I’ve been privileged to receive an invite to Brightekite privet beta a few days ago, for those who do not know the service it is a location based micro blogging and photo sharing social network, my profile is here.

On BrightKite you can use both the web and mobile to send your status update or photos. From the mobile you have to check in your current location using SMS for example: @2911 Walnut St, Denver, CO, from the web you check in to a location by writing it down and when sending your updates your updates is attached to your latest checked in location.

You can send photos via mobile through email: Email your photo to: s1650@bkite.com and enter a caption for your photo in the subject line of the email. The service is mashed up with Google maps. You can also control the privacy of the of your posts, photos, and locations visibility.

The beauty about it, is you can know the where about of your friends, and the location of their photos and updates, know your friends and other members who are around you at the moment, using the web or mobile, in 20, 200, 2000, and 4000 radius. The company recently launched a cool iPhone interface. BrightKite also allow you to link your updates to twitter.

Currently Brightkite only support the following US carriers: AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel and Boost Mobile.

Imagine if Brightkite would add features such as video posting from the web, and mobile with geo location, enabling users to tag both photos and videos into relevant tags other than location, add comments to them and provide the option to view photos taken in any location, this could be done though SMS, MMS, and a special mobile application check twitpic.com. –BrightKite will launch mobile application for checking in soon - and adding more profile fields that would give more information about the user than the current Brightkite limited profile information.

These features where basically part of an idea of a startup I was planning to launch 2 years ago and the developers who signed my NDAs know a bet about it. –Note to the people who signed the NDA, it is still valid and you can not use or share its’ content with other specially the other aspects not mentioned here J-

If these features were added, it would open the world to web 3.0 that could be used in allot of useful ways such as: Trip planning, hanging out, discovering places, and location based instant social networking.

For example you want to visit a certain street in a certain city, you could go and look at the associated photos and videos to that street. Also you can filter them into any tag type you want -Yahoo has a working privet beta project for sharing your location called Fire Eagle and Google added recently Video locations to its’ map- these videos and photos has comments so you could read them or add yours and get a bigger picture of what is going on. Moreover you can see who has visited this location or is already there and send them messages asking them about the best places to go to, At the end of your trip you can post your videos, phoos and updates, such as a photo of a Sushi dish from a Japanies restauran, giving users insights of the restaurant’s food.

Another example is if you go to an event, and you want to see who is who, so you just login via your mobile browser and view the profiles of people around you, just nudge the people you wana connect with, and if they nudge back, you can start a conversation and build a relationship. See TechCrunch story here.
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