My 2009 wishlist for Brightkite

I also wish: Comments on Mobile!!!!!!

Oh oh... Another one... Re-post function. I may subscribe to someone that posts something that my group of friends would find interesting.

In order:

1. Favorites (anything: note, photo, check in, location, etc)
2. Walls for my friendstream (or even just select users)
3. A way to embed my visited places map.
4. Better Flickr support:
a. Add specific tags automatically (ie. "Brightkite" "mobile")
b. Ability to customize what is the title/description.
5. Better Facebook status updates:
a. Customization same as Twitter.
6. Advanced search:
a. Search only my own posts.
b. Hashtag support.
7. Viddler video posts!!!

I like all these.
I would like to see some kind of integration with Yelp! So if you are in an area you can see highly recommended places for lunch or hotel. This would come in handy for as much as I travel for wrestling.

I'm going to 2nd the nomination of comments from mobile.. perhaps reply to an SMS and have it attach as a comment like Utterli does and add...

FIRE EAGLE 2-way integration and/or apps that will allow one-button "i am here" notifications based on phone GPS readings. (Blackberry fan here but i'm sure WinMobile + iPhone needed as well)

All good ideas.

This one's simple: After you accept a friend request, and you get the message saying that the request was successful, have the username become a link to that person's stream.

A Blackberry Application.

1) Editable posts
2) Edit your own comments (for maybe a 5min window, like digg)
3) Comment moderation (?)
4) Post tagging (this will help with Flickr integration)

hmmm, there's probably more :)

I would definitely love to be able to do more with places. Rate them, reviews, mark them as "want to visit," create meetups with iCal reminders, etc. Basically, gobble up everything Whirrl and Meetup are doing so Brightkite can become about both people *and* places.

With that, I would also love to be able to use Brightkite as a sort of gallery for what I've done at a place. For example, I wish I could link my family and friends to something like brightkite.com/people/chartier/gallery/chicago to show them all the photos and notes I've posted in Chicago, IL. Going farther down this train of thought, it would be great to customize this, so I could create an event/album/gallery name, like "Dave Matthews Concert," and collect all the photos and notes I posted for that evening, including stuff from dinner, notes posted earlier in the day about being excited to go, etc.

I'm not sure how the UI and functionality would work for creating these, but I think it could be summarized easily: Brightkite can be about three things: people, places, and events.

5) Better photo preview when posting through the iphone.

love the events/meetups idea amy!

6) Larger profile photos!!!

Would also be nice to get some GPS usability on non iPhones.

here's my wishlist

1: Block Ping.fm. I am so fed up with all the non-location-related junk I see. Haha, you made signups open so people who feel a need to microblog to every service because they're not really interested in a community but just see it as alternatives to RSS can join and post irrelevant junk! Nice!
2: Display the source of the posts! Web, Mobile Web, Ping.fm, etc!
3: Since it looks like Fire Eagle will never be as smart as Bright Kite and support 'trusted friends' options with a flag "this location is private" (I blogged about this), give me the option to limit what information I give to Fire Eagle. Preferably the option to see Fire Eagle as a non-trusted friend.

i wish that i could have the option to animate the 'visited places' map, i.e. you could specify a timeframe (eg. November 08 - December 08) and flags/markers would pop up in sequential order - if a place had been visited more than once, the flag could grow slightly larger or change colour.

I should add to this thread my intentions for the ideas.

I know BK has lot's of things already on thier list to get the service to a non-beta state. I was thinking of gathering ideas more for the 2.0 version. :)

iPhone App
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1. Comment Stream
2. Map of friends and/or nearby users
3. Track/Untrack Comments

Brightkite Service
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1. Comment from within the comment stream like you can in the mentions stream.
2. Trends (like Twitter has)
3. Advanced search
4. When posting a note/photo, have the ability to prevent it from going to your shared social services
5. Ability to more intelligently name a location and/or add a location
6. Groups
7. Personal stats [like post/comment count etc.] (however this could probably be done through the API)
8. Business reviews (without taking from or cluttering Brightkite as it what it is today)
9. Comment from SMS

I'll add more as I think of them.

The iphone app is missing the ability to open links posted in notes, as is the iPhone web app.

Less emphasis on the iPhone application and more emphasis on other platforms :)

Blackberry
Symbian
Windows Mobile
Android
etc

Thanks

Removal of the "Click to Continue" box when you have posted a photo/comment etc. Is this really needed?

#1: Loopt-style (pin-drop) mapping online and especially on the iPhone app! I wanna see where my friends are on the map in relation to each other, or even see other users on the map. I have several friends that still use Loopt over Brightkite because of this feature alone, and I bet they aren't the only users you could pick up with this feature!

#2: MySpace status update support, plz. I have some friends/family stuck in 2 years ago that still use MySpace exclusively.