Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android
Brightkite for Android is the best version yet
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.

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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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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