Do we need more geo/metadata services?

I started to use the geo-location system named brightkite.com some time ago. I fount it interesting that they have booth brightkite.com and bkite.com domain, and that they have chose to use the longer name as their brand. I don’t think that was a smart move, but then again, who writes urls these days.

As with a lot of geo-location site you search up your location, the site pins your location in a Google maps view, and you have your location that you can publish. You can get notified when your friends are located closely to you; and you get other location notifications. The bkite-team has understood that linking to other services like twitter. You can easily get the people you have on your twitter account, so that you can add them at bkite. You can also get your twitter status updated from bkite when you update bkite with new comments or location. Or you can get your location field updated in twitter if you don't want your twitter followers to get your location changes all the time if you change it often.

And here is today’s agenda
Why do you really want to flood your followers at twitter with your geo-location? Is it important with all this met-data in your twitter feed? There are several of these solutions, and they all have application you can install on your iPhones or android based phone, and some have apps for Symbian. But the point stays the same – if you want to know where you are – would I be using a geo-location service to find out?

But the point stays the same – if you want to know where you are – would I be using a geo-location service to find out?

So providers of geo-location, when you offer the positiblity to share this information on twitter… update the location field as default, or geo-tag each post – not post meta data.
Btw… you can find me (when I remember to update) as rygh on bkite and gowalla :-)