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BrightKite and Web Directions North
- In: News
- By: John
- January 21st, 2009
On my recent trip to Denver, I caught up with Brady Becker and Martin May, founders of Denver based BrightKite. BrightKite is a way of connecting with people and places based on your, and their, locations.
BrightKite embodies a number of the themes and trends I think will become increasingly significant in the coming year or so, and really impressed and excited me.
As the mobile web becomes more and more commonly used, and in effect the web will be with us wherever we are, all the time, and as devices know where we are, and learn more about us based on our behavior, whole new classes of application, both leisure and business oriented will emerge. And I think BrightKite is a cutting edge example of just such an application. As they put it BrightKite enables the creation of ad-hoc communities based on time and place, which goes beyond traditional social networks .
A big part of our conferences is not simply to be passive experiences, where the audience listens to and learns from experts, but an active experience, where people engage with and use examples of the kinds of emerging technologies that will have an influence on what the web will look like in the not too distant future.
To this end, we’ll be encouraging attendees to sign up to BrightKite, and use it on their phones and laptops at the conference. (BrightKite works via SMS as well as the web, and so works with any phone, as well as having a dedicated iPhone client (with I believe a version for Android phones in the works)).
We’ll have a BrightKite “wall” at the conference, on various screens, like this recent example at Ignite Boulder
This will show a constant stream of comments, photos, and other activity in and around the conference. It will definitely be interesting to see how BrightKite gets used on the IE8 Ski trip.
Even if you aren’t coming to the conference, I recommend you take a look at BrightKite, and play round with it - it’s free.
If you are coming to the conference, then I definitely recommend you sign up.
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