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Brightkite is a location-aware social networking app for Android, iPhone, and now BlackBerry that lets you share photos and notes at certain GPS coordinates both with your friends and to the community at large. Using the service requires you to occasionally “check in”, which might be a pain for those who are used to automated location sharing like we see in Google Latitude, but it does open the doors to those who don’t have integrated GPS in their phone. The interesting thing about the BlackBerry app in particular is that it was built by a third party using open APIs, basically making myKite a homebrew job with an official seal of approval; good on Brightkite for supporting the developer community like that. Interested? Give it a try for free in the BlackBery App World.
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
