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A comment on the question "Brightkite Invite please" in Brightkite:

sent – nbr, on October 07, 2008 05:04

Ken robinson replied on October 07, 2008 04:56 to the question "Brightkite Invite please" in Brightkite:

Ohhh perty pleazzze can I have an invite? KRobinson.atl at gmail.com

thanks

oriste replied on October 04, 2008 10:11 to the question "Brightkite Invite please" in Brightkite:

L., it's in your mailbox. Enjoy!

L. replied on October 04, 2008 10:05 to the question "Brightkite Invite please" in Brightkite:

Could I get one? ldcremades at gmail.com

Ryan Sarver replied on September 04, 2008 14:51 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

Hey guys, just posted a new update that supports PowerPC users. You have to grab it off the Mozilla Addons site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...

A comment on the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

This may happen if you're not logged into the Firefox Add-ons site; try creating an account and logging in, the downloading the extension. – Chris Lawrence, on September 01, 2008 06:16

colinfox replied on August 29, 2008 09:45 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

Still does not work with the latest version of Firefox for PowerPC. I emailed Ryan Sarver to tell him this along with a screenshot of the error message, but I was ignored...no response at all.

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Thanks for the update Lesley. Looking forward to the announcement! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 22, 2008 11:23

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Balaji, we are definitely considering users like yourself in regards to this feature. We will make sure that you are able to pull this data across all of the interfaces and not just using SMS or mobile email. :) – Lesley, on August 21, 2008 22:05

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Request for Brightkite developers - please consider other options for your international users as well.

For example, sending @FE via text or mobile email might seem like a good answer for your US users. But living in Asia, neither of those really works on a long term basis.

I understand that it's difficult for you to poll FE and am willing to put up with the hassle of having to update BK separately to pick up FE data. But please give us an option via the mobile site as well! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 21, 2008 02:53

AllenP replied on August 20, 2008 15:02 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

Tried to install on 2 different machines running ff 3.0.1. Got "Could not install" "invalid file hash" error.

Ryan Sarver replied on August 19, 2008 20:53 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

Also marking the issue resolved :)

Ryan Sarver replied on August 19, 2008 20:52 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

We have posted a new version that is compatible with Firefox 3, available now. You can download it from Mozilla's Addons site by going to:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...

They currently have it "sandboxed" so unfortunately you will have to create an account there to download it, but it is available.

You will notice a number of changes from the current Toolbar if you are using XP. We are moving to a much lighter model in terms of functionality built into the toolbar itself. In fact, you won't see a toolbar anymore, its not just a button in the navigation pane of the browser. Click it will take you to the Find Me page on Loki where you can do your local search.

- The toolbar has been removed in favor of a single button. We think vertical real estate is important to every user and we didnt need all that space :)
- The button has a drop down menu for options and MyLoki integration
- Enable myloki to take advantage of Facebook, Twitter, FireEagle and RSS integration - http://my.loki.com
- We will be building the Find Me page out soon to add a richer local search experience



As always, we are interested to hear your feedback -- both good and bad -- as we try to make a better product. Thanks for the patience

WmFirefox replied on August 19, 2008 20:32 to the problem "Firefox 3 does not allow the toolbar to be installed because "it does not offer secure updates"" in Loki:

A Firefox 3.x version of Loki is available at "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8549"
There are many changes from the former version.
1) Toolbar is gone.
2) Location does not appear at bottom of browser.

As per Loki:
Advanced Details
Version 2.2.1 — August 19, 2008 — 459 KB

- adds support for Firefox 3.x
- Integrated MyLoki feature
- Toolbar has been removed in favor of a single button on the browser navigation bar

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

I like the @FE idea. Until Fire eagle supports pushing. – jiltedcitizen, on August 18, 2008 14:18

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Jeevs, you totally nailed it...that is the challenge. – Martin May, on August 15, 2008 03:24

jeevs sinclair marked one of jeppedy's replies in Brightkite as useful. jeppedy replied to the idea "fireeagle integration".

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

As I understand it, the reason Pownce has no difficulty integrating with FireEagle despite their size is because it only ever needs to know where you are when you post something. So a user action prompts the pull from FE; this is more scalable because it does not have to be happening all the time, only once in a while when you post something.

This is equivalent, in terms of practicality, to the suggestion that BrightKite should prompt the you, when checking in, to just pull from FE (also like @FE mentioned earlier).
I think this is very sensible and, from the sounds of it, feasible.

Some people might want BK to check you in automatically whenever your FE is updated (from Plazes or any other service that pushes your location to FE). This is nice because it means you will only need to check in with one service and all your FE-capable services (e.g BK, Plazes or Pownce) will be updated instantly and automatically.
This is very difficult; because it demands that BK constantly lookup the location of all of its users through FE to make sure they haven't gone from their last check in point.

I think, until FE itself supports pushing relevant data to BK (i.e when a BK user's FE location is updated, FE should let BK know to pull the new geodata), the @FE user-prompted pull is a clever and effective compromise. – jeevs sinclair, on August 14, 2008 09:35

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Hi Andy, we are working on 2-way FireEagle integration. With Pownce it is slightly less complicated than what we have to deal with. – Lesley, on August 12, 2008 22:21

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

How is Pownce doing it then? – Andy Mesa, on August 12, 2008 21:25