Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android
Brightkite for Android is the best version yet
by Jay Hathaway Jun 30th 2009 at 3:00PM
The long-awaited app - there were reports over a year ago that it was in the works - takes advantage of Android's built in Google maps to let you visualize your friends' locations instead of reading them in a list. It also uses Android's notifications to alert you to any new activity in your friend stream. As an iPhone owner, I'm loathe to it admit it, but this looks even better than the iPhone version of the app. The maps, especially, are a great touch.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
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Ryan Beesley said 7:27PM on 6-30-2009
I've been using it for a week now. I love it. There was a third party solution for Android that I had been using for a year, and it doesn't hold a lick to what BK have produced. That said, it doesn't use the camera intent, so if you want to use something like Snap Photo for all your camera business, that doesn't work with this release. I got an email saying it was something that they'd look at for the future.
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