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Ben Ward shared an idea in Stuff and Nonsense Ltd. on February 18, 2009 10:38:

Some rights reserved?

Public Domain is rather all-or-nothing, will you add support for the other, more granular Creative Commons licences?

Ben Ward replied on January 12, 2009 10:28 to the question "How do I get my GPS coordinates onto my twitter location?" in Twitter:

The Twitterrific application has a feature to update your Twitter location using the iPhone hardware. Earlier versions of Twitterrific inserted the precise co-ordinates into the location field, but later builds swapped that for a geonames lookup of the location name — it's decipherable to humans, whereas the raw co-ordinates are not. As such, you can't get the old version that did co-ordinates any more.

I'm sure other clients offer similar features, but I'd urge you to think carefully before using them. Twitter's location field is not privacy protected. It's completely public. Even if you have your tweets set as ‘protected’, the location field remains visible to everyone who visits your page. Posting your exact location is a pretty big disclosure, and you should think very carefully about whether you want that information public for anyone to know.

Unfortunately Twitter doesn't have real location support in the service (although there are multiple threads here on GSFN requesting it: http://gsfn.us/t/nxv).

Ben Ward replied on December 17, 2008 02:18 to the update "Pownce Read-only Archive" in Pownce:

That's great! Thank you, Pownce!

Ben Ward posted an update in Fire Eagle on December 10, 2008 06:43:

Welcome to Friends on Fire!

Hello there!

Thanks very much for trying out Friends on Fire! We're using the super-lovely Get Satisfaction to handle all your feedback and help out with issues you might run into. Please help each other out where you can, and the developers will be checking in regularly and fixing your bugs and checking out your suggestions.

Thanks so much for your feedback,

Ben
Team Fire Eagle

Ben Ward replied on December 08, 2008 10:02 to the question "Find friends on the map in the area faster?" in Brickhouse Betas:

The thing is, the plaque appears only when you're zoomed in so close that there is *no* pin for that person — because their location is too general to be displaced precisely on the map.

What we're trying to represent is ‘As well as all these people who are pins on the map, this person is in the general area too, but we don't know where’.

As Sam says, to show you his pin, we'd have to zoom right out to a map of the world, pretty much. I think that would be even more confusion.

What if the plaque actually included the word ‘Also’, as in ‘Also, Seth Fitzsimmons, Tom Coates and Mor Naaman are in this general area’.

Ben Ward replied on December 07, 2008 09:36 to the problem "Aesthetics bug: "Signals & Friends Where-abouts" list needs spacing when signals are at the top" in Brickhouse Betas:

Fixed!

Ben Ward set one of Ben Ward's replies as an official response to "Clicking on open signal message should close it?" in Brickhouse Betas

Ben Ward replied on December 07, 2008 09:34 to the idea "Clicking on open signal message should close it?" in Brickhouse Betas:

OK, you can now collapse map markers by clicking anywhere (unless it's go another function — like clicking a hyperlink or button). Let me know how it runs for you. I'm not sure whether it's going to be confusing or interfere with other expected functionality.

Ben Ward shared an idea in Pownce on December 03, 2008 06:19:

Exporting data is lovely, but can we redirect our permalinks?

So, once I have my exported data I'll be able to import it into Tumblr. That's well and good, but all my previous content linking to Pownce URLs will be broken.

Even with the app taken away, setting pownce.com/benward/* to redirect to a path under the user's own domain would let me set up redirects to wherever my content ends up. I'm not suggesting you support the URL schemes of other services, that would be nuts, just the ability for users to throw all their links at one end-point and resolve them in their own way.

Obviously this goes a little further than just exporting content, but surely Six Apart, what with blogging being their game, would appreciate that reliable, stable URLs (some kind of hypothetical ‘permanent’ link, if you like) are a cornerstone of web publishing.

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 06:06 to the problem "Manage Sharing does nothing for me." in Brickhouse Betas:

Ahh, so you're sharing with no-one but have no app-user friends either. Interesting.

This will be fixed when we list Facebook friends again and open invitations. I'll note to add some empty holder content there, though.

Ben Ward marked one of Nik Fletcher's replies in Twitter as useful. Nik Fletcher replied to the idea "Location Enhancements for Twitter".

Ben Ward started following the idea "FireEagle metadata on each tweet." in Twitter.

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 03:51 to the problem "Signal didn't appear at the place I was at." in Brickhouse Betas:

This has been fixed now. If I find the person responsible for capitalising the words ‘Lat’ and ‘Lon’ in the YGeoPoint object... well...

Ben Ward set one of Ben Ward's replies as an official response to "Signal didn't appear at the place I was at." in Brickhouse Betas

Ben Ward set one of Ben Ward's replies as an official response to "Odd behavior in manage sharing on loading the app" in Brickhouse Betas

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 03:20 to the question "Odd behavior in manage sharing on loading the app" in Brickhouse Betas:

The quirky expansion behaviour is fixed now.

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 03:19 to the problem "Formatting in Invitations interface is confusing" in Brickhouse Betas:

So, update to Manage Sharing went in this evening to fix the weird behaviour with the dialog expanding, and not closing when you expect it to.

I've also tweaked something about the Incoming Requests behaviour, it's fairly subtle, so see how it feels tomorrow, whether it's more obvious at all.

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 03:16 to the problem "signals on FOF" in Brickhouse Betas:

We can do this, it just needs a bit of work to make sure the pan is nice and smooth and predictable.

Ben Ward set one of Ben Ward's replies as an official response to "manage sharing - the save button does not seem to work" in Brickhouse Betas

Ben Ward replied on December 03, 2008 03:14 to the problem "manage sharing - the save button does not seem to work" in Brickhouse Betas:

This is fixed now, along with a number of other tweaks the the behaviour of the Manage Locations dialog. You should find it more predictable now, and hopefully the operation more obvious.