Popping up in the Ovi Store is a native Symbian S60 widget for the social network Brightkite. As the service is based around your location, “checking in” on a mobile device is one of the key actions – previously you could use the website to let everyone know where you are, but this is a much more elegant solution.
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I know you were one of the first sites to jump on this whole "location aware" thing because frankly, Symbian lead the way in the technology...but seriously, this whole thing is through.
You guys have been trying to make the whole location service thing "happen" for a couple of years now...and it's just not happening, yet you keep predicting it will.
Let's be fair, the iPhone is one of the most popular devices out there with this sort of thing on it and even with Google Latitude, Twitter clients with geo-tagging, location aware search apps...it's not taken off. The general consensus; it's creepy and annoying and drains your batteries.
Now the iPhone crowd are the first to jump on stuff like this because, well frankly they're a little easy to lead and quite impressionable that way. If the blogs and Twitter tell them it's cool then it's cool...they STILL don't think this stuff is cool.
Let it go already.
All this social (local or not) stuff is just uselessware, crappyware, whatever... My personal life is simply more important than just spending hours online.
My life is more important too, however social media is getting my life easier and better in many ways. Top of that, if you figure out how easy it is earn online, you'll will have more time for "real life" with family and friends on realitime.