Tag Archive: Brightkite

Why I think Brightkite chose to close location services

Brightkite was a leader in the check-in space. Competition came along just as any industry evolves. Soon the media was measuring, weighing and comparing capabilities.

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Location Awareness – what service and who to share with

These questions came across my Twitter stream asking what location service should they use, why that particular one and who should they share intimate location details with as compared to general or no one at all.  After pondering all the location services I use, who is on them and why I use them, it was…

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Foursquare and restaurants – social media and in person traffic

As I became mayor of a local restaurant on FourSquare and it was sent out via Twitter I was asked what value I get from that?  Well some of the restaurants are grabbing ahold of driving in person traffic and the game that FourSquare has become. Let me explain further.  A restaurant sees, sometimes accidentally,…

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