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BijanK reported a problem in Dopplr on November 06, 2009 13:40:

Dopplr randomly misinterpreting locations

Dopplr currently frequently misinterprets the most common locations for me. For instance, I have plenty of appointments in "Berlin, Germany" but Dopplr randomly parses this location as "Neues Vorwerk". Could someone explain to me why this is happening? I do not seem to be able to identify Berlin any more specifically than in this way.

BijanK replied on October 28, 2009 12:38 to the problem "Dopplr frequently reporting changed events in 1970" in Dopplr:

Is it possible to receive a reply for this from Dopplr staff? I am still experiencing this weird error. Thanks!

BijanK reported a problem in Delicious Monster on October 28, 2009 12:34:

"Mail to Friend..." does not work in DL2.3

I have found that the function "Mail to Friend..." does not work for me in Delicious Library 2.3. Pressing the button will call up mail.app, but nothing happens.

Has anyone seen this?

BijanK reported a problem in Dopplr on August 31, 2009 07:54:

Dopplr frequently reporting changed events in 1970

Dopplr for me frequently reports mysterious changed events in 1970. I have not been able to pinpoint the reason for this. I do not have any events in 1970 and I'm uploading my calendar via iCal to your servers.

The error looks like this:

We updated a trip to Tbilisi in January 1970 because it changed in an external calendar (Event dates were changed).

We updated a trip to Tbilisi in January 1970 because it changed in an external calendar (Event dates were changed).

We updated a trip to Tbilisi in January 1970 because it changed in an external calendar (Event dates were changed).

We updated a trip to Tbilisi in January 1970 because it changed in an external calendar (Event dates were changed).

Would you have any idea what's happening here?

BijanK replied on June 04, 2009 07:29 to the problem "Dopplr consistently misinterpreting events uploaded through iCal (Mac)" in Dopplr:

Peike,
it seems the problem has been resolved for a few weeks already. Apparently it only happened for a short time. I can't say why but for the moment everything looks fine. I'll let you know if something changes.

BijanK reported a problem in Dopplr on May 10, 2009 08:55:

Dopplr consistently misinterpreting events uploaded through iCal (Mac)

For a while now, dopplr has begun to consistently take the event name for the location. In the past, the location field was parsed as the place where an event would take place. Now, Dopplr has begun to parse the title field as the location.

I have been made aware of this by colleagues who get trip notifications to places I am not planning to go. I have not made any changes to the way my iCal files are automatically updated at Dopplr.

I have removed all iCal calendars and readded them but without effect. Dooplr still shows trips to the wrong places because it is parsing the title field. I am talking about events that do all have the location field filled in correctly.

Secondly, events are now appearing in my Dopplr directory that are clearly parsed the wrong way concerning dates. For instance, I have several trips on "11th November 1123" or others in the 1970's.

Any suggestions?

BijanK replied on May 05, 2009 09:08 to the question "Application for Brightkite anywhere?" in Brightkite:

Well, there is a Script for posting Tweets using QuickSilver on a Mac. Do you have any idea if such a thing would be possible using bk too?

(available here: http://blog.codahale.com/2007/01/15/t...)

BijanK started following the idea "Growl Support" in atebits.

BijanK asked a question in Brightkite on March 10, 2009 09:48:

Application for Brightkite anywhere?

I was wondering why we haven't seen a software product like Twitteriffic supporting Brightkite yet. Is this a technical limitation? Did I miss something?

This is the single most important show stopper for me at the moment.

BijanK replied on October 21, 2008 21:17 to the question "New trips' cities no recognised although they do exist" in Dopplr:

Problem has been solved. As I cannot delete the question as it seems, I'm replying this way.

BijanK asked a question in Dopplr on October 16, 2008 19:19:

New trips' cities no recognised although they do exist

I am currently having the problem that any new trips I seem to add to at least one calendar that is uploaded to dopplr from iCal is not recognised as Dopplr can't seem to find the appropriate city.

However, this affects cities I have travelled to before in Germany and other countries I know for sure exist. It also seems to affect any new trip I create irrespective in fact of the actual city.

Is there any chance you may be able to look into this specific case in detail?

BijanK started following the problem "Location reported to Fire Eagle doesn't match actual location" in Brightkite.

A comment on the idea "Dopplr iCal plugin a possibility?" in Dopplr:

That's cool. Actually, I was completely unaware of this. Maybe you should adjust the description on the site somewhat to make that clearer? (or maybe I just overlooked it...) – BijanK, on July 28, 2008 12:12

BijanK marked one of Tom Insam's replies in Dopplr as useful. Tom Insam replied to the idea "Dopplr iCal plugin a possibility?".

BijanK shared an idea in Dopplr on July 28, 2008 11:31:

Dopplr iCal plugin a possibility?

I would really like to know if we may expect some sort of an iCal plugin one day. I am having the problem that I would like to have trips from several calendars uploaded to dopplr (private and business). At the same time, the private calendar should not reside on a public server. However, the secret Dopplr URL seems only to be able to take one calendar, so I also cannot upload the private calendar to my private, secure server and have it read into Dopplr.

I have not been able to find a solution for this problem yet and was wondering if an iCal plugin (does iCal have a plugin API?) would do the trick if I was able to tick "Share this appointment on Dopplr" for each individual trip.

Using a separate dopplr calendar doesn't really do it for me as this leads to lots of redundant "trip management".

A comment on the discussion "What sort of functionality do you want from a mobile version of Dopplr?" in Dopplr:

Good to know that you do this already. I tried a while ago and thought you didn't back then. I'll check again. – BijanK, on July 28, 2008 11:22

BijanK replied on July 28, 2008 09:43 to the discussion "What sort of functionality do you want from a mobile version of Dopplr?" in Dopplr:

I have a more general dopplr request.

I suggest finding a way to automatically strip uploaded calendars from "ineligible" travel destinations. Dopplr should automatically check the destination fields for the name of the place the person actually lives/works in and strip these out (=not generate trips).

That would be a tremendous help when working with just one business calendar that is uploaded to dopplr but contains plenty of appointments that are not supposed to show up in dopplr.

BijanK replied on July 01, 2008 05:55 to the question "Privacy settings to apply to fire eagle?" in Brightkite:

Lesley, thanks. That solved it! I found the setting in fire eagle.

BijanK asked a question in Brightkite on June 30, 2008 21:48:

Privacy settings to apply to fire eagle?

Currently, fire eagle gets my exact location from brightkite. Consequently, my blog that is pulling my location from fire eagle displays my exact location.

Is it possible to define a less accurate position that gets sent from bk to fe? For instance, I would like fe only to receive the city from bk, not the exact position so that my blog will only get the city, too.

BijanK replied on May 20, 2008 16:15 to the question "Apparent bug when connecting to ICS-files" in Dopplr:

Thanks Tom, you guessed right. That indeed solved the problem. Actually, I didn't realize that it works this way.