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Brightkite Kills Its Check-In Functionality To Focus On Group Texting
In what may be the first high-profile casualty of the location wars, Brightkite, an early player in the space, has today announced they’re officially killing off the check-in functionality of their service. Brightkite noted back in September that they’d likely be partnering on check-ins with one of the other major ...
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Social Network Brightkite Axes Check-Ins to Focus on Group Texting
The mobile social network Brightkite announced back in September that it would be focusing more on its group texting feature, but today the company announced that it will be officially dropping the check-in function altogether from its service. One of the earliest companies in the location-based social network trend, ...
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I’m Not Sure This Augments Your Reality, But Brightkite Gets Better AR Ads
Back in December, the location-based service Brightkite rolled out a new layer to its Augmented Reality (AR) view: ads. At the time, these were Google ads that showed up in a “relatively unobtrusive” way, as ReadWriteWeb put it. Now, those ads are getting more obtrusive because some big brands are ...
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Brightkite Teams Up With Starbucks For Deals, Branded Badges
When partnering with brands for you location-based network, it’s probably best to choose companies that are ubiquitous. As in, Starbucks ubiquitous. With over 17,000 store locations around the world (including over 11,000 in the U.S. alone), the chain, as everyone knows, is everywhere. So it looks like Brightkite chose wisely. ...
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Brightkite’s Sneaky Plan To Get Regular Users Into Location: Group Text
Brightkite is tricky. Tricky and smart. While larger than most of their location-based rivals with over 2 million users, they know that in the past year they’ve lost some momentum to the newer check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. So they’re trying to do something unique to swing momentum back ...
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Can Brightkite Beat Foursquare & Gowalla With a Universal Check-in?
Location based social network Brightkite plans to launch a universal check-in API that will let users update their information on competing services like Gowalla, Foursquare and others later this month at South by Southwest, we believe. In a poll we ran last night about competing location networks, Mark Krynsky, ...
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Brightkite: 2 Million Users And A Lot Of Local Promo Interest
Yesterday, I wrote that location was going to be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. Today, my inbox exploded. It seems that just about every company, advertiser, and even plenty of users associated with the location space emailed me with pitches, ideas, thoughts, etc. To say that space is red-hot right ...
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Brightkite Expands Product Line-up With Mobile Apps For Nokia, Palm Phones
Popular location-based social network Brightkite has simultaneously released mobile apps for some Nokia as well as Palm smartphones. The release of the apps follows earlier launches of Android, BlackBerry and iPhone applications. The Nokia app can be downloaded from the Ovi Store already and should run fine on all Symbian ...
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Brightkite 2.0 For The iPhone Now On The App Store
Brightkite was one of the early players in the location-based social networking game, which is a space that is growing rapidly. Originally a TechStars startup, Brightkite was bought in April by Limbo and has been flying a bit under the radar as a fresh crop of location-based services have popped ...
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Brightkite About To Go 2.0…And Asynchronous (Screenshots)
Brightkite has been one of the major players in the location-based social networking game for a while now. Originally a TechStars startup, the company was bought in April by Limbo, with the goal of merging the two location services. Since that time however, Brightkite has been flying a bit under ...
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Brightkite Integrates with Facebook
Do you want your Facebook friends to know where you are and what you're doing at all times? That's now possible thanks to mobile social network Brightkite and its recent integration with Facebook. Through the addition of Facebook Connect, which is quickly proving itself to be more than just a ...
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A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall
Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they're seeing on stage or in and around the venue. Twitter has always been the ...
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BrightKite iPhone App Goes Live (Finally)
Brightkite is one of the hottest mobile social networks on the scene. With a vast array of offerings and an active network of users to boot, you're bound to find someone near you or something new to check out. Recently this promising mobile social network released an official iPhone app ...
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