A sign that the mashup ecosystem is maturing fast. I was happy to see that creating an embeddable map of my BrightKite check-ins was as simple as feeding my BrightKite RSS url (which contains GeoRSS) info into the search box on maps.google.com and then requesting the embed code.

Well, almost.

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It all works, but the embedded map centres at the mid-point of the set of points, which shows no points at all. I tried to get it to start on London or SF by default, but no dice. Scroll over to see more useful stuff.

BrightKite RSS urls are of the form http://brightkite.com/people/<username>/objects.rss. Have fun!