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The app will be free. :) – Lesley, on October 13, 2008 15:41

I agree with haruszpapa... more transparency and clear explanation of the delay, or set a date and stick with it for better or worse. You're starting to lose me a little bit with the vague postponing, and I dropped Twitter as my main microblogging for you guys because I think you do it right most of the time... The iPhone delay seems kind of silly at this point. I say it with love, but get yer butts to iTunes and release the app already. ;) – Brandice, on October 11, 2008 03:19

is the iphone app gonna be free or pay???

Wow this looks great! Can't wait to give this a try

thanks for the update! the app looks fantastic, and i can't wait to use it. – quepol, on October 08, 2008 09:25

yes, a date would be nice. or at least more transparency on progress – haruszpapa, on October 07, 2008 20:34

DITTO – haruszpapa, on October 07, 2008 20:32

Nice!

Are we ever going to get a date? :-\ I think thats what most people are waiting for. – Arnold, on October 07, 2008 17:00

Thanks to everyone for their patience. The iPhone app is coming along very nicely, I have included a couple of screenshots:

We can automatically guess where you are:



Chatting with people:



Nearby people:



Nearby activity:



We are also putting a video together that shows the app in action, so stay tuned...

Ditto.. getting tired of the wait. Thinking of using loopt now that they have a new version out. Any sort of update on the brightkite app would be nice.

Just one more vote in favor of post editing. Just today I sent an email check-in from my phone and then posted a photo. However, I'm on Verizon and didn't know that Brightkite had again stopped accepting emails from the Verizon domain. So, the photo posted, but it had the wrong location attached to it (the prior check-in). I'd like to be able to fix it.

Yes, it's most definitely that, I can scroll down the list of people near me, then as soon as it comes across someone with a faulty avatar the screen freezes then comes out of the app. It's nice to see the Avatars, maybe the next version could have the ability to switch them off (i.e. give a lot more switchable options) – Zol., on July 21, 2008 17:16

A week? :( Apple :(
Is there any way that the email address' used to sign up could be notified of the release immediately? I'd much rather use Twinkle than Twitterrific but I don't have a choice right now. – houltmac, on July 21, 2008 14:53

Kristin, the edit option is still in the works and it will help to remedy the issues you are describing. Stay tuned for this feature. :) – Lesley, on July 21, 2008 14:47

same here, and it's easy to pin on the avatars... everything works fine until twinkle needs to load avatars...

the strange thing is in the beginning it worked fine...

I'd still like to be able to TOGGLE the privacy settings after I've done a checkin and realize the settings were wrong. I'd also like it if after the privacy settings are toggled (assuming the toggle is private to public not vice a versa) then either

(1) I'm asked if I'd like to propagate the checkin through to twitter; or
(2) the now-public check in is automatically propagated through to twitter for me

I guess for (2) you'd have to have some kind of "if this checkin occurred within the last xxx minutes of the privacy setting toggle" condition or else you'd always be sending my last checkin through.

I do a lot more checkins by phone than by email and I definitely forget how to toggle privacy via phone.

The absolute ideal for me would be to combine this toggle on demand with the ability to set the privacy settings on check in done by SMS / mobile by simply adding something to the subject or body of the message (IOW, add a var which if missing just leaves the settings as is or if present, changes the settings to whatever value - "public" or "private" - is sent -- and *DO* KISS :) and let users type the word "public" or "private" for specifying the setting.

Forex, sending the message:

To: abc123@bkite.com (user's personalized bkite address)
Subject: public, my message goes here and will get posted to twitter cause I remembered to change the setting first

versus

To: abc123@bkite.com (user's personalized bkite address)
Subject: private, since I'm in a secret meeting I don't want anyone to know where I am

and of course the necessary default situation:

To: abc123@bkite.com (we know this right?)
Subject: having fun in all the wrong spaces

<< with no "public" or "private" setting specified, so your processing script will need to have an "if NULL" type of situation.

Thanks! :-)

Webbiegrrl
still dissatisfied with privacy toggles and wisting for the perfect world but really loving the special snowflake that is bkite :)