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A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Thanks very much for this. It makes BK much more convenient to use. What is the idea behind the "Within N meters of this place" setting? Hopefully you aren't planning to use it to select randomized locations to map. Enough randomized points can collectively show the real location pretty easily. Witness what happened with GPS. – mkb, on July 19, 2008 03:18

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Ah, excellent. That is what gives this feature addition its real punch. You ought to note that right next to the privacy radio options, as well as right next to the "Trusted Friend" checkbox. :) – texburgher, on July 18, 2008 20:25

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Your trusted friends will still be able to see your exact location, I just tested this to be sure and it worked for me. There will also be more functionality with this feature coming soon, so stay tuned. :) – Lesley, on July 18, 2008 19:45

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

When you check in or post at a location that you have marked as private, the lock icon on the post will show as locked, and vice versa. We are working on an indicator for the place pages of locations where you have applied sticky privacy settings and we are also working on a page where you would be able to see all of the locations you have applied these settings to. – Lesley, on July 18, 2008 19:16

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Hrm.. yeah that makes sense. How about some kind of visual notification that the location you're checked in at is private? Maybe like a colored border around your avatar/user image? Avatars are used frequently enough to be easy notification and it could be easily used for future brightkite clients to visually confirm your posts are private from your location. – ShadowBottle, on July 18, 2008 17:42

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Checking in to an always public/private location will not change your current privacy settings. So if you are in Public mode and check in to a location that you have marked as private, your check in and posts at this location will be private. But when you leave this location and check in somewhere else, you are still in Public mode, so your posts will be public. I hope that makes sense. – Lesley, on July 18, 2008 17:35

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

V, can you send the address you are having problems with to lesleyATbrightkiteDOTkom? We would like to test this. Thanks! – Lesley, on July 18, 2008 17:30

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

This is good but leaves one bit of control to be desired: "Trusted Friends" should ALWAYS be able to see exact location, regardless of what privacy setting you've selected for a place. Implementing that rule restores "Trusted Friends" as a class to a position of differentiation compared to "Friends." On a display note- it would be good to be able to view and add/edit/delete the exceptions on the Account Settings > Privacy page as well. That way we don't lose track of the privacy matrix we build. Great work!! – texburgher, on July 18, 2008 16:14

ShadowBottle replied on July 18, 2008 15:21 to the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Functionally speaking it doesn't APPEAR to be working. It might be, but regardless of refreshes the button still says public when switching from an always public location to an always private location. This is from web, haven't tried it from cellphone yet. So close.

V replied on July 18, 2008 14:38 to the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

That's great ... but it isn't working for my place. I can enter a full UK address with house number and postcode, and I can't see the link. For some reason, it won't "remember" the road number ... so it won't display the privacy link.

If you're adding a place at road level, the privacy option should really be displayed. If someone is trying to find you, its not hard to track you down if you know the road someone is in; just look for your car, or sit there at commute time and watch you leave or enter the house. If I have to list my home with a visible street name this isn't a very complete privacy solution.

Lesley replied on July 18, 2008 14:37 to the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

This feature is now available. For potentially sensitive locations such as exact addresses and intersections you will see a link under the "Check In Here" and "Add to Placemarks" buttons that says "Privacy at this place". For broader searches such as street, city, or state level this link is not present.

http://brightkite.com/objects/9540dae...

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

http://brightkite.com/objects/9540dae07518f594e8e95b3205430d545fe406c5 Enjoy. – John Barker, on July 18, 2008 13:26

A comment on the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

http://brightkite.com/objects/9540dae07518f594e8e95b3205430d545fe406c5 Enjoy. – John Barker, on July 18, 2008 13:26

V replied on July 18, 2008 13:06 to the idea "Attach Privacy Level to Location" in Brightkite:

Any progress on this? It'd be great to see a feature that was requested three months ago get some attention.

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A comment on the question "Placemarks not updating in Twitter Stream" in Brightkite:

One tiny suggestion: add a "Neighbourhood" setting in between "Exact" and "City" which acts like City in all respects except that it does allow the $street tag in customizations to work (and possibly show the street name next to the city on the website as well). Streets can be long, and I would really love to show street name, while still hiding the house number and exact WGS84 coordinates. Especially since I live in the fourth largest city of the Nehterlands, so almost all my day to day check ins will be in Utrecht, making "City" level a bit useless.(Saw it was already mentioned as http://is.gd/WLJ) – peSHIr, on July 18, 2008 06:18

A comment on the question "Placemarks not updating in Twitter Stream" in Brightkite:

Your privacy settings will override your Twitter customizations. So if you have your "Everyone else" settings set to City level, it will not share your street name with Twitter. We agree that it is confusing right now and we are working to make this clearer. Thanks for your patience and input on the matter. :) – Lesley, on July 17, 2008 22:52

A comment on the question "Placemarks not updating in Twitter Stream" in Brightkite:

Makes perfect sense (in hindsight!). Changed Private mode checkin settings to Exact. Hoped that would give me the streetname I would like in my Twitter updates. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case. Does $street only work in Public mode? Tip: maybe you could put an asterisk next to tags in tag list of custom messages with a "*) only works when your Public/Private mode settings allow this information to be shared" reminder at the bottom of the dialog? Or in mouseovers? Or something? Would really help users, I think. – peSHIr, on July 17, 2008 07:18

A comment on the question "Placemarks not updating in Twitter Stream" in Brightkite:

It looks like you checked in using Private mode with it set to display your City for your location. So based on your settings, the info that went to Twitter was correct. – Lesley, on July 15, 2008 21:53

A comment on the question "Placemarks not updating in Twitter Stream" in Brightkite:

Just tried it. The $street tag seems to be replaced by something, but the something is just an empty string. Result I just got: "peSHIr Mijn locatie is , Utrecht. Zie http://bkite.com/00Wm9. 2 minutes ago from web" where I expected "Mijn locatie is Klokjesbloemlaan, Utrecht." – peSHIr, on July 15, 2008 20:51