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I deleted my Shozu account, that seems to have solved it. Thanks!

I would suggest making this more explicit on the help that is brought up by clicking on the question mark next to the private/public switch.

I think that there are a few ways that brightkite's checkin can work:

0 - Current way: manually check in only, currently through typed address in sms, in the future though 1 click on device app.

1 - Elliotcable's way: receive an sms notification after you stayed more than 15 minutes at the same location asking if you would like to check in there.

2 - Josh's way: you manually setup placemarks and you are automatically checked in when you are close enough to any of those placemarks. The daily routine of home-work-home would fall well into this scenario.

3 - Chris + Elliotcable's mashup way: auto check-in whenever you stay put more than 15 mins at the same location. This will check you in wherever you go but will avoid check ins along the way. Should reduce some of the notification overload.

3 - Chris's way: you automatically check-in to a place every certain amount of time/distance if you moved from where you were before. Generates a lot of messages, but is useful for bike rides and other events where route is interesting to transmit (crazy bar hoping night outs? :-) )

I don't think that the developers need to choose one of the above, instead, brightkite should aim to implement a method where ALL of the above are possible configurations. With simple default and very private settings (1 maybe) for starting novice users and then advanced settings that would allow greater and fine grained configuration of auto-checking.

The more control and application gives the user the better. No two users are alike and the more options the more likely someone will find a use for the system. Also, by giving a lot of options, Brightkite fosters innovation and emergence of new usage patterns instead of trying to lock the users into the initial designed behavior pattern.

The drawback of excessive control is that excessive freedom can be overwhelming for novice users. So there should def be progressive methods of getting into deeper setting that novice users should not be confronted with unless they feel like going into them.

I am not advocating for only auto check-in but for different levels of customization, most certainly for choosing between auto or manual check in. But possibly, as I was discussing with some brightkite folks, to be able to distinguish betwee auto and manual check-ins also on the receiving end.

So elliottcable, you should be able to specify whether you want to be notified of no check-ins, manual check-ins or auto check-ins in an increasing volume of notifications.

Let's spread this feature request. Use:

http://tinyurl.com/5oa4lg

on your posts about it on brightkite.

so I was checking the feature and realized that what I expected as popularity was the number of followers and then comments (or some function of those). It seems however that other factors are in place (maybe last post time?). Anyway, maybe there could be:

1 - a very clear description of the default function used to compute popularity in the help section (I didn't even search for that as I assumed it will not be there now).

2 - an "advanced" link somewhere on your profile where you could specify your own function (weights?) to compute popularity that makes sense to you, if you don't agree with the default method.

This should address the basic user need (default popularity function), the mid-level user (description of the default function) and the advanced user (specification of own popularity function).

Power to the user!

I just managed to setup Navizon on my iPhone so that it updates fireeagle every 10 mins, then I hooked up that to Brightkite, and now if I go to the sharing tab on my brightkite accunt it does say that fireeagle thinks I am logged somewhere. But there doesn't seem to be a way to:

1 - just click there and checkin to that address
2 - have it to automatically check-in everytime my address is updated on fireeagle.

Having to maually check in defeats the whole purpose of using fireeagle to centrally control your location. Fireeagle's concept is to have multiple application updating and reading a central location point, imagine if each of these applications required that you manually set the location in them?!

Please add this ASAP!!