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Levi Wallach shared an idea in Shareaholic on June 23, 2009 20:48:

Support for Google Apps Gmail

Please support the gmail that's in Google Apps accounts in a similar way as you have generic Gmail accounts supported. Thanks!

Levi Wallach replied on February 23, 2009 18:04 to the problem "Facebook Alerts blank in v3" in Alert Thingy:

Never mind, it just took 15 or 20 minutes for the alerts to show up! Might try putting some message to this effect to warn users...

Levi Wallach reported a problem in Alert Thingy on February 23, 2009 17:59:

Facebook Alerts blank in v3

Just installed v3, and reinstalled. Twitter and Flickr alerts come up fine but Facebook alerts don't show up at all. Just a gray area. I've authorized it and confirmed the authorization in Facebook, but still it shows nothing. Please help. Thanks.

Levi Wallach reported a problem in Pownce on August 13, 2008 21:57:

Location privacy not working with FireEagle

I have my location privacy set to friends only and I'm also using Fireeagle. When I do this and log out and then go view my profile, I still see my location in my profile. I even tried stopping the connection with fireeagle and reestablishing it with just city-level visiblity, but it still shows my exact location. Basically what I want to do is share my exact location with friends and no location with anyone else. Actually optimally I'd love to show my friends my exact location and everyone else my city, but I'll settle for the former - which is what I would have expected but this doesn't seem to work. I've had to turn the fireeagle connection off entirely until this is fixed...

Levi Wallach replied on July 16, 2008 15:13 to the idea "Windows Mobile support for Loopt" in Loopt:

Just upgraded from a Treo 700wx to an 800w and really would like this. Brightkite is available for those interested, but maybe not as featuref-full as Loopt? It simply uses a web interface that's geared towards mobile users. I would think Loopt would be able to do something similar until/if they decide to put out a dedicated WM app...

Levi Wallach started following the idea "Windows Mobile support for Loopt" in Loopt.

Levi Wallach replied on July 15, 2008 05:36 to the problem "Friends updates missing; cross-posting to Twitter broken for me (only it seems)" in Brightkite:

Lesley, thanks. I thought I'd try your suggestion but I can't see a way to edit my placemarks, and without that, I'm afraid that people will be able to see the exact addresses of sensative locations. Is the only way around this to remove the placemark (and then lose the history entry)?

A comment on the problem "Friends updates missing; cross-posting to Twitter broken for me (only it seems)" in Brightkite:

Thanks for the clarification, Leslie. So, this begs the question "why"? I mean about privacy settings overriding twitter. Here's the problem. I want to be able to share all my data with my friends, but only some data with the public. There needs to be more granularity in terms of the settings here. I don't want to just have city and state available to send to the public. I want to have something more specific than this, but not so specific as my actual address. I don't want to share my home address with the world, but don't mind giving my neighborhood or street (not street number). Allowing you to publish placemarks would also be very helpful, because then you can "shield" the exact location of a place by just using your own customized name for it, like "work." Or is this possible to do in some other way that I'm just not seeing? – Levi Wallach, on July 14, 2008 21:10

Levi Wallach replied on July 14, 2008 15:36 to the problem "Friends updates missing; cross-posting to Twitter broken for me (only it seems)" in Brightkite:

Thanks, Leslie!

I'm now able to test Twitter and I'm still not getting the expected results, so maybe you (or someone else out there?) can help me understand if what I want/expect is possible.

My Twitter sharing of checkins has the following specified:

"I just checked in to brightkite.com at $place - $street in $city, $state"

When I just checked in now, my Twitter feed entry says:

" I just checked in to brightkite.com at Reston, VA, USA - in Reston, VA"

I was EXPECTING it to say "I just checked in to brightkite.com at Work - Parkridge Blvd in Reston, VA"

I have my privacy set to private, but figured this shouldn't matter in Twitter sharing since you should be able to override that in your custom settings?

Thanks!

Levi

Levi Wallach started following the problem "Friends updates missing; cross-posting to Twitter broken for me (only it seems)" in Brightkite.

Levi Wallach started following the problem "Friends updates missing; cross-posting to Twitter broken for me (only it seems)" in Brightkite.

Levi Wallach started following the problem "Cross-posts to twitter no workie" in Brightkite.

A comment on the question "Facebook app would be amazing!" in Brightkite:

Thanks for the tip. I'm trying out ping.fm, but while it's definitely a step in the right direction, it needs to have much more customized settings for each service. IE, I would like to be able to check which services to update every time I send an update, and it should also provide the customized (optional) fields that are specific to the service. For example, it doesn't seem there is a way for me to do a brightkite checkin from this.

Similarly, it would be nice for there to be a similar service that was hooked to your various accounts and when you, for example, updated your facebook status, it would update your status on all the other sites. So you just update on the site that is most relevant, but then you know that it will communicate that to all the other sites... – dvdmon, on June 29, 2008 23:16

dvdmon replied on June 29, 2008 00:37 to the question "Facebook app would be amazing!" in Brightkite:

I've been thinking about this lately and wondering about how all of these social services could/should tie together. I have accounts with brightkite, facebook, twitter, and friendfeed. There's some communication back and forth, but it seems like there should be more integration. IE, you should be able to tie all your various social network accounts together and when you post to one with an update, it automatically should post to all of them (or even just to the ones you select via checkboxes on the form you are posting from). Having to post on multiple services each time is so repetitive and silly. I'm hoping with all the talk of facebook and myspace opening up their platforms (and maybe this has to do with this "opensocial" I've heard about?), we'll see more of this...

dvdmon replied on June 25, 2008 20:11 to the idea "Better interface for checking in locations?" in Brightkite:

Great, thanks!

dvdmon shared an idea in Brightkite on June 25, 2008 17:23:

Better interface for checking in locations?

There's gotta be a better way to check in on your location on your mobile phone. I'm just using brightkite since yesterday. Today I went out on a local bike path and took a picture that I wanted to post. I could not search for this because it wasn't an address. I searched for the name of the trail, but that didn't work.

My thought is that there should either be some integration between brightkite and an internal gps receiver if available, or at least some way to access latlong coordinates through a more dynamic mapping tool, either via mobile browser or via the mobile version of Google maps. Optimally, I'd like to just bring up a map, zoom into my exact location, hit my screen to put a pin down, then have options to check in, placemark, post photo, etc. The current interface seems awfully clunky unless you are only using it to locate yourself at specific street addresses.

dvdmon asked a question in PBwiki on February 11, 2008 12:04:

calendar feeds not showing up in Google Calendar?

I've tried adding the feed for our calendar to my Google calendar via the Google button as well as via the rss button. Neither show events in my Google Calendar. Any suggestions?

dvdmon replied on February 09, 2008 23:28 to the question "RSS Feeds not displaying in Google Reader" in PBwiki:

Ok, whatever, after an hour or two I got all the feed entries in Google Reader. Maybe the Wiki was too new for Google Reader to have the entries, or something? I'm still not sure how exactly the details work, but apparently feeds work even on private wikis...

dvdmon asked a question in PBwiki on February 09, 2008 20:56:

RSS Feeds not displaying in Google Reader

Hello, I have enabled RSS feeds for the wiki I collaborate on. When I look at the feed via my local browser, I see entries, but when I plug it into a web-based browser, Google Reader to be specific, it says that the feed does not have any entries. I'm sure this is due to the wiki being secured with a key, but I was hoping there might be a way of accessing the feed by using the key or some other key in the feed address. Any way this is going to happen?