Show us your app!

[mcollins]

Hi Everyone,

If you're working on an app or mashup that's using the BK API, we'd
love to see it. It's OK if it's not 100% finished, we're just
interested in seeing what kinds of things other folks are using the
API for.

If you have something that you've already put up somewhere and want to
show off, post a link to this thread so we can all check it out.

Jason Emerick has already posted about his Brightkite Blackberry app,
BBPlacemarks:
http://bbrtm.org/bbplacemarks/

And Michael Rice has put up a Brightkite / Google Maps mashup:
http://labs.michaelrubenrice.com/whereami.html

Keep 'em coming!

Mike

[d saxman]

I still can't get the API calls to work from C#, so my windows mobile app isn't anywhere near working.  I send Brent a video a while back of what I was thinking about.  Here is that link, although I've changed the UI some since then.

http://dsaxman.com/files/media/media/brightkitemobile1.wmv

[Eric Moore]

I also can't get authentication to work from c#.  I'm using Visual Studio 2008, dotnet framework 3.5 in a windows desktop app.  Api calls without authentication work fine.  I have classes for each of the objects in the documentation with code to load data into the classes given appropriate XML which is returned from the api calls.  As I said, tested with with Places api call which doesn't require authentication, works fine.  Tested with Me.xml and it fails.  I tried MS recommended pre-authentication using HEAD and it still fails.  I haven't had time this week to look at it again, but I'll try some more this weekend.

[d saxman]

Eric, I just posted my sample code on the C# thread - http://groups.google.com/group/brightkite-api/browse_thread/thread/dfe663b2e767ea70#

Can you confirm you are using similar code?  the MS recommended pre-auth you reference come from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908573 or another KB article?

[Sean]

We've ported our site to use the API and have included a couple more
features that the API allows us to access. Looking forward to rolling
this out.

Sean
Ping.fm

[Pims]

Hi all,

I've hacked a little something at http://pims.appspot.com/
It's not much, but maybe someone will find that somehow helpful...

suggestions, critics, remarks are all welcome :)
Thx to the Bkite team, you're doing a terrific job !

Pims

[Martin May]

Cool...keep us posted :)

[Martin May]

Nice job. So this is using Brightkite's location to mash up with
Summize, or are you using a different service for the Twitter location
search?

On Aug 8, 7:04 pm, Pims <timmy.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>

> I've hacked a little something athttp://pims.appspot.com/

[Pims]

Martin,

Yup, I'm using summize API to deal with twitter location. it's easy as
pie :)

there's no rocket science behind it, but if someone want the source
code, just drop me a message on twitter / bk (pims)

I have more coming soon :)

[Sean]

We're ported our current functionality to use the REST API. We will
be adding more location-specific features soon as well as porting
everything over to OAuth.

Nice work on the API guys!

Sean
Ping.fm

On Jul 25, 12:20 pm, mcollins <collins.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Martin May]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up, and let us know if there are things
you'd like to see in the API that are missing.

Martin

[David Carrington]

I've been trying to generate a map of usage in the UK. The feeds/API
let you search within XX km of an area for nearby people - but this
doesn't tell you the coordinates of those people without doing a
lookup on each user.

Instead, I generated a Yahoo Pipe that pulls the universe RSS feed and
filters it to only include items near the UK:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=JPIJXr513RGRclcVrbQIDg&_render=rss

The next step up was to pull this feed into a website and plot the
points on a map suitable for my mobile (480x640 with pixel doubling on
images):
http://brandedthoughts.co.uk/dev/brightkite/uk_map.php

Really I'd just like to find a mobile-friendly page that shows a map
of the nearest XX users. I've not used Yahoo Pipes before and I'm
getting some caching issues.

[Martin May]

We'll try to add a way to get the location on the search results.

On Aug 29, 6:53 am, David Carrington <david.carring...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been trying to generate a map of usage in the UK. The feeds/API
> let you search within XX km of an area for nearby people - but this
> doesn't tell you the coordinates of those people without doing a
> lookup on each user.
>
> Instead, I generated a Yahoo Pipe that pulls the universe RSS feed and

> filters it to only include items near the UK:http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=JPIJXr513RGRclcVrbQIDg&_ren...

[Heather M. Duey]

After working on this from long before the API was available, I've decided
to "announce" the game - Can U Find Me? (http://www.canufind.me). It does
not so much use the API as it only posts a photo to your Brightkite account
using your Brightkite email (I chose this because if you are a registered
user of Can U Find Me, you can email your photos into the system and
everything is done on the fly, not requiring login).

At any rate, Can U Find Me is essentially an online version of
hide-and-seek. Post a photo (sending emails to your friends/Bkite/Twitter)
and let them guess where you are (there is also a widget you can put on your
blog/web site if you are so inclined). It's very beta, be warned.

Any suggestions, criticisms, improvements, etc are welcome. Keep in mind,
"It's only a game!"

Thanks,
Heather Duey

[egilchri]

I thought I should hop on this email thread.

My app is voice notes for Brightkite. The concept is still taking
shape for me, but the site is at:

http://vnoted.com

So far, I've built the ability to phone in a voice note, and to play
it back, either from your phone, or from the web. I'm currently
working on the ability to offer your placemarks in a voice menu, to
enable this as a way to check in.

I'm also planning on plugging in some location base services I've
worked on elsewhere. These include location-based weather reports, and
tide reporting. Out there in the Rockies, tides are not so relevant,
so maybe I could hook up to avalanche reports or something :-)

[Rob Taylor]

Hi Folks,

Been working on a windows desktop client - mainly to allow automatic
check-ins when I boot up / unlock my computer (as I never remember to
manually check in when I get to work). You can post notes and I've
*almost* finished testing friend / location update notifications. Very
rough at the moment - but would love any feedback.

http://www.winkite.com

Pims - a great idea and Heather, I like the look of CanYouFind.Me -
very creative use of the BrightKite API!

Cheers,
Rob