10 Mobile, Geo Social Location-Aware Apps To Watch in 2010 - #1 Brightkite
Written by @gletham
Friday, 18 December 2009
Social media is cool, there’s no question about that, however, when
users have the ability to incorporate location with their social media
the possibilities are seemingly endless.
Share information and life
streams with people near you or simply tie your social media to a
specific location… the added value and usefulness in doing this results
in an your stream becoming even more useful and interesting. And so, to
honor the great strides that LBS solution providers are making with
location-aware apps, I’m pleased to share with you 10 amazing mobile
social-LBS apps (no particular order) that I think will continue to
make a splash as we head into 2010… enjoy!
Social Mobile LBS App #1 — Brightkite
(www.brightkite.com & Twitter @Brightkite) is a fun, social tool
based on users’ location and enables users to see who’s nearby and what
they are doing. I currently use Brightkite on iPhone although Android
and S60 supported clients are also available. Firing up Brightkite
causes the app to perform a hit on the user’s location. At that point
the user can then check-in, this pulls a POI search of nearby places of
interest where the user can select his location from the list or add
the place to the list of it doesn’t exist yet… the next time he checks
in at that location the POI should appear in the DB. During a check-in,
if the user has pre-defined sharing to social networks, details of the
check-in can be sent directly to Twitter providing a we blink url where
users can see details of the check-in along with a map and notes.
Brightkite also provides facebook connect for simple sharing of
location information with your facebook connections as well.
User Check-in seems to be the most widely used feature, although
social networking with other users is also enabled as is streaming and
sharing comments based on a specific event or hashtag (this was popular
at an Ignite Boulder event I attended last year). I frequently check-in
with a photo and so its great to know that Brightkite also provides
Flickr connect so mobile photo uploads can automatically be shared on
my Flickr stream as well… handy! See more at Brightkite.com and feel
free to connect with yours truly at http://brightkite.com/people/gisuser
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