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bauserdotcom marked one of Adam's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Adam replied to the problem "Ping not posting to Brightkite".

A comment on the problem "Ping not posting to Brightkite" in Ping.fm:

The thread on Brightkite's board (they don't use Get Satisfaction anymore) is:

https://brightkite.tenderapp.com/disc...

If more people there let them know this is a problem, maybe they're try harder to actually fix it! – bauserdotcom, on November 06, 2009 17:11

bauserdotcom replied on November 04, 2009 18:54 to the problem "Ping not posting to Brightkite" in Ping.fm:

I should have known it was Brightkite's problem. They broke everything in their alleged upgrade.

Thank you for looking into this. I guess I'll go post something on Brightkite's customer service boards now.

bauserdotcom marked one of Lesley's replies in Brightkite as useful. Lesley replied to the problem "Not receiving SMS from Brightkite, but Brightkite's receiving SMS from me".

bauserdotcom reported a problem in Ping.fm on November 01, 2009 05:43:

Ping not posting to Brightkite

None of my updates are being posted to Brightkite. Compare my Twitter & Brightkite feeds:

http://twitter.com/bauserdotcom and http://brightkite.com/people/bauserdo...

Everything posted to Twitter via Ping should be crossposted to Brightkite, but hasn't been for the past several days. (I send location updates directly to Brightkite, so those aren't affected.)

Given Brightkite's general dumbassery since their upgrade, I have no way to tell if the problem is with Ping or Brightkite.

All of my "lost" updates were sent to Ping via SMS.

bauserdotcom shared an idea in Ping.fm on October 20, 2009 02:44:

Add support for Foursquare

You should add Foursquare.com to the supported services. Their check-in syntax is similiar to Brightkite's.

A comment on the problem "t-mobile not supported?" in foursquare:

Going to do anything about T-Mobile To Go blocking Foursquare? Telling users to call T-Mobile is useless. T-Mobile lied to customers left and right when they were blocking Twitter:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... – bauserdotcom, on October 20, 2009 02:29

A comment on the problem "Goodbye. I am ditching this service 4ever." in foursquare:

Considering this is a discussion of the prepaid T-Mobile plans, yours is an incredibly useless response. – bauserdotcom, on October 20, 2009 02:23

bauserdotcom marked one of crystal's replies in Twitter as useful. crystal replied to the problem "T-Mobile is blocking Twitter".

A comment on the problem "Goodbye. I am ditching this service 4ever." in foursquare:

T-Mobile To Go (T-Mobile's prepaid service) is notoriously touchy about SMS shortcodes. Apparently, they default to blocking shortcodes until somebody convinces them the shortcode isn't spammy. (Twitter was blocked until last year; Facebook was blocked until THIS year.)

Somebody at Foursquare probably needs to contact T-Mobile about lifting the block. – bauserdotcom, on October 18, 2009 06:35

bauserdotcom started following the problem "Need better documentation for SMS check-in." in foursquare.

A comment on the idea "Custom alias for locations" in Brightkite:

That wouldn't very well for me. Most of my placemarks are two- or three-letter abbreviations that would make damn little sense to other people. I use placemarks so that I DON'T have to type in long names. – bauserdotcom, on July 26, 2009 14:58

A comment on the question "is there a way to add past trips?" in Dopplr:

Do you have any e-mail confirmations for those trips? I added 3 years of trips to Dopplr by forwarding all the old confirmation messages I had saved in my mailbox. – bauserdotcom, on June 14, 2009 23:16

bauserdotcom reported a problem in Brightkite on June 14, 2009 04:33:

Not receiving SMS from Brightkite, but Brightkite's receiving SMS from me

I haven't been able to receive SMS from Brightkite all day (June 13). I don't get responses to check-ins or commands like "help". (All my updates today got assigned to the wrong location because I couldn't tell if check-ins succeeded!)

On the other hand, Brightkite appears to be receiving my SMS messages fine.

My phone service provider is T-Mobile To Go (prepaid plan). I know they've got a history of blocking shortcodes that annoy them, but I've never known them to let me send to a code that couldn't send to me.

My last SMS check-in before today was 06/09/09, so technically, the problem could have started before today and I just didn't notice.

An SMS gateway issue, maybe?

bauserdotcom replied on May 24, 2009 20:36 to the question "update typing error" in Twitter:

Nope.

bauserdotcom replied on May 24, 2009 20:33 to the question "Is there anyway of seeing if a twitterer is online?" in Twitter:

No. Twitter doesn't do that.

bauserdotcom replied on May 20, 2009 00:43 to the idea "Suggestion: Selective Cross-posting" in Brightkite:

thechexan, have you tried ping.fm? It will do almost exactly what you want.

(I'm using Ping to juggle my Brightkite and Twitter accounts -- if I want an update to appear on both services, I send it through Ping, but if I want the update to only appear on one service, I send it directly to that service.)

bauserdotcom started following the idea "Include state & country in the location updated on Twitter." in Brightkite.

bauserdotcom started following the idea "Adding a block button under pending friends" in Brightkite.

bauserdotcom started following the idea "Don't allow nudging of active accounts." in Brightkite.