Jul 15 2008
Brightkite: stalker-tool? Maybe, but still great fun.
As if we needed more applications that can aid the cyber stalkers in tracking your every move. Well, BrightKite.com may be a great tool for that jealous ex or creepy co-worker that will go out of his or her way to track your internet escapades - but this time he or she may get some exercises out of it as well as brightkite will disclose where in the ‘real world’ you are currently located.
Similar to offerings from companies like WeFi.com Brightkite will allow you to disclose to the world where you are located. But unlike for example WeFi the service is not tied to a WiFi router as this application can also be run on your iPhone for instance.
To break it down, Brightkite has three main features;
1) Telling people where you are,
2) Allowing you to send notes/photos that can be read either by friends or by people near you, and
3) You can browse for people that are close to where you are.
For those of you that are already heavy Twitter users (article about Twitter way overdue) you’ll be happy to hear that Brightkite can interact with Twitter so that location announcements and notes automagically can show up in Twitter for your friends to read.
I’ve personally used Brightkite for less than two weeks now and my experiences may differ from others since San Francisco is such a ‘wired’ city but I have already received a few friends ‘Hello’s’ from people that were a few blocks away - and once from a person in the same coffee shop 
Fun and entertaining? Absolutely.
Useful? Hm, the jury is still out on that one
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