Recently created questions in Brightkite

not getting confirmation code for Nokia software D6215YT05_8.155 with Verizon???

Honestly, is there some sort of terms-of-service clause that is or can/should be violated by posting ridiculous nonsense minutiae that has little to nothing to do with checking in anywhere? I swear I can't check in at home any more because I am inundated by meaningless posts by one 'neighbor' in particular. I tried blocking him, but proximity overrules. I hate it. Help.

I have been using my BlackBerry to checkin via emails for awhile with no problems, but all of a sudden it stopped working. Now when I try to checkin using either a placemark or a new address, I get a reply saying Sorry, but we didn't understand you. To post a note here, reply with SAY YOURNOTE'.

1. Currently can't check in from the web. Tried through the search bar and my place marks list. In both cases the page reloads (or throbber throbs), but I'm still checked in at my last location.


2. I last checked in about 3 hours ago from SMS, but the time in Brightkite is off by 2 hours. (Says I checked in only 1 hour ago)


3. My updates don't appear on my public stream despite having my Everyone Else privacy settings set to "city". The last item on my public list is from last evening, but I've checked in twice (failed check in not included) and posted at least 4 notes since then.


4. My notes and pictures don't cross post to Twitter despite having Twitter sharing enabled and the appropriate privacy settings.

I would love to keep using this application (would in fact use it as a proxy for Twitter) but it seems like it's still too broken to be reliably usable, even for a beta.

Times shown on posts are really odd this morning. I made a post about 5 minutes ago which says I posted it at 20.52 on Oct 3rd (really 8.52 Oct 4th) - then a comment I made on it (to the effect that the time was wrong) shows as being made "about 5 hours ago". Hovering over the time on my post, I see it shows "MDT" - what's that, Mountain Daylight Time? - although it still wouldn't be right even then. My settings are UTC. I see that another person who is in my area also has her posts showing as MDT, but posts she made several hours ago are higher than mine in my friendstream.

I've defined some locations for hotels outside the U.S. where I frequently stay, using lat/long coordinates. Here's one:

http://brightkite.com/places/3af038ec...

And here's another that I defined a number of weeks later:

http://brightkite.com/places/9788c228...

Note that in the first case, the location shows the name I defined, along with the lat/long coordinates in parentheses. The second shows the name I defined, but in parentheses it shows only the country code of the location (PH). The latter behavior (country code only) seems to occur with all the new locations I've created this way.

One problem is that when Brightkite updates Fire Eagle with one of these new locations, it updates the location not with the lat/long coordinates but with the country only, as if I'd gone to Fire Eagle and simply typed in "Philippines" as my location. This puts me at a considerable distance from my actual location.

Is this a bug, or is something else happening that I don't understand?

I registered for an invite on the site, but alas I have not received one yet.

Will more invites be distributed soon?

The link you sent me to reset my password comes back here:
http://brightkite.com/account/forgot_...

So with Apples change on the NDA, does that mean we can get more info on the BrightKite native app?

I think better if I can post some photos in one post. Also if I can use the newline while commenting

Can you pass date ranges (or at least a start date) param(s) when retrieving the rss feed to get back only a subset of posts?

I want only my trusted friends to see my posts, but, since I don't know how to do this, no one is seeing my posts.

how do you post via web?

Is it possible to set up an option to send a mobile alert every so often that asks if you're still at a certain location? I keep forgetting to check out of some places. I like reminders. =]

I am a pretty prolific BrightKite user and tend to chronicle my comings and goings pretty reliably. In most cases, I don't mind sharing my exact location with the world, but the exception to that is when I'm home; I don't want to broadcast my precise home address. Other than manually setting privacy before checking in at home (and subsequently setting the privacy level to 'public' before checking in somewhere else), is there a way to designate that a specific location is *always* private?

Does anybody post notes or photos at moving locations (i.e. the bus, the metro, etc.)? I take the bus everyday and funny stuff happens on it that I like to post, but I'm not sure where to post it. (I've been posting it at the station, but it doesn't seem right.)

I just found out that my last two bkite.com URLs from Twitter-Sharing do not seem to work. I get an page not found error.

find some way to get me my login id