5 Ws Done Right

5 Ws, 6 Ws, 5 Ws and 1 H... Who cares? What did I do? When? With who? And where? That's what everybody care about! The point is that the hundreds of social networks we're involved with happens to manage one or some of these Ws. I think the other day a similar conversation was going around in Twitter but I don't remember all the details - too bad! That was around the time I started using brightkite.

Then, it got me thinking that what brightkite is doing with Twitter sharing should actually be the other way around. I'm already putting what I am doing, where and with whom on Twitter - why should I do the same thing over again at brightkite? Why should brightkite forward what I post there to Twitter? What brightkite should be doing instead is to subscribe to my Twitter feed and check me in to the locations I mention in my status updates.

Of course this proposal doesn't make anything easy for brightkite... Natural language processing is not an easy problem. And I'm not expecting any service like this to show up any time soon.But I believe that should be the value-add of brightkite.