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dsims marked one of Thomas' replies in Brightkite as useful. Thomas replied to the idea "My 2009 wishlist for Brightkite".

dsims replied on April 10, 2009 17:28 to the praise ""My Get Satisfaction Activity" RSS feed Yahoo Pipe" in Get Satisfaction:

Ok, I modified it. The pipe now shows only new topics created by you.

Things you asked, shared, reported, and gave.

A comment on the idea "More personal feeds" in Get Satisfaction:

Ok, I just realized that the dashboard feed content is different depending on if you are logged in or not. Never mind! – dsims, on April 10, 2009 16:59

A comment on the praise ""My Get Satisfaction Activity" RSS feed Yahoo Pipe" in Get Satisfaction:

Hmm... that feed always contained other people's activity on my stuff too so I had assumed that there was no feed of JUST my activity. But now I see that it looks different depending on if I am logged in or not. Is that a bug? I would expect a RSS feed to always be the same, authenticated or not.

I guess my pipe isn't needed afterall! – dsims, on April 10, 2009 16:24

dsims replied on April 10, 2009 16:05 to the question "How does one display attachments in-line?" in Posterous:

Gmail now has the ability to insert images inline!
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04...

dsims gave praise in Get Satisfaction on April 10, 2009 14:37:

"My Get Satisfaction Activity" RSS feed Yahoo Pipe

I created a Yahoo Pipe that will produce a RSS feed of just your activity:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.inf...

Input your username, then use the resulting RSS or badge to share your GSFN activity on your blog or whereever, like I did on FriendFeed.

A comment on the idea "More personal feeds" in Get Satisfaction:

Exactly.... there is other people's activity in there and I just want my activity. I could probably filter it through a Yahoo Pipe, or hack something up with the API, but it seems like it would just take a minor tweak to GetSatisfaction that would benefit everyone. Thanks for listening! – dsims, on April 10, 2009 04:47

A comment on the idea "More personal feeds" in Get Satisfaction:

To get my activity into FriendFeed, all I need is a standard RSS feed. No custom integration needed. – dsims, on April 10, 2009 04:06

dsims replied on April 09, 2009 23:29 to the idea "More personal feeds" in Get Satisfaction:

I would like to share my activity in FriendFeed

A basic feed of just my activity would work. No crazy filters/generators needed.

dsims reported a problem in Dopplr on April 09, 2009 23:15:

Trip pages are not public.

My profile page is public, but apparently individual trips are not. On my profile, anyone can see details about my upcoming trips. So why require login + sharing to view a trip's page?

The Facebook app gets around this by using a special guest link that gives them access. I want the same ability via the atom feed.

My goal is to add the feed of my future trips to FriendFeed. This works great, except that the url for each item goes to the trip page, which noone can see, even if they have a dopplr account.

dsims marked one of a4agarwal's replies in Posterous as useful. a4agarwal replied to the problem "Posterous showing inaccurate numbers from Google Analytics".

dsims asked a question in Posterous on March 20, 2009 20:06:

How does one display attachments in-line?

In my post via email, I would like to position my attached images in-line with the text instead of them all appearing at the top of the post.

I have seen other people do this, like in
this post.

Can this be done in a single email submission (using gmail), or do I have to go in after the fact and edit the post HTML?

dsims reported a problem in pingvine on February 24, 2009 19:13:

URLs are being trimmed by Twitter

Pingvine auto-appends the feed entry's url to the end of the tweet. The problem is if the tweet is too long, then the url is broken due to being cut off halfway. Pingvine should intelligently shorten the message to leave the url intact (ideally using a url shortening service too). Or at least don't append the url at all if it is going to get cut off.

[example here]

dsims replied on January 25, 2009 16:01 to the problem "threading on @ replies does not match Twitter web behavior" in Seesmic:

Twitter changed how the default replies work, so now if you don't specify the in_reply_to_status_id, it is not linked to ANY tweet. I am always careful about replying to the correct tweet on the web and in TweetDeck, so I will not be using Twhirl until they make this simple fix.

dsims reported a problem in Brightkite on January 18, 2009 20:08:

iPhone may be so hot right now, but I'm a rebel

The site says I checked in "via iphone" even though I am not using an iPhone (I use a T-Mobile G1 android phone). I don't want everyone to think I am one of those people. I have a reputation to worry about ya know.

dsims started following the question "Any way to use the full site on my mobile phone?" in Brightkite.

dsims asked a question in Brightkite on January 16, 2009 22:41:

Do public posts bubble up while in "private" mode? (Mine do not)

My post's (notes & photos) privacy is set to "Exact", but my check-ins are set to "Hidden". I want my notes to bubble up to anyone in the area (street, city, state, ...), but it seems that they ONLY appear for that specific address's placestream. I expected my notes/photos to show up for ANY related places . I have seen other people's notes show up on a city placestream that also have specific addresses and no public check-in, so why don't mine?

I also noticed that my public location does not change when I post a public note (it only updates when I do a public check-in). Does that have anything to do with it? I expected my public note to update my location.

I always have private-mode ON. So that my regular check-ins are always private, but my posts are public. I post a note right after I check-in.

dsims replied on September 06, 2008 15:29 to the problem "Post by Email not working" in Ping.fm:

Adam, thanks for the copy-pasta, but I already checked all that.

I decided to do some more testing and I finally figured out what is wrong:

Problem #1) Posting to "default" doesn't work if you haven't actually saved the default setting page (http://ping.fm/settings/default/).
I noticed that my dashboard posts were only working when I specifically selected "Blogs". Once I had actually clicked "Update Settings" on the Default Settings page (even though Blog is my ONLY option and it was already selected in the dropdown), posting to Default started to work.

Problem #2) Emails to blogs must be of the form "title^body"
On the posting tips page it says:
"If you are posting a blog, be sure to include the ^ seperator in your message or it won't be delivered to your blogging services."
I had been incorrectly assuming that ping.fm would be smart enough to make my email subject the title, and the body the body. The message does not get posted unless your email subject or email body is of the form "title^body". Very unintuitive IMO.

Other email-to-blog issues:
You stripped all the formatting out of my email.
You converted urls to ping.fm urls.
The attachment disappeared. It did not appear on my "media page", and it was not sent to my custom URL.

I had hoped that ping.fm could be a tool that I could use to post richly formatted emails to my blog. It appears that your primary focus is posting small bits of text to status and micro-blog sites. Which is fine, but you should explain exactly how you modify our posts so we can have better expectations.

dsims reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on September 05, 2008 15:28:

Login page not encrypted. Password sent in clear text.

I know our Get Satisfaction account doesn't need bank-level security, but you could at least get a cheap SSL certificate so that our login credentials can't be sniffed. Many people use the same email/password for many website accounts, so it can be a bigger problem than you think.

I know that OpenID support kinda solves this problem, but the people not using OpenID are probably the people who don't know much about web security.

(Ironically, I've seen people report this same problem on other products, but not here)

dsims reported a problem in Ping.fm on September 05, 2008 15:01:

Post by Email not working

Posting by email is the most important feature of ping.fm, IMO. The problem is that it doesn't appear to be working at all. I sent a few emails last night, and they still don't appear on my "recent posts" page and they never made it to my "custom url". I tried again this morning, and still nothing.

I sent the emails from gmail to my posting e-mail address.