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A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall

Source: ReadWriteWeb

3 days ago

Summary

Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they're seeing on stage or in and around the venue. Twitter has always been the microblogging platform of choice in this scenario, but starting today, they just might have new competition from Brightkite, the mobile social networking service that's making a name for itself among the early adopters.

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Last night, Brightkite released a new feature for their mobile social networking platform called the "Brightkite Wall." This wall displays the live stream of notes, photos, and checkins at any one place. When launched full screen, the Brightkite Wall's placestream can be shown on any monitor, projector, or TV, which obviously makes it perfect for conferences and events.

Using the Wall

To get started, simply browse to the desired place and click the new Wall tab. Then click on the embedded Brightkite Wall to go full screen. Organizers can

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