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John replied on July 18, 2008 22:21 to the discussion "Who's behind the Whale and other Twitter images?" in Twitter:

yeah, apparently people really love that imagery... http://www.savethefailwhales.org/

skirocky started following the idea "Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?" in Dopplr.

mathowie replied on July 01, 2008 15:24 to the problem "Bug: Logging in clears out your shopping cart" in Threadless:

Holy cow, that worked. Thanks so much!

mathowie marked one of Harper Reed's replies in Threadless as useful. Harper Reed replied to the problem "Bug: Logging in clears out your shopping cart".

Harper Reed replied on July 01, 2008 15:19 to the problem "Bug: Logging in clears out your shopping cart" in Threadless:

This has been fixed.

Thanks for your feedback, mr internet!

mathowie reported a problem in Threadless on July 01, 2008 15:04:

Bug: Logging in clears out your shopping cart

I get the weekly emails of new designs, I often find 1 or 2 I like, and end up adding to my cart. When I hit checkout, I remember I should log in, since you have all my address details and my threadless points, but when I do, my shopping cart gets cleared out every time. Usually I quit, sometimes I go back and shop again for stuff, but I really wish Threadless worked like Amazon where stuff in your cart isn't lost when you log in at payment time.

I captured a short movie of this bug (and described it on my blog as well):
http://images.metafilter.com/threadle...

The first one shows adding to cart, logging in, then going to cart shows it is empty.
The second bit at the end shows a shirt in the cart, then logging in, and seeing the cart get emptied. I've noticed this bug for the last year or two and I think it'd result in a lot more sales if it was fixed.

mathowie marked one of jessamyn's replies in MetaFilter as useful. jessamyn replied to the question "How do I delete post?". mathowie and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

mathowie replied on June 20, 2008 04:21 to the discussion "Who's behind the Whale and other Twitter images?" in Twitter:

This was answered on Ask MetaFilter earlier today. Turns out they are different artists that sold their stuff on iStockPhoto -- their names are listed in that thread I linked.

bobby322 replied on May 30, 2008 23:03 to the question "Will I be able to use my current cell number when I get an iPhone?" in Apple:

You can't take your number. So basically you have to decide how much your number is worth. the only way to hold on to a number is by paying the cancellation fee.
BTW, I found a website for Canadians to exchange their cell phone contracts: cellclients.com
I used them last year but I'm going to use them again when the damn iPhone gets here!

prettylady replied on March 26, 2008 04:03 to the question "How much does the iPhone cost?" in Apple:

Good-luck with the payment of your iphone's minutes, which is going to be like $200 or something.

prettylady replied on March 26, 2008 04:02 to the question "How much does the iPhone cost?" in Apple:

The price is $499
and oh boy it sure is expensive!!!

prettylady replied on March 26, 2008 03:57 to the question "How much does the iPhone cost?" in Apple:

So yeah the iphone is amazing in every way
however, it has no insurance and that sucks.

bopuc replied on March 03, 2008 22:23 to the idea "Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?" in Dopplr:

Hi Matt,
yeah definitely this is something we've discussed and been keeping in the backs of our minds trying to figure out the best way to go about it.

Right now we have private notes, and notes that act, as you rightly noted, as comments on a trip. Obviously, we have yet to find the perfect mix, but feedback like yours definitely helps us look in the right direction. :D

Celia replied on February 29, 2008 08:02 to the idea "Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?" in Dopplr:

Hi Matt

I like this idea - and I think the others at Dopplr might too! Thanks for the suggestion.

Celia

Ted Grubb's reply to "Help us improve the Manage Connections page" was just promoted to the most useful! mathowie and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I'd love to view my contacts by home city or current location.

mathowie marked one of Alexander Baxevanis' replies in Dopplr as useful. Alexander Baxevanis replied to the discussion "Help us improve the Manage Connections page". mathowie and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Lane Becker started following the idea "Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?" in Dopplr.

Lane Becker started following the idea "Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?" in Dopplr.

mathowie shared an idea in Dopplr on February 29, 2008 02:42:

Trip descriptions shown on a user's main page of trips?

I'd like to see Notes on Trips exposed more. When I look at a friend's planned trips for the next six months, they may have 3 or 4 cities listed, and almost always there is 1 Note for each, describing what the trip is for, made by the user taking the trip.

Figuring out why my friend is going to be in my town and three other towns takes an awful lot of clicking, then clicking back, then more clicking just to see a single sentence that is most often like "visiting family" or "attending the $foo Conference". I'm specifically asking about adding information to a dopplr.com/traveller/$username page. I like to quickly scan that page for friends (it's my main interface to the entire site, surfing friends' profile pages) and know why they're going to be in town in a single glance.

Certainly, it'd be easy to just surface those short descriptions (even just the first 200 characters would be enough) on a user's home page of Trips, no? Basically if the first Note is by the same author as the Trip, then show the first x characters on their main user page along with the Trip information.

If promoting the first Note up on a user's page is too much to ask, I notice that "Notes" are used like comments in similar systems and maybe what I'm asking for is instead a standalone "trip description" field that is separate from Notes that could be surfaced for easy scanning of where and when (this would add Why) my friends will be traveling.

dan replied on February 17, 2008 22:00 to the problem "How do I redeem my $100 Apple Store Credit for the iPhone?" in Apple:

thnx