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Its not immediately obvious to me what the difference is between these two options.

If I expand the distance to the max 4km of People Near Me, I see nothing.
Yet if I use the what's happening link, I see some activity.

Oddly this activity does not include that of my friends? Is that correct?

Sorry guess there are two questions above.

What might be neat is on each page if the help link were more context sensitive and gave you information about what that particular page was for.
Even a link to a nice little demo video would be cool.
I guess this might all come in good time :)
Keep up the good work and I dont want to distract you from thinking about
a Blackberry BK app :)

Mike

I want to be able to say "@ 07720" and have brightkite translate it to the most relioable pklacename for that zipcode whether it be Manhattan, Kings county, or New York State.

I have a moral question for all of you. Is there a line between social networking and advertising? I stumbled across this user's stream: http://brightkite.com/people/findmesexy and noticed that its more of an advertising stream than it is not.

It seems the goal has something to do with indexing and hits.

Does Brightkite frown on this or have any policies against it? I know of others who are using BK for advertising but they are much more subtle as they are actually posting real events related to themselves and periodically drop in an item or service they sell.

I'm just curious on this topic.

Hi. I have a question about a 'trusted friend'. I am rather bored by his checkins and posts which are in my neighborhood. I unchecked sending his updates to my mobile, email and stream, but they are still being sent SMS to my mobile. Is it only because I have neighborhood alerts? I would like his un-send updates settings to override the neighborhood setting.

I am with Verizon Wireless and currently use the email feature to send and update bkite account. I had put in my sms-text email address which is 1234567890@vtext.com but the confirmation link that is sent to the mobile device is cut short due to Verizon's 160 character limit. This may be a helpful suggestion if the confirmation email comes in with the confirmation url before the "please confirm your email address" intro on the notification rather than intro+url (with half the url cut off). I hope this make sense.

Unless there's another way to register and confirm sms text email address.

Thanks!

Not receiving a SMS confirmation code to my phone - phone plan through virgin mobile (not pay as you go), australia. +614XX XXX XXX number. Still receiving sms from other people though. Help! :-(

Hey, would oyu be interested in a brightkite invite? DM me your meail if so. @THEflyGIRL How's your morning by the way? :-)