Comments on: Brightkite - Localized Social Networking http://www.startupsd.net/startupnews/post/brightkite-localized-social-networking The official source for web startup news, events and collaboration in San Diego Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Van Grove, Social Media Strategist and San Diego Blogger » Curiousity Killed the Cat and Your Twitter Followers http://www.startupsd.net/startupnews/post/brightkite-localized-social-networking/comment-page-1#comment-672 Jennifer Van Grove, Social Media Strategist and San Diego Blogger » Curiousity Killed the Cat and Your Twitter Followers Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:12:28 +0000 http://www.startupsd.net/?p=37#comment-672 [...] was a shiny new toy, it was so new the bugs were kind of funny. I loved the idea of the site so I interviewed Martin May about Brightkite and did a follow up piece to encourage adoption before the Web2.0 Expo in San [...] [...] was a shiny new toy, it was so new the bugs were kind of funny. I loved the idea of the site so I interviewed Martin May about Brightkite and did a follow up piece to encourage adoption before the Web2.0 Expo in San [...]

]]> By: Jane Doe http://www.startupsd.net/startupnews/post/brightkite-localized-social-networking/comment-page-1#comment-262 Jane Doe Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:42:26 +0000 http://www.startupsd.net/?p=37#comment-262 "Let’s talk about Brightkite, a location-based social networking and stalker enabling site that is posed to take over the world, or at least update you as to where the world your target is. According to their site, Brightkite, “violates personal privacy and threatens personal safety by publishing your personal bits along with location data to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and have real-world stalkers threaten their safety to an even greater extent than they do now. Stalkers and marketers with no ethics with respect to privacy can see where their targets are and what they’re up to all while maintaining flimsy end-user agreements re: 'comprehensive degrees of privacy to non-friends. Depending on a user’s privacy setting they can also be open to meeting others nearby.'” Private and public information continues its upside down course in North America. “Let’s talk about Brightkite, a location-based social networking and stalker enabling site that is posed to take over the world, or at least update you as to where the world your target is. According to their site, Brightkite, “violates personal privacy and threatens personal safety by publishing your personal bits along with location data to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and have real-world stalkers threaten their safety to an even greater extent than they do now. Stalkers and marketers with no ethics with respect to privacy can see where their targets are and what they’re up to all while maintaining flimsy end-user agreements re: ‘comprehensive degrees of privacy to non-friends. Depending on a user’s privacy setting they can also be open to meeting others nearby.’”

Private and public information continues its upside down course in North America.

]]> By: A Web 2.0 Expo and Brightkite Social Experiment (Brightkite Invites Included) « Inside the Rabbit-Hole http://www.startupsd.net/startupnews/post/brightkite-localized-social-networking/comment-page-1#comment-39 A Web 2.0 Expo and Brightkite Social Experiment (Brightkite Invites Included) « Inside the Rabbit-Hole Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:45:52 +0000 http://www.startupsd.net/?p=37#comment-39 [...] recently wrote an article on Brightkite, a location-based social networking service, for StartupSD. You should read it; I interviewed [...] [...] recently wrote an article on Brightkite, a location-based social networking service, for StartupSD. You should read it; I interviewed [...]

]]> By: Leonardo Souza http://www.startupsd.net/startupnews/post/brightkite-localized-social-networking/comment-page-1#comment-33 Leonardo Souza Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:56:46 +0000 http://www.startupsd.net/?p=37#comment-33 Very good post, Jenn! What I was most interested about was in knowing that they have a "pretty well defined revenue model". IMHO I think that the web-analytics for the real world could actually be a really good business. I used to work for a company here in Brazil that started back in 1999 with just the simple purpose of collecting customer behavior while providing fun to customers through quizzes and other sorts of "games". This turned to be quite a good business, because we had a valuable and faithful audience that loved the service and in exchange was happy to provide feedback (about products, services, whatever) to our business clients. My opinion is that if a company provides a service really valuable to me (such as a ranking of good places near me or the possibility to find "online friends" near me) I would happily use and talk about it to my friends, which in turn would result in more users = more business opportunities. Well, to bad your invites are only for people in San Diego. I've put my name on the waiting list there and hopefully they will start sending invites to people here in Sao Paulo - Brazil soon. :) Best, Leo Very good post, Jenn!

What I was most interested about was in knowing that they have a “pretty well defined revenue model”. IMHO I think that the web-analytics for the real world could actually be a really good business.

I used to work for a company here in Brazil that started back in 1999 with just the simple purpose of collecting customer behavior while providing fun to customers through quizzes and other sorts of “games”. This turned to be quite a good business, because we had a valuable and faithful audience that loved the service and in exchange was happy to provide feedback (about products, services, whatever) to our business clients.

My opinion is that if a company provides a service really valuable to me (such as a ranking of good places near me or the possibility to find “online friends” near me) I would happily use and talk about it to my friends, which in turn would result in more users = more business opportunities.

Well, to bad your invites are only for people in San Diego. I’ve put my name on the waiting list there and hopefully they will start sending invites to people here in Sao Paulo - Brazil soon. :)

Best,
Leo

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