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Dave Levy replied on November 06, 2008 23:40 to the question "Plazes comments gone?" in Plazes:

So what was the vision that means that plaze comments aren't required?

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Dave Levy replied on October 23, 2008 08:09 to the question "How to add a company and product to my accaunt?" in Get Satisfaction:

Eric's comment answers my question

Dave Levy marked one of Eric Suesz's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Eric Suesz replied to the question "How to add a company and product to my accaunt?".

Dave Levy marked one of Eric Suesz's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Eric Suesz replied to the question "How to add a company and product to my accaunt?".

A comment on the question "How to add a company and product to my accaunt?" in Get Satisfaction:

I want to add some companies to the companies & products tab in "My Account" pages – Dave Levy, on October 09, 2008 09:51

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Dave Levy asked a question in Plazes on October 09, 2008 06:46:

Has the facebook application been withdrawn?

I have just noticed that my plazes are not showing up in my facebook feed. The application is no longer installed and I can't find any application using the search strings plazes|plaze|plazer.

Have you done anything?

Dave Levy replied on September 19, 2008 14:10 to the question "Plaze creation by SMS doesn't work" in Plazes:

So that's changed then, it used to be "At" and notifying people of a return, it still works. I'll let you know next time I create a plaze.

Dave Levy replied on September 18, 2008 06:56 to the question "Plaze creation by SMS doesn't work" in Plazes:

Are you saying that I must use "@" and not "At" as the Plaze start delimiter?

But I use the +49 176 888 1113 number; there wasn't a UK number when I first programmed it into my phone. Would this make a difference? It seems to be only *new* Plazes that I have the problem with.

Dave Levy asked a question in Plazes on September 16, 2008 07:06:

Plaze creation by SMS doesn't work

I tried to create a new Plaze via SMS from a UK network over the weekend. This failed. I did not receive an acknowledgment. I sent the message,

"At Royal Southern Yacht Club in Port Hamble"

from a UK network. I have since created the plaze using the web interface. I often, (usually), find that plaze creation by sms fails; I have had this occur on a number of occasions.

Dave Levy replied on September 12, 2008 18:10 to the question "Mergin plazes" in Plazes:

merging means that comments, pictures and tags are available to all visitors, you don't have to go looking to see if there are duplicates.

There remains the problem of those who want to say that they are either

at Heathrow Airport
at Heathrow Airport T3
at Heathrow Airport, Virgin Lounge

or even travel through them. This will become more important as finding out what your friends are doing via phone in real time becomes possible.

Dave Levy asked a question in Plazes on September 12, 2008 10:40:

Is there a blog affinity badge?

I'd like to place a blog affinity badges in my blog sidebar. It needs to be smaller than the i'm here widget. I'd like it to point at my home page. All I need is the graphic really as I control the html anyway.

Is there an image avaialble somewhere?

Dave Levy replied on September 11, 2008 09:07 to the question "Mergin plazes" in Plazes:

You need to have a merge plaze function.

Here's another example, Edinburgh Airport has 4 entries. While what you say about people doing what they want is fair, this means that the collective wisdom about places is diminished. Maybe you should store proposals to merge until a threshold is reached (the threshold could be based on Karma if you still collect it.). Otherwise ask all visitors what they think, which cold be a bit poor if people have stoped using it.

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Dave Levy replied on August 27, 2008 16:25 to the idea "twitter message length" in Plazes:

So if you add a comment , or something for the what I am doing field, you will generate a longer sms message. I received this from a colleague and don't know how he set the message.

A comment on the idea "Can we have a user settable activity text for automatic check-ins?" in Plazes:

The ability to set a default of null would be required. – Dave Levy, on August 21, 2008 11:08

Dave Levy replied on August 21, 2008 11:05 to the idea "Plazer is a bit too eager to check in now..." in Plazes:

I have just suggested that this problem is solved at the other end and that filters are placed when re- reading the plazes via the web-site or feeds.

For more, see this topic, here at getsatisfaction.

Dave Levy shared an idea in Plazes on August 21, 2008 10:58:

We need filters in front of our feeds

As you encourage others to consume our rss/atom feeds of where we are, it becomes more and more important that you, or we place a filter in front of the feed. This would pass the message on, or discard it.

I suggest that such a filter forwards the first of day (TZ aware of course) and any change. I am considering implementing a personal filter using planetplanet or venus software but this should really by something that you implement on your servers.

These filters would eliminate duplication caused by plazers as they are put to sleep, have the lids closed, drop and recover their wifi etc. etc., or as people move from one computer to another for those of us with more than one

It seems as if your map widget and facebook applications have access to this sort of filter today.

Bonus points

You could offer several rules based filters and either ask people to turn the filters on, or change their default, which would/may lead to a lower volume of messages in the feeds, and hence lower resources within the plazes server complex and the various consumer systems.

The failure to offer this functionality/feature inhibits the adoption of some of your technology, either the feeds, or the plazer.

I've mooded myself as unsure, because I strongly believe that this would be a great improvement and its not very high up my personal project list.

Dave Levy shared an idea in Plazes on August 21, 2008 09:59:

twitter message length

The SMS messages generated by twitter can be over the 140 character length and thus deliver over two SMS messages. I have definitely seen this before twitter turned off SMS forwarding. (This may only occur if the originator defines an activity. I am not sure what happens if one is in a very long place name.)