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amit replied on July 07, 2008 11:12 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

Cilla,

This looks a problem at your end... something in the browser is interfering with uploads...

Did you try the single upload? That might help...

www.slideshare.net/singleupload

Let me know if it did not, we'll try to help out

Cilla replied on July 07, 2008 10:54 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

I've been trying to upload for about a week now and I keep on getting this message:

The web proxy server has detected a problem.
Details...
Web Site Address http://www.slideshare.net/create/461167?
Warning Message Network read error
IP Address 208.96.55.121
Internet Connection Status Connected

Is it a problem our end or yours?

amit replied on July 07, 2008 10:47 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

Guys,

I hope it's working for everyone now... we had some problem a few days back but thats solved since

Robert Coup replied on June 29, 2008 22:47 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

Seems to work okay for me now: ~10 hours after i last tried.

Chase replied on June 29, 2008 16:05 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

I've tried various file types and am still getting OOPS. I guess miserly loves company.

A comment on the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

we've moved to slideboom.com. our project is due tonight, we cant wait any longer. – gminks, on June 29, 2008 10:57

Matt Jones replied on June 29, 2008 10:12 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

Same happening to me. At least this reassures me that it's not just me and there's something broken at their end. I guess it won't get fixed till after the weekend... :-(

Alper Çgun marked one of Matt Jones' replies in Dopplr as useful. Matt Jones replied to the question "Configure public profile".

Alper Çgun replied on June 26, 2008 16:28 to the question "Configure public profile" in Dopplr:

Looks great. http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/alper...
Thanks for letting me know!

Matt Jones replied on June 26, 2008 13:33 to the question "Configure public profile" in Dopplr:

Hi Alper - we've just launched public profiles for everyone, so you should be able to go play with it now! Sorry for the delay while we were testing...

Ted Grubb marked one of Matt Jones' replies in Dopplr as useful. Matt Jones replied to the idea "TripIt is much easier than Dopplr".

Matt Jones replied on June 05, 2008 23:33 to the idea "TripIt is much easier than Dopplr" in Dopplr:

Hello - we agree TripIt do a great job of handling your travel confirmations once you've booked. We also agree that entering stuff by hand is not great. Look! I'm doing it now! It's horrible!

Dopplr is about your future, and if you're trying to optimise your travel plans BEFORE you book stuff, we need to get the information from other places, including plain old human intervention.

We try to make that as painless as possible in the UI, so if you have any specific ideas or criticism about that, that would be great.

BUT!

We're working on a bunch of ways to get your information into Dopplr easily.

First up we've got some great ways to get the information into Dopplr from your calendaring software - like Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

(http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/02/27/new...

You can also use SMS to create trips (http://www.dopplr.com/main/faq#05-02), and we're working on a few new interesting things that we think will make it a lot easier to enter your trips in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!

amee replied on June 03, 2008 23:33 to the discussion "What sorts of comparison would best help you evaluate your carbon figures on Dopplr?" in Dopplr:

I'd like to see a visualisation of "potential CO2 savings if serendipity were fully engaged"

Alexander Baxevanis replied on June 03, 2008 09:37 to the question "Is there a way to add custom transport types to my trip?" in Dopplr:

Apparently people have already started investigated the carbon impact of human spaceflight:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/...

Alexander Baxevanis replied on June 01, 2008 17:21 to the discussion "What sorts of comparison would best help you evaluate your carbon figures on Dopplr?" in Dopplr:

Hi Matt,

assuming that people enter their travel plans in DOPPLR when they are still provisional & not fully fixed, you can embed carbon footprint comparison in the trip entry process, linked with the transport medium selection. If somebody can see that the footprint of taking a plane is X times that of taking a train, they may change their mind and their travel plans if they still can. Of course, this make sense when you can offer viable alternatives (i.e. don't try to convince somebody flying from London to NY to take the train!).

That's the only reasonable comparison that I can think of - I can't see what you could compare a yearly (or monthly) total to. You could try to plot it against a distribution of carbon footprints of other travellers gathered through DOPPLR, but who's to say that this is representative of the whole population? If anything, it may be skewed upwards, and give people the illusion that their carbon footprint is as much as their peer group, and that's OK.

Hope this helps - disclaimer: I don't use the carbon feature as I think it's pointless to try and over-optimise life like that, so I may be missing something important here ;-)

Cheers,
Alex

Matt Jones started a conversation in Dopplr on May 28, 2008 14:49:

What sorts of comparison would best help you evaluate your carbon figures on Dopplr?

What would serve as a good comparison for evaluating your carbon?

At the moment Dopplr shows you the raw figures, but we realise without independent research it's tricky to know what that means.

We're chatting with the good folk at http://www.amee.cc who power our calculator about this, but wanted to open up the discussion here...

BTW - a while back I asked what the carbon footprint of freezing Han Solo in Carbonite would be (http://tinyurl.com/6mac24), but I figure we might run into some trouble if we used "Solos" as a unit of comparison... ;-)

tylerwillis replied on May 23, 2008 19:57 to the problem "Won't someone think about the Welsh?" in Pheltup:

You don't even know what this word means in klingon. You welsh are lucky.

Alexander Baxevanis replied on May 23, 2008 12:49 to the question "Is there a way to add custom transport types to my trip?" in Dopplr:

Just wait until space travel becomes mainstream & you'll have to design DOPPLR INTRGALACTK (BETA) - how do you calculate the impact of ion propulsion engines emitting ions that pollute the space vacuum? I guess the space-friendly way of traveling will be by solar sail...

Matt Jones replied on May 23, 2008 12:39 to the question "Is there a way to add custom transport types to my trip?" in Dopplr:

"Other" might allow us to enter the carbon data from ESA's Ariane-5 Rocket that AMEE have... although not sure we have 'geo-stationary orbit' as a destination.

MattJ replied on May 22, 2008 16:48 to the problem "Making multi-stop trips better" in Dopplr:

Hi Simon, we're making some tweaks that might solve your problem with editing multi-stop trips on Dopplr. Any other thoughts on how we could improve it?