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There's no reason to have to poll FE for every user - you can use the /recent API call to find recent updates. It's still a little stupid because it doesn't block until something interesting happens, and it's limited in how many results it will return - but it's better than a complete poll!

Thanks for the update Lesley. Looking forward to the announcement! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 22, 2008 11:23

Balaji, we are definitely considering users like yourself in regards to this feature. We will make sure that you are able to pull this data across all of the interfaces and not just using SMS or mobile email. :) – Lesley, on August 21, 2008 22:05

Request for Brightkite developers - please consider other options for your international users as well.

For example, sending @FE via text or mobile email might seem like a good answer for your US users. But living in Asia, neither of those really works on a long term basis.

I understand that it's difficult for you to poll FE and am willing to put up with the hassle of having to update BK separately to pick up FE data. But please give us an option via the mobile site as well! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 21, 2008 02:53

I like the @FE idea. Until Fire eagle supports pushing. – jiltedcitizen, on August 18, 2008 14:18

Jeevs, you totally nailed it...that is the challenge. – Martin May, on August 15, 2008 03:24

As I understand it, the reason Pownce has no difficulty integrating with FireEagle despite their size is because it only ever needs to know where you are when you post something. So a user action prompts the pull from FE; this is more scalable because it does not have to be happening all the time, only once in a while when you post something.

This is equivalent, in terms of practicality, to the suggestion that BrightKite should prompt the you, when checking in, to just pull from FE (also like @FE mentioned earlier).
I think this is very sensible and, from the sounds of it, feasible.

Some people might want BK to check you in automatically whenever your FE is updated (from Plazes or any other service that pushes your location to FE). This is nice because it means you will only need to check in with one service and all your FE-capable services (e.g BK, Plazes or Pownce) will be updated instantly and automatically.
This is very difficult; because it demands that BK constantly lookup the location of all of its users through FE to make sure they haven't gone from their last check in point.

I think, until FE itself supports pushing relevant data to BK (i.e when a BK user's FE location is updated, FE should let BK know to pull the new geodata), the @FE user-prompted pull is a clever and effective compromise. – jeevs sinclair, on August 14, 2008 09:35

Hi Andy, we are working on 2-way FireEagle integration. With Pownce it is slightly less complicated than what we have to deal with. – Lesley, on August 12, 2008 22:21

How is Pownce doing it then? – Andy Mesa, on August 12, 2008 21:25

Pownce now has two-way FireEagle communication, and they don't purport to be "the location based social network". Aren't they equally as big? Would they not then have the same problem?

Pls count me in as well

Yes please to two-way updates between BrightKite and Fireeagle

No email address on my mobile settings page. Didn't receive any confirmation code on my UK mobile. – Oliver Sturm, on May 09, 2008 09:29

Hopefully soon. For now you should be able to use the service via email -- just send commands to your unique @bkite.com address (listed on the mobile settings page).

Except I can't afford an iPhone as I bought an Xbox 360 ;P

Would be nice but I might not be as bothered when my iPhone arrives :)