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James Cridland reported a problem in Socialthing on September 03, 2008 13:33:

There's a favicon missing from https://socialthing.com

If there was a favicon, then I could "add SocialThing as an app" using Google Chrome that much better. Copy/pasting the existing file from the http server would be a splendidly wonderful thing, if someone could fix that...

James Cridland set one of James Cridland's replies as an official response to "How to keep the Jerry Springer iPlayer?" in BBC

James Cridland replied on August 30, 2008 21:10 to the question "How to keep the Jerry Springer iPlayer?" in BBC:

Unfortunately, programmes are only available to watch for seven days, and only within the UK, via the BBC iPlayer. This is due to a number of reasons including rights. As at the time of writing, there are five days left to watch it.

However, the programme site does contain some clips and more details of the programme which you may find useful. I think these clips should be available anywhere in the world (but I'm not sure). The direct web address is http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyou...

Additionally, previous series of the programmes have been released on commercial DVD, and it may well be the case that this new series will also be released in the same way.

Incidentally, getsatisfaction.com is not an official place to leave feedback (we're trying this out for a few products); so if you wish, please do use http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/ to get an official response.

A comment on the problem "iPhone web app is very error intolerant, and loses updates" in Ping.fm:

Yay! – James Cridland, on August 25, 2008 10:00

James Cridland set one of James Cridland's replies as an official response to "Search!" in BBC

James Cridland replied on August 24, 2008 13:56 to the question "Search!" in BBC:

You're asking, not unreasonably, for a "scoped search" for services like /programmes, /music and /iplayer. I spoke on Friday with a nice man called Matthew who's in charge of search, and now I shall be bringing this proposal up in official channels in the next week or so. Thanks for the idea: it seems blitheringly obvious.

James Cridland set one of James Cridland's replies as an official response to "Allowing listeners to phone into your blogs" in BBC

James Cridland replied on August 24, 2008 13:53 to the question "Allowing listeners to phone into your blogs" in BBC:

Well promoted, Mark (grin). We're aware of Spinvox (I used it for a while); but drop me a line personally and I'll give you the name of someone to hassle from the BBC Radio side. (Clue: It's not me.)

James Cridland replied on August 24, 2008 13:51 to the problem "BBC Radio now playing feeds on last.fm are broken" in BBC:

I've marked this as "we're working on it", since I note that Radio 2 is still not up and running. @tristanf - if there's a chance of any update, that would be a splendid trick.

James Cridland replied on August 24, 2008 13:49 to the idea "Allow users to suggest edits and corrections to the data" in BBC:

For those that don't speak BBC, the new "identity" feature is "the new user account system" (you know, the thing that lets you sign in). User input into /programmes is on the feature list, so I've marked this "we're working on it"; though possibly not 'corrections'.

Sophie is a BBC employee, incidentally, not that she's showing up as one in here quite yet.

James Cridland reported a problem in Ping.fm on August 24, 2008 13:45:

iPhone web app is very error intolerant, and loses updates

If you write a lengthy update on the iPhone web app, a little JavaScript popup appears saying "Got that! We'll post your update!" or something. And clears the text.

If however you write a lengthy update on the iPhone web app and your iPhone temporarily has no data connection, a little JavaScript popup appears saying "Oh dear! Something is broken!" or something. And clears the text. Forcing you to type the update in again when you do get coverage again. Except the 'submit' button is greyed out. So you then need to reload the webapp page. Grr.

This is more irritating than a very irritating thing with a big sign on it saying "This is irritating" which sticks pins in your arm repeatedly, while singing a song about pixies in a very high-pitched whine. With halitosis.

So, ideally...

if (successful) then {clear the text}
if (not successful) then {don't clear the text, and don't grey out the submit button}

Thanks.

James Cridland replied on August 23, 2008 17:04 to the problem "Single quotes in del.icio.us bookmarks show up wrong" in Socialthing:

In fact, any quote or apostrophe gets turned into the HTML entity, not just single (or double) quotes. I have this issue too, therefore.

James Cridland started following the problem "Single quotes in del.icio.us bookmarks show up wrong" in Socialthing.

James Cridland reported a problem in Socialthing on August 05, 2008 10:57:

The tab index in the login pannel is wrong

It's a tiddly problem... but the tab index on the login pane (at www.socialthing.com) is wrong.

Expected:
- login name
- password
- stay logged in
- submit

What actual happens:
- login name
- password
- submit
- stay logged in

James Cridland reported a problem in Socialthing on August 04, 2008 21:07:

URLs incorrectly linked in comments

Links are incorrectly linked if they miss the http:// bit.

As an example, this update says "colalife site has been hit 85 times already tonight. Cool! www.colalife.org"

In this example, www.colalife.org has been highlighted as a clickable link.

Expected behaviour: it would link to http://www.colalife.org/
What actually happens: it links to https://socialthing.com/www.colalife.org

https://socialthing.com/www.colalife.org is, of course, a (quite nicely written) 404.

Good. Hopefully that's clear enough? Yes? Excellent. Bye now.

James Cridland replied on August 01, 2008 20:58 to the question "identi.ca support ?" in Socialthing:

I'd very much like identi.ca support too; quite a few peeps on there.

James Cridland started following the question "identi.ca support ?" in Socialthing.

James Cridland replied on August 01, 2008 20:56 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in Socialthing:

Cracking! Delivered! Cool!

James Cridland started following the idea "Allow users to suggest edits and corrections to the data" in BBC.

James Cridland replied on July 30, 2008 17:50 to the idea "Add links to IMDB pages" in BBC:

Hi, Frankie,

I've forwarded this to the product owner for /programmes. Great idea, thank you!