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andy cochrane replied on December 07, 2008 21:37 to the idea "Make it easy to find friends." in Twitter:

Yup. Finding people to follow is... near impossible without a hotmail/gmail account. I've found that the twittellator iPhone app is actually the only reasonable way to do this!

andy cochrane started following the idea "Make it easy to find friends." in Twitter.

andy cochrane replied on May 09, 2008 19:43 to the question "More Invites Pretty Please?" in Brightkite:

seconded... this service is really only as useful as the people you know on it... so i'd like to invite more people who i can use it with!!!!

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andy cochrane started following the idea "It would be cool to offer a "check out" feature." in Brightkite.

andy cochrane started following the idea "finding and adding friends on brightkite" in Brightkite.

andy cochrane started following the question "You Are here iPhone check in?" in Brightkite.

andy cochrane started following the idea "Add "send message" icon to stream next to friends" in Brightkite.

andy cochrane replied on May 08, 2008 18:56 to the question "The confirmation bubbles are annoying" in Brightkite:

i agree- they should close after a second or two (as most on facebook do)

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andy cochrane started following the idea "merging existing location nodes" in Brightkite.

andy cochrane replied on May 08, 2008 02:47 to the idea "work hand in hand with iPhone maps" in Brightkite:

ok that is really nice! now one more map request for the iphone version- can I see all of my friends on the same map at once the way i can online in the "map view" under the friends section??

andy cochrane marked one of Tony's replies in Brightkite as useful. Tony replied to the idea "work hand in hand with iPhone maps".

andy cochrane shared an idea in Brightkite on May 08, 2008 00:59:

work hand in hand with iPhone maps

the iPhone app is great (works faster than any iPhone web app yet!), but I want more. Specifically, I want to be able to send an address (the location of a friend etc) to the Google map application so that I can get driving directions from where I am to where they are.

When the 2nd gen iPhone comes out you guys had better work GPS into the mix ;)

andy cochrane asked a question in Brightkite on May 08, 2008 00:52:

requests for invites just diluting this system!

I have an idea for you guys- don't ask people to ask for invites, it's clogging up this system and creating 100s of redundant posts. Instead do this:

Give us all 3 invites, if our 3 invited people log in and use the system, reward us with 3 more invites, etc. etc.

this encourages us to get others more active on the site, and gets rid of all these damn friend invite requests in here!!!!

andy cochrane replied on May 08, 2008 00:49 to the question "Support for OpenID" in Brightkite:

+1 everyone should start with support for openid right fromt eh get-go. too many accounts!!!!!!

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andy cochrane started following the question "Interacting with the friends map" in Brightkite.

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andy cochrane replied on May 08, 2008 00:43 to the idea "Map view of Around Me" in Brightkite:

YES. I thought this functionality would just be in here, searched for it b/c it seems so basic and obvious. I second the filter by time as well- seems like a lot of check ins currently are old by the time you get somewhere (you guys need to time bomb those and add checkout functionality)