"Do you have a
Brightkite invite yet?"
I was asked that question at least three times at last month's
Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, one of those gatherings where an invitation to the latest private-beta social network is a coveted status symbol. And at this iteration of the Web 2.0 Expo, the
private beta of choice was Brightkite, a Denver-based start-up that uses both a Web interface and SMS text-messaging to log your location and broadcast it to your friends. It's a lot like a more feature-intensive version of
Dodgeball, a mobile networking site that debuted in 2004 and was eventually
acquired by Google before quietly fading into has-been status.
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Source: The Social
May 7, 2008, 06:59 PM
