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benmarvin started following the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite.

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Equus replied 3 days ago to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I'm not affiliated at all with this guy or product, but I stumbled upon it and have used it with great success on my WM 6.1 phone. http://www.luisespinosa.com/trackme_e...
I use it w/my GPS. It writes KML files and uploads them to Google, where I can then track my movements nearly Live. It has an option to look for 'friends' but I assume those are just people that use the service. Where I live, there are never any. But if this guy can schelp together something like this, I assume BrightKite can out-do this. Real-time /semi realtime tracking of friends etc. Every location (address etc) can be converted to GPS coordinates.. and vice versa. This is more like what I thought/hoped BrightKite would be about.

David replied 4 days ago to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

Even without GPS you should be able to do some rough location finding using mobile phone masts. In fact I assumed that feature was the core of the service!

Plus you should say up front which countries this feature covers when it is implemented.

David started following the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite.

Equus replied 4 days ago to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I would love this in a mobile client. I too have a GPS enabled phone. It would be nice to see visually locations of friends inside Google Maps or Msn Live Search!! I'm surprised it's not here yet, since this is a mobile client. Please pay more attention to WM phones since GPS capable phones are getting more common.

Equus started following the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison replied 4 days ago to the question "Consolidate check in and notes" in Brightkite:

You can do this with dodgeball. You SMS @place ! message

Couldn't BK implement some shortcut like that?

Jay replied 4 days ago to the question "Consolidate check in and notes" in Brightkite:

EVERYONE wants this. Versions of this request are all over this forum.

Near as I can figure, SMS just won't do that easily. I read somewhere BK is building a cross-platform phone app to check in (maybe even automatically, maybe via GPS and/or cell phone towers) and post simultaneously.

It's early days with Brightkite for sure. I'm still waiting to check in someplace and get a message back saying another user is there too. Lots of fun though!

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Mike replied 7 days ago to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I would love this too, especially since I have GPS built-in to my AT&T Tilt, it seems silly to make those of us with GPS look up the address manually.

Mike started following the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite.

A comment on the idea "Can I comment on peoples pictures and posts?" in Brightkite:

Looking forward to it. Thanks for reply. :) – texburgher, 7 days ago

Jay replied 7 days ago to the idea "Can I comment on peoples pictures and posts?" in Brightkite:

Cool. I'll look forward to that. "Conversation" is definitely a big part of what makes messaging platforms fun.

Jay started following the idea "Can I comment on peoples pictures and posts?" in Brightkite.

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Jay marked one of texburgher's replies in Brightkite as useful. texburgher replied to the idea "Automatic Check-ins == You Win".