BrightKite was already the Cadillac of location-based social networking, but it just got even better with the release of an iPhone app. Checking in is a breeze using the iPhone’s GPS, and the app is pumped up with new features that make it a dramatic improvement over the old web version. There’s been a buzz around Brightkite for iPhone for some time now, and it totally lives up to the hype.The ability to message nearby users in an iChat-like interface is definitely a plus, and helps to make the service more social. “Place snapping” quickly attaches a name to your location, giving you a
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Web applications that function like familiar desktop apps are all the rage these days. Web apps already have the advantage of being accessible from everywhere, but add in a UI that works like something users already know, and you’ve got something pretty cool. Cappuccino is an up-and-coming way of getting this done, and the code is now all open-source. It’s a framework for building apps like this using some tools that are already pretty standard on the web, like Javascript, combined with what’s basically a port of Apple’s Cocoa APIs, and tying it all together with a language called
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