Brightkite doesn't let you stalk me. - Robert Scoble

@Robert it's hard to tell if you mean to say that's a bad thing. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

I like being stalked. :-) - Robert Scoble

Well, that's kinda what I figured, but thought I'd ask while I was here - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Or foursquare, even better than BrightKite. :-) - Jesse Stay

my problem with BrightKite is it sucks at auto-detecting my location and that I can't get my friends to sign up for yet another twitter type site. But, a google app, they will probably be willing to use it. - Bill Rawlinson

turns out latitude isn't too hot at figuring out where I am either. WTF? And your right the interface kind of sucks. Though the fact that it is a web-based app is pretty cool - I just wish it was integrated with the built in mapping app on the phone. - Bill Rawlinson

I am a big fan of Brightkite but as commenter Bill says, the auto-locate feature isn't anywhere as good as Foursquare. Crystal ball time, Brightkite is great but Foursquare wins because you can actually do something like become mayor of a location by visiting it the most times, which can get you perks like free coffee/beer. Brightkite checking in is like sending email to dev/null, you do it and nothing really happens. - Dave Evans from FriendFeed MT Plugin

No, checking in on Brightkite lets your friends know that you are at an actual, human-readible location, and it let's you create and view media *about* a location. I'm not out to play a silly game about where I am. I want to know about people, easily meet up with friends, and make new ones. That's Brightkite. - David Chartier

I think a big part of my problem with these things is where i live, as opposed to the technologies around them. I live in very small city and there just aren't that many places where my friends might be. Plus, most of the people I know are married and are thus going to be either 1. at home, 2. at work, 3. with me already - so, at least at the moment, I don't see a huge need for location based stuff (even if I think the idea is cool). - Bill Rawlinson

I wrote some blog comparisons on Brightkite versus Latitude and what the heck all the settings were for Latitude. I still think Brightkite is the winner. It even has the iPhone native and BlackBerry app http://TheSocialNetworker.com is whee I wrote the articles - Chris Miller

a link to the actual article would be quite a bit more useful Chris.. - Bill Rawlinson