Boris Mann's dashboard

Boris Mann shared an idea in SNI.PS on November 29, 2008 22:39:

Add tracking across Twitter

There is a tool called TwitSnip described here: http://erinmcmahon.wordpress.com/2008...

"Twitter Grader has come out with a new bookmarklet tool, TwitSnip. “TwitSnip is a simple tool for posting small snips to Twitter. It lets you “quote” text on any web page. It does nifty things like looking up the @user for the website and linking back to the source.”

It does just what it says it does. Like the Friendfeed or Google Reader bookmarklet, you can highlight a section of text on any web page, click on the bookmarklet and the tool will do the rest. It inserts the (tiny) URL, lets you know how many characters you have left (or are over), and even looks up the twitter account associated with that website (if there is one). Hit post and it gets posted on your twitter account."

I'd also like to see tracking of "re tweets" in some fashion. Essentially, integrating Twitter / Twitter users into an attribution chain in some fashion.

Boris Mann shared an idea in Bryght on November 26, 2008 22:09:

Allow me to import a WordPress or other blog

As part of signup or setup, it would be great to be able to import a WordPress or other blog software with an RSS feed into my Bryght Light account.

A comment on the question "I just wanted to confirm if your Contact Us form is working or not?" in Bootup Labs:

Like I said, I just fixed it. Contact me directly at boris AT bootuplabs.com, but it should be working now. – Boris Mann, on November 26, 2008 18:40

Boris Mann set one of Boris Mann's replies as an official response to "I just wanted to confirm if your Contact Us form is working or not?" in Bootup Labs

Boris Mann replied on November 26, 2008 18:34 to the question "I just wanted to confirm if your Contact Us form is working or not?" in Bootup Labs:

Woops! Looks like our contact page email wasn't forwarding correctly. Should be fixed now.

Boris Mann shared an idea in friendfeed on November 11, 2008 16:21:

Give me a feed to subscribe to comments people make on my posted items

I can get a feed of the comments that I make, but I can't seem to find a way to get a feed of all the comments that anyone else makes on items that *I* post.

Boris Mann shared an idea in oDesk on November 10, 2008 19:13:

Allow more than one provider company per user account

While the team functionality is great for running different projects, there are cases where you do need more than one provider company. The only way to currently have more than one provider company is to create a separate user account, create your second provider company, and then give full access to your first / "real" username.

This is obviously a work around, and it also encourages the production of "placeholder" user accounts (e.g. my second "account" was only used to setup the provider company - now that I've given my personal account full control, I'll never use it again.

So, please support multiple provider companies per user account.

Boris Mann gave praise in Rimu Hosting on October 29, 2008 00:14:

Thanks for educating me

They fix the problem, answer your question AND educate you so you can do it yourself next time. Usually in under 15 minutes.

Boris Mann replied on October 28, 2008 23:18 to the question "Want to search or browse for other Intense Debate users" in IntenseDebate:

I think importing connections should definitely be handled -- on signup, and later.

It's currently very hard to find "friends" or people you want to follow in Disqus. Entering in the email address of people one at a time is hard / tedious.

Friendfeed does a great job of pulling in connections from, e.g., Facebook. Using a similar methodology from Twitter and other websites would be excellent. The "follower" concept is probably better than friends: there are a lot of people that I wouldn't classify as "friend", but that I am interested in what comments they post.

Boris Mann started following the question "Want to search or browse for other Intense Debate users" in IntenseDebate.

Boris Mann shared an idea in Disqus on October 28, 2008 23:15:

Import friends/connections from other social networks

It's currently very hard to find "friends" or people you want to follow in Disqus. Entering in the email address of people one at a time is hard / tedious.

Friendfeed does a great job of pulling in connections from, e.g., Facebook. Using a similar methodology from Twitter and other websites would be excellent. The "follower" concept is probably better than friends: there are a lot of people that I wouldn't classify as "friend", but that I am interested in what comments they post.

Boris Mann shared an idea in Techvibes on October 03, 2008 22:09:

Add iCal feed for events

Please make an iCal feed for each of the cities you currently have event RSS feeds for! http://www.techvibes.com/event/global

Boris Mann shared an idea in Akoha on October 03, 2008 05:30:

Display an image upload progress indicator

I'm using Firefox on Mac. Image uploads rarely complete, and there is no way of telling if it failed silently in the background or if I have a bad Internet connection. A progress bar showing upload time would go a long way in showing me that it's actually working.

Boris Mann shared an idea in HomeZilla on September 30, 2008 17:28:

Make searches bookmarkable in the browser address bar

I can see that your example searches have direct links, and that the address I type in is linked on the page, but the browser address bar just says http://www.homezilla.ca/search.php, so I can't bookmark it directly in my browser.

Boris Mann replied on September 29, 2008 20:23 to the idea "can we get a public rss feed for each user?" in Akoha:

I hate email! I will turn email off for pretty much everything. I really do need RSS to stay engaged. Yes, we are the early adopter types: you definitely need email for other folks.

Boris Mann started following the idea "can we get a public rss feed for each user?" in Akoha.

Boris Mann replied on September 23, 2008 21:32 to the problem "Can't send email to attendees" in Eventbrite:

OK, we're still working on this, but we got a little further. Thanks to Patrick B for working through this with me.

Apparently, certain kinds of HTML cause issues with the mail server. So, cut and pasting from a web page that has funky HTML in it will some times mess things up. Very simple emails should work no problem.

Specifically Google map links with double encoded ampersands are one issue. Test your email in small batches to track down stray HTML ....

Boris Mann replied on September 23, 2008 02:09 to the problem "Can't reach your phone number from Canada" in Eventbrite:

You guys fixed this problem in record quick time. Nice work. Now about that full voicemail box ....

Boris Mann reported a problem in Eventbrite on September 22, 2008 21:31:

Can't send email to attendees

I've tried to send email to all 300 attendees, and it doesn't work (although it is listed as being sent). I've also tried to send to small numbers of people for further testing, but none of the email is going out.

Boris Mann reported a problem in Eventbrite on September 22, 2008 21:30:

Can't reach your phone number from Canada

It's great that you post your phone number and tell people to call. But I can't reach it from Canada! Please post your local number then at least I can choose to call long distance. Thanks!