The Trail Log

Brightkite is one of my favorite web services out there and I’ve only been using it a couple of days. It’s a lot like Twitter but very focused on Geographic locations. You can search for a business, or enter an address, then “check in” from that location and any posts or photos you upload will be associated with that place. It’s cool to see the notes and photos from people around you. Another cool thing is that if one of your friends checks in close to you, you’ll get a message about it so you can have an impromptu get together.

So one tip I figured out recently is that you can actually use longitude and latitude in decimal degrees format in lieu of an address. So you don’t actually have to be anywhere specific to check in. Because of the way the site works you’ll still see notes and photos from people close by, so if you’re in the boonies or a foreign country, using lat/lon coordinates would be a good way to go.

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