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Phil Yanov reported a problem in Eventbrite on August 24, 2009 20:37:

Prices at Eventbrite just went up 50%

I love Eventbrite, I just can't figure out why processing fees just went up by 50%. This does not include the payment processing fees which are an additional 3%. My $20 lunch now costs $1.49 to issue the ticket. It's another 3% if I want to use their payment system.

Phil Yanov reported a problem in LinkedIn on April 13, 2009 14:45:

LinkedIn denies managers ability to export groups they have built.

According to the support pages on the website, and Steve Ganz's comments in this forum, LinkedIn has decided to eliminate the ability to export group information via the service. Now your data and connections go in... but they don't come out.

Phil Yanov replied on April 13, 2009 14:38 to the problem "Is the Export Link on LinkedIn Groups is Gone." in LinkedIn:

The feature has been removed. Argh!

In order to respect group members' email privacy more completely, exporting a list of group members and their emails addresses is no longer enabled.

http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...

Phil Yanov replied on April 13, 2009 14:36 to the question "Where is the Members "export" button on Group management!?" in LinkedIn:

According to the support page:

In order to respect group members' email privacy more completely, exporting a list of group members and their emails addresses is no longer enabled.

http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...

A comment on the problem "New LinkedIn Group Issues" in LinkedIn:

Also, the new feature is buggy as someone else noted. You get a list of five to approve, approve them and two of them are still in the queue waiting to be approved. Doh! – Phil Yanov, on August 18, 2008 00:11

Phil Yanov replied on August 18, 2008 00:09 to the problem "New LinkedIn Group Issues" in LinkedIn:

I think there are some good points raised in this discussion. There were some improvements in the presentation of the information that is shown, but the now missing features trump all. Of the six primary functions listed in the original post listed, I either used or would use all of them:

1) There is no longer a way to click over to a group's external website from the list of your groups.

2) There is no longer a way for group managers to sort the list of group members by name or by date joined.

3) There is no longer the management option to view/approve 50, 100, or 500 members at a time - now there is just a default view of 20 per page and no matter how many members the group actually has, a group manager/owner can now only see a management list with a maximum of 100 members?!?!??!?!?!

4) There is no longer a way to search your member list by email address?!

5) There is no longer a way to see the members the manager had previously removed from the group (and thus to have the ability to add them back as appropriate).

6) There is no longer a way to see which group members withdrew from the group.

This is the dark side of software as a service. The vendor gets to decide what he wants the program to do and when he want it to do it without care or communication with those who use it most.

Phil Yanov started following the problem "New LinkedIn Group Issues" in LinkedIn.

Phil Yanov started a conversation in I want Sandy on July 24, 2008 17:51:

Sandy didn't understand my request to review something in the future. How can I be so misunderstood? :)

This may be a problem. I told Sandy, "Remind me to review Roomba Repair Situation on Saturday." She replied:

Hrm. I couldn't find this anywhere. Might you already have deleted it?

I put this on the calendar:

#1 Sat, 7/26 Review Roomba Repair Situation
- email reminder at 8:00am
etc...

I have the full message, but it is not yet clear to me why she thought I was updating or deleting something.

Phil Yanov started following the question "Downtime Fri 4 April 2008, 6:30am PST (Los Angeles, USA) - Ongoing" in I want Sandy.

Phil Yanov replied on April 04, 2008 14:31 to the question "Downtime Fri 4 April 2008, 6:30am PST (Los Angeles, USA) - Ongoing" in I want Sandy:

I thought Sandy might be sleeping in. Perhaps she was out a bit late last night. I hope she is back on her feet, soon.

Phil Yanov started following the discussion "Status" in I want Sandy.

Phil Yanov replied on November 07, 2007 20:55 to the problem "daylight savings time problem?" in I want Sandy:

At 3:45 PM today, I received a reminder that said it was to be delivered at 4:45 PM. It's a weekly reminder. I thought I'd pass this along in case you think you might still have some tweaking to do. I can wait until next week to see if the problem is recurring.

Phil Yanov replied on November 07, 2007 19:56 to the discussion "Jott to Sandy from your phone" in I want Sandy:

Cool. Done. Tested. It works. I love it. Thanks.

FYI -- Step 8 should read "Add" button instead of "Save"

Phil Yanov replied on November 06, 2007 18:04 to the idea "Link to Jott.com And Use Sandy Via Phone!!!" in I want Sandy:

Rael, Thanks for the response here. I am glad you are noodling over an interface with Jott. As you say, an interface with Jott seems natural. When you are ready for testing, feel free to drop me a line. ;)

Phil Yanov started a conversation in I want Sandy on November 06, 2007 17:38:

I love the new look of "I Want Sandy"

I love the new look. The lists are very useful. I also appreciate the ability to enter an item while sitting at the web page. (It's much quicker for me than sending an email.)

Phil Yanov replied on November 06, 2007 17:36 to the question "Is it possible to get more than two emails for I want Sandy?" in I want Sandy:

Really, I could get by with three email accounts for Sandy, but two is cramping my style.

Phil Yanov started following the problem "daylight savings time problem?" in I want Sandy.

Phil Yanov started following the idea "Link to Jott.com And Use Sandy Via Phone!!!" in I want Sandy.

Phil Yanov started following the question "Is it possible to get more than two emails for I want Sandy?" in I want Sandy.