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Alexander started following the update "Flickr Fix On The Way" in Flock.

Alexander asked a question in Flock on January 14, 2009 07:02:

Autocompletion and Suggest tags from delicious when adding a favorite

Hi.

On Firefox, I used the original "Delicious Bookmarks 2.1.018" from Yahoo!. When a site was bookmarked on delicious using the AddOn, it showed recommended and popular tags for the current page. Have a look at this screenshot:



Further, when I type a letter, it shows which bookmarks match what's typed so far (ie. auto completion).

It would be cool, if Flock would also do this (ie. show "good" tags and do auto completion) at a later (but not so much... *G*) time.

Cheers,
Alexander

Alexander started following the idea "ping.fm" in Flock.

Alexander started following the idea "Add "Reply" Feature to Twitter" in Flock.

Alexander marked one of xcud's replies in pingvine as useful. xcud replied to the question "How do I list feeds that I have setup?".

A comment on the question "How do I list feeds that I have setup?" in pingvine:

Ah, okay, now I understand. In that case, I don't think that PingVine is interesting for me. – Alexander, on January 13, 2009 07:30

A comment on the question "How do I list feeds that I have setup?" in pingvine:

Hm. I don't quite get it (yet? *G*).

Suppose you've got a user who doesn't remember a thing about the URL of the feed that he gave to Pingvine. And say he added like 10 feeds (or whatever).

How would such a dumbo (like me *G*) then be able to remove the feeds? – Alexander, on January 12, 2009 15:55

Alexander asked a question in pingvine on January 12, 2009 07:42:

How do I list feeds that I have setup?

Hi.

I setup Pingvine to feed a feed :) to my Twitter account (alexs77 → http://twitter.com/alexs77). As you can see, that's working perfectly well - stuff from the feed gets send on to Twitter. Good.

Well, actually, it's working a bit *TOO* good for my taste :) Ie. there's to much stuff coming from Pingvine (or rather: from the feed) which gets send on to Twitter.

Now, how do I disable or change a feed?

In the FAQ, it says:

Q - How do I delete my RSS feed from PingVine?
A - Same steps as above but instead of submit click the button titled "Remove".

Fine - but for that to work, I'd need to know which feed I made Pingvine fetch. I forgot which feed this was.

How can I get a listing of all the feeds that Pingvine fetches for me, so that I can change the feeds settings?

Cheers,
Alex

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm encoding problem?" in Ping.fm:

Web, mail and/or IM (from Gmail, in this case). – Alexander, on January 11, 2009 19:04

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm encoding problem?" in Ping.fm:

Umlaute (ie. äöü) and other UTF-8 charcters (eg. „ or “) are also broken when ping.fm updates the LinkedIn status.

As you can see on http://twitter.com/alexs77/status/110..., I wrote:

hat Karten für „Sieben Leben“ gekauft. Sah in der Werbung nett aus. Mal schauen, wie es in echt ist.

At LinkedIn, this reads:

Alexander hat Karten f�r �Sieben Leben� gekauft. Sah in der Werbung nett aus. Mal schauen, wie es in echt ist

Es you can see, the ü in "für" (or f�r) is broken and the charachters before and after „Sieben Leben“ are broken. – Alexander, on January 10, 2009 10:45

Alexander reported a problem in Ping.fm on January 08, 2009 13:27:

Image URLs in Plurk are broken

Hi.

I posted an image through ping.fm also to Plurk. See the Plurk at http://www.plurk.com/p/chko9
The Image Link points to http://p.ping.fm/img/ly11jWAN/3b72c50. This image doesn't exist.

The image link in the Twitter tweet at http://twitter.com/alexs77/status/110... points to http://ping.fm/p/lLxbu and works.

Alexander

Alexander asked a question in Ping.fm on January 08, 2009 08:20:

ping.fm not sending updates to Plurk

Hi!

I just posted two status updates to Plurk using ping.fm (one via the Jabber IM interface and one directly from the ping.fm website) and they don't show up in Plurk.

Does anyone know what's up with that? Or did I just not wait long enough? I know waited like 5 minutes.

cheers,
Alex

Alexander asked a question in Twitter on January 04, 2009 12:05:

PlayStation3 Client?

Hi!
Does anyone know of a "native" client for the PS3? I know that I can use Twitter Web using the built-in web browser (or can't I?), but something which integrates better in the PS3 would be great.

Cheers,
Alex

Alexander marked one of DigitalEagle's replies in TwitPic as useful. DigitalEagle replied to the question "how do i upload a photo from my phone?".

A comment on the question "how do i upload a photo from my phone?" in TwitPic:

Well, I guess that question (and the number of people having that question) should tell a tale - for me, my "excuse" is, that the "settings" link is to hard to see. It's just not obvious enough (at least not for me).

But after having found it, the problem is solved, as far as I'm concerned. – Alexander, on December 29, 2008 18:58

Alexander replied on December 27, 2008 20:45 to the question "How do I manually setup a phone?" in Soocial:

Does anyone know how to do a manual setup of a Nokia 6300?

Alexander shared an idea in Ping.fm on December 27, 2008 19:33:

Use MMS text part in Flickr for descriptions and Subject for picture names

The way it is now, it's not possible for Nokia 6300 users to make full use of all the 140 chars one has available in Twitter when ping.fm is used.

Reason: When a MMS message / email is composed, I can "attach" a text part to in the "presentation" (as my Nokia 6300 calls MMS messages). Such a presentation can then be send via MMS to a phone number or via Email. When I email it to ping.fm, it posts it to Flickr (because I connected ping.fm to Flickr).

But the text is stripped in Flickr and replaced by "Posted by ping.fm". Eg. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexs77/....

The only text that "survives" is the one in the "Subject" of a message. But that subject is limited to only 40 characters (at least in my Nokia 6300 mobile phone).

Because of that, it would be good, if ping.fm would use the text "attachment" for the description of a picture in Flickr and for the body of the Twickr Tweet. And the "Subject" should be used for giving the pictures good names in flickr (ie. they should overwrite the original image names).

A comment on the problem "Ping.fm encoding problem?" in Ping.fm:

Hm, yes, I think you're right - these might be different encoding problems.

But the common thing is, that they are encoding problems :) – Alexander, on December 27, 2008 19:17

Alexander replied on December 27, 2008 16:14 to the question "Caption truncated when mailing picture to Twitpic" in TwitPic:

I'm also having this problem :/

I send a picture to TwitPic from my Nokia 6300 mobile as an MMS email and had "Cassandra & Cédric" in the Subject. If you have a look at the twitpic page at http://www.twitpic.com/wzs0, you'll see, that it got chopped off after the "C" from "Cédric" (or, put differently, it got cut at the "é"). It's of course also cut in the Twitter Tweet at http://twitter.com/alexs77/status/108...

Bye,
Alex

Alexander started following the question "Caption truncated when mailing picture to Twitpic" in TwitPic.