Recently active topics in Brightkite tagged with mobile

This morning I tried to email a photo to Brightkite, and I ended up getting an email back saying "Sorry, but we could not post your photo." Okay, no prob, something probably bonked, it happens. I try it again: "Sorry, but we could not post your photo."

I didn't figure it out until I got in front of a computer and tried posting the photo through the website. Turns out my wordy caption was 70 or so characters over the limit. :D Okay then! But when I was out and about, the email I got could've said something like, "Sorry, but we could not post your photo, because you do go on. There's a character limit on the caption of (x) characters. If you can edit your caption down, try it again."

Would it be possible to send more descriptive error emails?

Hello, I live in Israel and Brightkite does not appear to support Israel completely. I attempt to write the address i'm in, but Brightkite keeps bringing me back to the city page instead. My idea is that you support all addresses, regardless of wether they "exist" or not, because there are no map sites who can provide authentication. (Israeli ones can, but they don't have an API and are complex)

Here's something I'd appreciate. I dislike checking in from my iPhone (compared to my desktop browser), and I usually know where I'm going before I leave the house. It'd be nice to be able to check in as 'en route' to a location, and then send a text from my iPhone to 'complete' the ckeck-in - thus removing the 'en route' check-in from the stream and adding a traditional check-in to replace it. En route check-ins should never show up in the stream unless they're the latest item (spam!), but it'd be a good way to hook up with people - if you know somebody is en route to, say, Denny's, you could text 'em and say "Hey, mind if I come with?". Also, it'd save me having to try to type any complicated names on the iPhone (web interface *or* SMS), and just allow me to send one character to 'complete' the en route check-in (I was thinking an `@` without arguments).

Please enable a checkout system, either through IM or mobile.

PS - I *LOVE* i.brightkite.com

There's gotta be a better way to check in on your location on your mobile phone. I'm just using brightkite since yesterday. Today I went out on a local bike path and took a picture that I wanted to post. I could not search for this because it wasn't an address. I searched for the name of the trail, but that didn't work.

My thought is that there should either be some integration between brightkite and an internal gps receiver if available, or at least some way to access latlong coordinates through a more dynamic mapping tool, either via mobile browser or via the mobile version of Google maps. Optimally, I'd like to just bring up a map, zoom into my exact location, hit my screen to put a pin down, then have options to check in, placemark, post photo, etc. The current interface seems awfully clunky unless you are only using it to locate yourself at specific street addresses.

I think it would be useful to include a privacy setting selector (drop down box or radio button) on the following pages of the mobile site: check-in and note posting. Editing the privacy setting before a post is somewhat of a hassle as is. It requires browsing to the "Edit privacy" link, then changing your settings, then submitting them. This is a slow process on my frustratingly slow mobile web. It would be much easier to simply submit your preferred privacy setting along with the note or check in. As is, the place search/check in process already takes quite a few clicks and page loads. Anything to alleviate this would be helpful.

Thanks,
Alex