I gave up on Brightkite long ago ... it's a reincarnation of Dodgeball ... iPhone spells the death of Brightkite - Nick O'Neill

I find it rather funny that we have all this GPS and location-based tech baked into our gadgets and there isn't a robust API to access the geo-data, which is why we're forced to manually checkin using Brightkite. I want single button checkin capabilities that leverage my mobile's built in GPS. Brightkite is NOT a true location-based socnet in my book until it supports auto-checkin via GPS (rather than typing @ or ? location). - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

This has been my thought today. If they can make it work WITH the iPhone, it has half a chance. - Robert Sanzalone

yeah brightkite is really dropping the ball here IF one of the others (loopt, whrrl, etc) can take off. - MG Siegler

That's about the only reason why I'm using it as well Aaron. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Aaron, I haven't tried that - Duncan Riley

Good. It seems like a handy tool for assassins but I really don't need to know where all my friends are at any given moment. - Jim Stewart

Brian, I think thanks to Apple, iPhone and the CoreData api we might just have that. Loopt and Limbo are doing it on iPhone now. Plazes just got bought by Nokia so I doubt we'll see a Plazes iPhone app, brightkite has the buzz on twitter but Loopt could eat their lunch if no brightkite app appears soon. - Adam Turetzky

groovr.com is another player who had some buzz and they even had an iPhone web app. Will be interesting to see where this goes. - Adam Turetzky

The Brightkite team is working hard to get this out ASAP. They learned about 3g when the rest of us did, at the Stevenote. - Andrew Hyde

I hope they release something soon...but I'm happy to wait. - Mack D. Male