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Jay Allen replied on June 29, 2009 22:01 to the update "What other apps would you like Get Satisfaction to integrate with?" in Get Satisfaction:

Movable Type and Melody

A comment on the update "What other apps would you like Get Satisfaction to integrate with?" in Get Satisfaction:

+10 for LightHouse (I represent a posse. :-) – Jay Allen, on June 29, 2009 22:00

Jay Allen replied on June 07, 2009 23:40 to the question "How about an "Open this link in LittleSnapper" bookmarklet or Firefox extension?" in Realmac Software:

I just noticed that a URL handler (i.e. protocol) exists in my Firefox settings for LittleSnapper. (As in ostensibly: littlesnapper://URL). Yet, I've not been able to figure out what it's for. My one attempt to use it launched LittleSnapper's browser but put the app in the background with Firefox in the foreground yet LittleSnapper would not give up the menu bar.

Will delve into this further.

Jay Allen reported a problem in Seesmic on April 09, 2009 03:39:

Up/Down arrows stop working when scrolling tweets

I'm using the Seesmic Desktop Preview and have noticed a consistent problem related to use of the up/down arrows when scrolling through a list of tweets. The problem is that after about 5 up or down arrows, they stop working and will not work again until I click on the listof Tweets again.

It almost seems like there is some periodic process that it stealing focus from the scrollable tweet list forcing me to refocus on it to regain control.

If I could add something else in here: I would love to be able to use the spacebar for pagin down.

Jay Allen shared an idea in Seesmic on April 09, 2009 03:34:

Seesmic Desktop needs a font-size setting for us old people

I'm using the Seesmic Desktop Preview which I think is a fantastic and ambitious product. However, the default font size of something like -9 and no font size setting in the configuration is making this four-pane setup look a bit like cuneiform.

There's no way at my screen resolution (which works great for everything else) that I can bear to look at these little tiny words for long.

Otherwise, outstanding job on the app. Looking forward to the next release!

Jay Allen marked one of Thor Muller's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Thor Muller replied to the question "The company name is clear but which product am I looking at?".

Jay Allen asked a question in Get Satisfaction on April 08, 2009 02:02:

The company name is clear but which product am I looking at?

I like a lot of what you all did on the redesign, so congrats on some very positive moves. However, one thing that unfortunately went the other way is the product context of the current conversation for companies who have more than one product.

For example, look at the following topic in the Plasq section for Plasq's Skitch.com website: "copy Direct URL" no longer working in Safari 3.2.. There's no Product context above the fold (see annotated screenshot, although for a completely different topic :-/ Sorry...). One has to scroll down a page to find it on the right sidebar.

Additionally, I seem to remember that the product could be found in the URL, but that seems to have changed as well so that they are all under a flat hierarchy:

* http://getsatisfaction.com/plasq/topi...
* http://getsatisfaction.com/plasq/topi...

I would love to see BOTH the company and product logos/names up top as these two things are crucial to deriving the context.

Keep up the good work and thanks for listening, as always!

Jay Allen started following the idea "I'd like to get links to MySkitch upload page without opening browser" in plasq.

Jay Allen replied on April 07, 2009 01:15 to the question "Genealogy Typepad Sites? Family Group Sheet Forms?" in Six Apart:

Hi Jim. I'm a long time Movable Type user/developer and former Six Apart product manager for Movable Type. I also happen to be big into genealogy. I too had difficulty finding any good genealogy blogs and no great examples of creating family trees using blog software. I'm sure that it could be done, but I've simply not done it myself nor seen it done.

Good luck finding some leads and please let us know if you do. I'd be very interested.

Jay Allen started following the idea "3rd Party (EyeTV, iTunes, iPhoto) Integration" in boxee.

Jay Allen started following the idea "Support my existing metadata (in iTunes) for video" in boxee.

Jay Allen started following the idea "Supporting remote/local iTunes libraries." in boxee.

Jay Allen started following the idea "Playlist creation and import" in boxee.

Jay Allen replied on January 25, 2009 23:46 to the question "MT support" in Thing Labs:

Corinna, let me know if you need help. Ask Freitas about my qualifications.

Jay Allen started following the question "MT support" in Thing Labs.

A comment on the question "What makes you different?" in Six Apart:

Very well put, Ginevra. History speaks for itself over and over again. – Jay Allen, on January 21, 2009 19:30

Jay Allen marked one of miz_ginevra's replies in Six Apart as useful. miz_ginevra replied to the question "What makes you different?".

Jay Allen started following the question "Explain image URLs in TypePad and why they differ" in Six Apart.

Jay Allen replied on January 14, 2009 04:20 to the question "Deleting podcasts from the iphone" in Apple:

It's the same motion, I believe: I swipe to the right on the episode you want to delete from the screen which lists all of the episodes for a particular podcast.

Note however, this only deletes it from your iPhone, not from iTunes.

Jay Allen replied on January 14, 2009 04:18 to the question "Podcasts directly to the iPhone?" in Apple:

I'll point out that if you're on wifi, that means you can easily download more shows of the podcasts you already subscribe to from the screen that lists the shows for that podcast.