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Jack Howson posted an update in i-mag on August 31, 2009 22:44:

i-mag now online!

i-mag is now back online! Well, we have been for a while, but we're gearing up for the Autumn/Winter period, our busiest. Which means that the lack of work over the summer will be more than compromised for! So go check us out now, and send us some feedback.

Jack Howson replied on August 31, 2009 22:38 to the question "Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes" in OtherInbox:

Thanks for that, Hoon .. I have to admit, it's been a while since I had last looked at the idea, so I think I'll have to revisit what I've said and try out your suggestion. Hopefully it'll work, and thanks for sending the links on - I've clicked Like to that idea!

Jack Howson started following the idea "Offer RSS feeds over HTTP (instead of HTTPS)" in OtherInbox.

Jack Howson replied on June 22, 2009 17:13 to the update "just to remind you, we're looking good." in i-mag:

Okay, latest update here. Changes: text on front image has been changed, a damask pattern added beneath with a swanky new .swf clock courtesy of Adam Dorman, the jumping people graphics we bought last year from iStock and not that you'll see it previously, but we changed the colour of the Creative Commons text to white. So there's some small changes there but also some pretty tasty ones too. It's coming on, no doubt.

Jack Howson asked a question in Ping.fm on June 15, 2009 22:53:

Windows Live Messenger won't add?

After adding 'pingdotfm@live.com' to my account, it doesn't show as online - so won't accept the verification code. I have added it before, about twice, but had to remove it for various reasons. Now it won't add I'm not sure what to do ... help appreciated!

A comment on the discussion "Welcome!" in i-mag:

Thanks! – Jack Howson, on June 15, 2009 20:19

A comment on the update "just to remind you, we're looking good." in i-mag:

All that happens is the following;

a) If you're a new member - you simply login with Facebook info, and it all gets carried over to us. From then on, you can sign in using your Facebook information.

b) If you're an existing member - you log in as normal with your i-mag username and password, and click the option to 'connect to Facebook'. From then on, you can sign in using your Facebook information.

That's how I believe it to be working at the mo, anyway. It's quite simple, just a bit annoying that we have to have a dedicated sign in page. – Jack Howson, on June 13, 2009 22:03

Jack Howson replied on June 13, 2009 12:48 to the discussion "Welcome!" in i-mag:

Amy, any chance you could remove the 'flag' from this topic?

http://getsatisfaction.com/i-mag/topi...

Jack Howson replied on June 13, 2009 12:45 to the update "just to remind you, we're looking good." in i-mag:

Ah, sorry for all the quick posts! Just one last mention - look at the top of the last two screenshots - see that? Yes, that's integration with Facebook. Cool or what?!

Jack Howson replied on June 13, 2009 12:43 to the update "just to remind you, we're looking good." in i-mag:

As mentioned about the dedicated login page - created this page to deal with the visitors that haven't registered and members that aren't logged in. As some things have changed - for the worse - members that want to log out will have to go back to this page to do so. Only way.

Nice background though, it's a street art scene courtesy of alice-anesthetic. As you can see, there's no normal menu bar - it's literally a two-way portal between any of the pages on i-mag and the login page and vice versa. It's to deal with everything membershippy.

Jack Howson replied on June 13, 2009 12:36 to the update "just to remind you, we're looking good." in i-mag:

OK, this shows the biiiiig changes we've made to the design. Not much really on this one - just some tidying up of the top right. Also - as we have a new login system on the way, we've got a dedicated login page too. Cue the 'login/join' button.

Jack Howson replied on June 06, 2009 10:57 to the question "Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes" in OtherInbox:

The link to the pipe is here. It should show what it does - basically, strip some text so we only get what we need; that's for the RSS body, and for the title, we rename the message header.

Jack Howson replied on June 01, 2009 21:49 to the question "Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes" in OtherInbox:

Hmmm ... that's the problem I encountered. Is there some site online to get the RSS converted? So it's being broadcast from another site? I know there's a site that allows password protected feeds to be broadcast without the password ...

It's a really complicated setup we've got going on ... at the moment, people text messages to a number, beginning their message with imag, our site's name, followed by their message. The free site that takes these messages and sends them on sticks a load of junk before and after the message. SO - we're looking for something that will take the messages and export them as an RSS feed. At the moment, we're using ToRSS, but it's very unreliable. So, our idea was to forward the messages to OIB, have them exported as an RSS, feed them into Pipes as planned, export them as a new RSS and get RSS alerts sent from that feed to an email address.

It was working with ToRSS - messages came out like shown below. The only problem is it's extreme unreliability, we want something that's very stable; and that's where OIB comes in.

Subject: new SMS from [insert number]
Message: [number] says '[content of text]'

Hope that might help you to understand a bit more about what we were trying to achieve; we're still very much just testing it out, and we fully expected these problems, but it'd be good to get them straightened out!

Jack Howson replied on May 29, 2009 23:55 to the question "Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes" in OtherInbox:

OK, I see. I clicked on the RSS link, and as the normal style didn't come up, I thought it wasn't working. Sorry for my misunderstanding.

Thought I'm using Yahoo Pipes - not sure whether you've heard of it - to take the feed and edit it and rebroadcast it as a new RSS. It won't seem to pick up that the OIB RSS is a normal one. I know the problem's not on your side, but could there be something in OIB that I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for all your help.

Jack Howson replied to "Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes", but it was removed. see the change log

Jack Howson asked a question in OtherInbox on May 21, 2009 19:28:

Get OIB feeds to work well with Yahoo! Pipes

If someone could give me the first steps to getting started, that'd be great. My account is registered [jackhowson.otherinbox.com]. I'd like to do the following:

• Receive emails from a certain email address - and have an RSS produced of these emails
• Take an RSS feed and have it inserted into OIB and forwarded to a Hotmail address

I don't know whether these are possible, but this seems the best service I've seen for what I'm looking for. I wasn't able to get an RSS feed before, it just showed up as HTML and Yahoo didn't want to accept it :S. Thanks in advance!

Jack Howson replied on May 09, 2009 11:24 to the update "i-mag's private network is functioning!" in i-mag:

OK, maybe we could do arranged chat times or something. It's something to think about, I guess.

Jack Howson replied on May 09, 2009 11:23 to the question "Not updating ... any chance of a fix?" in twitterfeed:

OK, now got the update - but my tweet is still being shown with

jdhowson:

before my update. Is this WITHIN Twitterfeed that I can change this?

Jack Howson replied on May 09, 2009 10:31 to the update "i-mag's private network is functioning!" in i-mag:

Okie dokie, I'll do that. So it's the same thing as before? And is the server hosted from your computer; so will only work when you're online?

Jack Howson asked a question in twitterfeed on May 09, 2009 10:30:

Not updating ... any chance of a fix?

At the moment, I'm using Twitterfeed to read my Twitter RSS updates and send them to Ping.fm, which then sends them onto all my networks. I love Twitterfeed, but I'm not sure whether the problems are on my end or your end.

I sent a message from Twitter (from the 'got' to 'address ...') parts, and it's come out like this. Are there settings I need to change in Twitterfeed so it comes out as 'got an invite to De Montfort university's design open day! But how did they get my address ...' ?

jdhowson: got an invite to De Montfort university's design open day! But how did they get my address ... http://twitter.com/jdhowson/statuses/...

Also, I posted an update on Twitter, and it hasn't come through on Twitterfeed. Is there any chance you could check my account? http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_... is feed - jackhowson.myvidoop.com is login. Cheers.