If you like dodgeball and use twitter, brightkite is your new best friend. The down and dirty of the site is simply this: create an account and get ready to learn a shit load of SMS commands to control your account.

What can you do: Check into a location, write notes for that location, save’m as placemarks, message your friends, make new friends, and do all the fun that you can expect to do on a social network.

The application is still in development, but the promise of GPS, phone apps, and other fun stuff are still to come. Here are a few things that might … actually WILL come in handy:

1. The SMS cheat sheet: http://brightkite.com/help/sms_guide

2. The SMS reference guide: http://brightkite.com/help/sms_reference

3. The Blog: http://blog.brightkite.com/

All in all, I like it. It’s handy and social network friendly. But, they do have a ways to go for a few things, and I kind of hope they rely more on Twitter and Pownce than relying on their own micro-blogging system… That’s just me though. Woohoo!