Twitter is so yesterday … I’m trying out brightkite.com a location-based social network tool. If you download the iPhone app then you can “Check In” so your friends (or everyone) knows where you are (were). Alternatively you can post a note to your (or a nearbye) location or you can post a photo.
I want to see if this can be used for geo-games or adding a knowledge layer to locations. I can get a “Placestream” by location, but the emphasis of the interface is on friends nearby (all five people in Edmonton that I don’t care about) and what’s happening (the inane “I’m here” posts of the terminally boring.) I want to create a quality layer of location-based knowledge that someone could subscribe to, like a “Local History of Edmonton” that people could turn on to get local history in the wild.
They seem to be collaborating with Layar, which is cool, and they do have an API …