Brightkite is flying high

If you haven’t yet given Brightkite a try, you’re missing quite a party. Users seem to flocking to it in droves lately. I’ve started using it to regularly post my position and it’s fantastic for photo sharing. For me, it’s completely replaced twitpic, and I’m using it regular to post to Twitter and Brightkite simultaneously (Brightkite automatically cross posts to Twitter for me). It’s really neat to see what’s going on at specific places like the Brightkite HQ, around downtown Boulder, or around the Rio rooftop.

You know you’re getting somewhere when even social satire leverages your site.

ReadWriteWeb has a nice writeup on Brightkite, as does Wired, Somewhat Frank, Ars Technica and CNET.

Brightkite is well funded, still hiring, and growing their user base at a tremendous clip right now. Keep watching – they’re iterating fast and I see a few new features pop up every week. I’m really proud of how Martin, Brady, and the gang have kept on cranking after TechStars last summer.

Comment here if you want to play, and I’ll get you into the beta.