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    How to Backup Brightkite Check-ins with Momento iPhone App

    Last Fri­day Brightkite announced they would no longer sup­port check-ins to focus on group tex­ting. I was pretty bummed even though I knew they had lost the LBS race even before Face­book and Google started pay­ing atten­tion. I always felt like I tried to stick up for them even when they made threats to us […]

    Reclaiming Privacy On Facebook Is A Joke

    Every­one has been in an uproar about pri­vacy since Facebook’s new pri­vacy changes. This hap­pens every time Face­book changes any­thing. Close to half a bil­lion peo­ple have stuck around through all the changes. The irony of it all is that now devel­op­ers are releas­ing tools that uti­lize Facebook’s new privacy-ignoring fea­tures to help users “reclaim” […]

    Future of Docs is the Dot Com

    Last week at Facebook’s f8 con­fer­ence, a new site launched that’s going to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way we cre­ate and share doc­u­ments. But not a lot is going to change, it’s just going to become eas­ier than ever. Docs.com forges together Microsoft Office 2010 and Face­book to bring you one of the most famil­iar expe­ri­ences ever. […]

    Convenience and Compromise of Check.in

    Check.in is the newest cre­ation from Brightkite that allows you to check in to Brightkite, Foursquare, and Gowalla simul­ta­ne­ously. It has a very slick inter­face in the browser thanks to HTML5 and is cur­rently in invite-only beta. Check it out!

    Brightkite Group Text: The Tatango Killer?

    Last month Brightkite announced a new Group Text fea­ture that looks to be in direct com­pe­ti­tion with Tatango. I’ve used Tatango’s ser­vice in the past and wasn’t that impressed which is why I’m inter­ested to see if Brightkite can do group text mes­sag­ing better.