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I have a profile on Brightkite. It is an interesting service, though I am hesitant to use it for anything besides check-ins. They let you post notes there, but that seems like it belongs on my weblog, not a social mapping site.

The thing I am playing with today is how it interacts with Twitter. I have been conscious of how I use Twitter since Fanime, secretly hoping my personal restraint would somehow alleviate the load while they figured it out. I’m over it. Time to plugin another social site!

Something that I found hilarious/frustrating over the last week was my relationship with my Blackberry. In Brightkite you can have check-ins and posts be sent to either your phone (SMS), your e-mail, or both. So someone I knew would check-in and I would receive it as a text message, then Twitter would send it (they had their account post that). Then Twitter would send it again, because it was broken, and then I would receive the e-mail notification.

I was not able to get to a computer to change this, and had info overload. At this point it doesn’t really make much sense to have a service send a message to my phone if it can also send me e-mail. It got me thinking about accessing text messages the same way as e-mail, with similar client functionalities. I like the idea of “push” e-mail, and if I could save and sort my SMS messages (almost redundant, that) I would be a particular kind of happy. I have a techno-messaging fetish.

All said, I am going to play with Brightkite this week. I will have it post updates to Twitter, so that is the only place you need to follow, if you are interested.

Oh, are you interested? I have some invites. Direct message maiki.