Brightkite

if only it worked well - Ian Rathbone

"myKite is the Brightkite application for BlackBerry. Previously known as “BrightBerry” when it was in Beta, the MyKite app is a social networking tool geared to simplify meeting people based on the places you go. The fact that it ties into other existing social networks — like Twitter and Facebook — means myKite will compliment, instead of compete with, those more popular social networking tools. iPhone users have had a dedicated Brightkite application since October 2008. I’ve had a chance to use myKite for BlackBerry since it was officially released last week. Does the free application translate well to the BlackBerry platform? Does it deserve space on your BlackBerry? Well, Let’s just see…" - Kathleen Anderson from Bookmarklet

It's free! - Kolja

cool! will check it out? what does it do over the official brightkite app? - Eugene Huo

You're right. I was confused. I already had the same app installed, just a previous version. What confused me was that the app was simply called Brightkite, which led me to believe it was an official app. :S - Eugene Huo

Sharing your exact location with the world may seem unnecessary, but if you look back over your text messages and status updates you may be surprised at how often you post that you are doing something somewhere. - Daniel Sims from Bookmarklet

Firefox has this built in - geocode awareness - I found it yesterday - http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US... - if you go to yellowbot.com it asks for your geo-location. - TrafficBug

Google Gears http://gears.google.com/ can do it too in other browsers. But until the majority of phones support it, I don't think these location-based social networks will get any real traction. - Daniel Sims