Brightkite opens up functionality to Flickr and Facebook

Brightkite, the microblog with location features, will now let you share information with Flickr and Facebook. If you post a photo to your Brightkite account, your photo will also be uploaded to Flickr, with your post as the photo title. The same with Facebook, though there the posts will be separated out between location status updates, text posts and photos. This kind of cross-platform functionality is important to social media, as it both allows a user to meet different people on different sites. It also cuts down on a platform's own overhead, since, as in this example, Brightkite doesn't need to come up with their own Flickr or Facebook solutions. I'm personally a big fan of Brightkite, but that's not the point here: The point is if you are looking to get into social media, you will need to do more than simply create a Twitter account. In fact, you will need to be in a number of places, each with it's own reason for being important to you and what you do. Twitter may even end up being the last place you ever post to, using it strictly to coss-post onto from the other platforms you use more. As another example, Twitter receives posts I make on Friendfeed, Brightkite, photo uploads to Flickr are marked there, videos I ad to Vimeo are linked to from there... I do this because Twitter is where all the traffic is, and I can direct these new friends to the other things I'm doing online, which can be far more interesting than what I can come up with in 140 characters or less. So far the plug-ins work great. Check them out, and write back what you think of them!