{"id":2584,"date":"2009-08-21T01:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2009-08-30T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T16:29:27","slug":"brightkite-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"brightkite.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightkite.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2586\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Picture-1-150x93.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Twitter is so yesterday &#8230; I&#8217;m trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/brightkite.com\/\">brightkite.com<\/a> a location-based social network tool. If you download the iPhone app then you can &#8220;Check In&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see if this can be used for geo-games or adding a knowledge layer to locations. I can get a &#8220;Placestream&#8221; by location, but the emphasis of the interface is on friends nearby (all five people in Edmonton that I don&#8217;t care about) and what&#8217;s happening (the inane &#8220;I&#8217;m here&#8221; posts of the terminally boring.) I want to create a quality layer of location-based knowledge that someone could subscribe to, like a &#8220;Local History of Edmonton&#8221; that people could turn on to get local history in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to be collaborating with Layar, which is cool, and they do have an API &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is so yesterday &#8230; I&#8217;m trying out brightkite.com a location-based social network tool. If you download the iPhone app then you can &#8220;Check In&#8221; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">brightkite.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}