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Alec Clews replied on December 04, 2008 21:16 to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?" in Ping.fm:

Works for me -- just tested it. Did you re-authorise? (see above)

Alec Clews replied on December 03, 2008 21:33 to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?" in Ping.fm:

+1

Thanks

Alec Clews marked one of Adam's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Adam replied to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?". Alec Clews and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Alec Clews replied on December 03, 2008 03:27 to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?" in Ping.fm:

Still not working for me.......

Alec Clews replied on December 03, 2008 03:14 to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?" in Ping.fm:

and now the AUS jabber server is down so I can't test. ARH!

Thanks

Alec Clews replied on December 02, 2008 23:58 to the problem "Jabber IM interface seems to be down?" in Ping.fm:

Not sure what soon means, but FYI it's still down...

Alec Clews started following the question "Updates Via Instant Messaging" in Brightkite.

Alec Clews started following the idea "Ohloh integration" in Ping.fm.

Alec Clews shared an idea in Voga Consulting Services on September 04, 2008 02:15:

Recommonded ALM Tools for Agile Perl

I'd really like to see a 'reference platform' for Perl Agile development. It would contain a list of recommended work flows, tools and set-up instructions. I have some holiday coming up... perhaps I'll get some time to start something off

(ALM = Application Lifecycle Management)

Alec Clews replied on September 02, 2008 00:47 to the question "How do I feed RSS into Ping.fm?" in Ping.fm:

I've got around this problem by using twitterfeed to post to twitter and identi.ca. Jaiku and FriendFeed support RSS feeds directly (Jaiku albeit on a very delayed cycle).

The rest I try not to care about :-)

Alec Clews started following the idea "Cross-posting photos to Flickr with location data" in Brightkite.

Alec Clews started following the question "Could Posterous be added to the list of supported sites?" in Ping.fm.

Alec Clews started following the idea "Location Updates?" in Ping.fm.

Alec Clews replied on July 22, 2008 23:12 to the question "How do I feed RSS into Ping.fm?" in Ping.fm:

At the moment the answer seems to depend on the exact mix of services you use. I figure that probably the best way could be via Yahoo Pipes and the Ping.fm custom URL feature -- but that's just guessing on my part.

Alec Clews replied on July 15, 2008 06:43 to the problem "Friendfeed support seems to have stopped working" in Ping.fm:

Well it's been working for 4 days non-stop so I guess the throttle has been raised. Kewl.

Many thanks.

Alec Clews replied on July 10, 2008 23:37 to the problem "Friendfeed support seems to have stopped working" in Ping.fm:

I notice friendfeed is now working again. Has the throttle issue been resolved or is it just temporary until the limit is exceeded again?

Thanks

Alec Clews replied on July 10, 2008 00:03 to the question "Adium support" in Ping.fm:

As Twitterrific is a desktop client is can reach out to Adium on the same machine and update status. As Ping.fm is web only it cannot update your local client.

When someone creates a Mac client for Ping.fm then it should be possible . There is a published API and some C#/.NET examples so it can be done.

Alec Clews replied on July 09, 2008 01:29 to the problem "Friendfeed support seems to have stopped working" in Ping.fm:

Thanks matey!

Alec Clews replied on July 09, 2008 00:30 to the question "Any luck breaking those access codes Data?" in Ping.fm:

Send me a message < alecclews at gmail dot com > and I'll send you one

Alec Clews replied on July 08, 2008 23:32 to the discussion "OpenID: READ BEFORE POSTING A THREAD ABOUT OPENID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in Ping.fm:

Please feel free to delete this post if it's not helping the conversation.

I'm going to side with Getsatisfication and ping.fm on this one.

These are free of charge services and of good quality. As a software guy I can appreciate the HUGE amount of work that goes into running services like this (new features, security, scalability, usability etc). It's an enormous commitment.

If we can't spend an extra 3 mins looking through the tags to see if something is an existing topic then perhaps we don't deserve such services. The tremendous value of the Internet depends on co-operation and self-help, otherwise the whole thing would grind to a halt.

BTW, I'm not naive and I assume that both ping and getsatisfaction at some point have plans to turn this into a revenue stream; and good on them I say. However I get value from these services now without paying a penny -- three minutes to make sure I ask a proper question or raise a useful bug is a basic courtesy as far as I am concerned.

I always try and keep Eric Raymond's How to Ask Questions the Smart Way at the front of my mind. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-q...

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