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Tamar Weinberg
I think I'm giving up on Brightkite. It seems to have forgotten about all the cities and locations I used to visit. Now it tells me it can't find those places. I'm not about to waste my time guessing what it knows instead. Goodbye Brightkite.
September 18, 2008
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Seamus Condron, Charlie Anzman, Czar and 4 other people liked this
woah and it's lost a real passionate member
- Zee.
It's too bad. I used Brightkite EVERYWHERE I went (as you can tell, I didn't get out much).
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar what we you initially getting out of using Brightkite?
- Corvida
To be honest, not much. I forged one real life friendship out of it, so that was cool -- it was fun to share my destinations with friends (more specifically, the pictures that I took were well-received). That's about it, though. I don't have a GPS-enabled phone so Brightkite did it for me.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar you inspired me to write this - http://shegeeks.net/why-loc...
- Corvida
@Corvida - great article (as always) in response to the OP... As with so many Twitter-like sites, the biggest drawback is the lack of common friends - I've built-up a great bunch of people on Twitter, whose updates interest me, but they're not all using Brightkite (or Pownce, or <your site here>). I know I can push-post from Brightkite to Twitter but then the conversation is one way only...
- Andrew Terry
(...not sure what happened there, but I thought I'd also made the point that even if I give Brightkite a postcode (Zip code), it doesn't pinpoint my location - which it should, because it uses Google Maps)
- Andrew Terry
I dont give up on services. I just allow them to fall off my radar until I need them again. Ones like Twitter and Stumbleupon never seem to though!
- MikeonTV
To follow-up, I actually think it's a Brightkite technical glitch. All these "I can't find where W 231 St and Broadway" messages were driving me nuts -- I previously checked in at the same location perhaps 5 times and had no problem. Hiro from bkite sent me a message saying "I hope you come back soon," but I should've probably mentioned that he needs to figure out why Brightkite isn't finding those locations like it used to. btw, Andrew, there's been some good conversation on the site. Not much tho.
- Tamar Weinberg
I'm an early adopter regardless -- I was on Twitter since December 2006 and most people picked it up in late 2007/early 2008. I don't mind using a service when there isn't much momentum (FF, anyone?). However, I am bothered when a service doesn't work as advertised.
- Tamar Weinberg