stupid friends (heh) are whining because of the beta thing. Maybe you guys should put something on the app page that explains the private beta thing so people don't download it and get all whiney and 1-star it in the App store?

I tried to explain to 'em that you guys have to make sure the iPhone client doesn't overload servers/etc, but they're still ... well... whiney. Maybe I just need better friends... ;-)

Oh it's amazing. I just drove around the block just to play around with it, and was amazed at how well it found all of the stuff around me, even in the middle of a very remote Atlanta suburb... loopt couldn't even figure out what *city* I was in, but this app told me the exact address, and every restaurant and store there. Man... I hope you guys have some massive servers and bandwidth.. 'cause this is going to take off once people see how well it works. :) Now we just need a facebook app. *runs* (kidding; the RSS feeds will work for now).

And Apple said "push notifications would be out in September"... and they're not. And Windows Vista was supposed to be out in 2005. And Mac OS X Leopard was supposed to be released in June 2007, but got pushed to November. Delays happen in development (especially with the iPhone, since Apple keeps adding things to the SDK, or taking them out (push notification)).... and I think the BK guys learned from July to not give exact time frames on when software releases are coming out.

So yeah.. they could say "it will be out in 3 weeks!" but then everyone flips out and gives them huge negative press if it's not out in 3 weeks..

They're doing a decent job. I don't think them going "we're still working on it!" every 3 days would have done us any good, do you?

Off topic question, Brady... roughly how many people do you have working on the Brightkite project? I'm curious, because your iPhone app is 1000x better looking (and if it works like the video shows, 1000x better working) than loopt's app -- and the site is much better written, interface, feature, and usability wise, and they seem to have 50+ people working for them.

No exact numbers -- just "a lot more" or "a lot less" will work. ;)

Hah; I'm pretty amused by this the more I play with it. I never realized how bad Skyhook's database is in some cases. It looks like they mapped some residential areas a while back -- especially near apartment complexes -- then those people moved/relocated and took their access points with them.... so now their access point is in a different place than Skyhook thinks it is, and puts you in the entirely wrong place -- not by miles, but by a hundred or two miles. :) This isn't bk's fault at all -- my iPhone's "pseudoGPS" locates me in the same place before the actual GPS lock takes hold... Too bad there's not an easy way to tell skyhook "hey. this location is completely wrong!".

I bet they'll announce it on the Twitter feed as soon as they get the approval email from Apple... http://twitter.com/brightkite ... if you're really impatient, you can have their stuff get SMS'd to your phone. ;)

Plus the NDA was lifted. ;)

I've had them approve an app I wrote in 4 hours... and one took 4 weeks. It's impossible to tell with them. :(