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Jean-Marc Liotier reported a problem in Brightkite on November 09, 2008 18:55:
Brightkite does not use EXIF orientation data for displaying JPEGTake this Brightkite picture post for example : http://brightkite.com/objects/7799546...
The Nokia E71 that produced this picture has an orientation sensor and inserts orientation data into the picture's EXIF metadata. Almost all current cameras do that too. But Brightkite displayed the picture without taking it into account.
I guess it should - especially since `jhead -autorot $jpeg_image` or something like it does not impact the rest very much.-
Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "Get location information from iPhone 2.0 photo EXIF" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "Check-in via EXIF Lat/Lng from Cell Phone Image" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier replied on November 09, 2008 18:48 to the problem "Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new items" in friendfeed:
One week later - still holding... So maybe the additional permission was the definitive fix... -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on November 01, 2008 12:18 to the problem "Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new items" in friendfeed:
Works again after remove-re-add + extra permission. I'll come back in a few days to confirm if it holds or not. -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on November 01, 2008 10:15 to the problem "Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new items" in friendfeed:
I followed the link for the additional permission ("Access my data even when I'm not using the application"). Then I added a couple of items to my Friendfeed and left it overnight. But no item has yet appeared on Facebook. Now I'll try the remove - re-add drill again and see if it keeps working with the additional permission. I'll keep you informed of the result. -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on October 31, 2008 16:52 to the problem "Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new items" in friendfeed:
Down again : after a couple of days or normal operation, the Friendfeed Facebook application ceased again to update the Newsfeed. The problem is apparently still there. Will anyone enlighten us about the root of this problem and the actions in progress to check it ? -
Jean-Marc Liotier shared an idea in Ping.fm on October 28, 2008 17:56:
Fail on inexistent custom triggerWhen posting a message starting with a non existent custom trigger, the message gets broadcast to the default destinations. In my opinion this is rather bad because the resulting behavior is not what the user expects, especially when the default action differs substantially from the chosen custom trigger.
A safer behavior would be that when a message starts with the hash ("#") character that signals a custom trigger, if the trigger is non-existent the posting fails with a friendly explicative error message.
As a result of this modification to the custom trigger behavior, someone who actually wants to begin a message with a # that is not the beginning of a custom trigger will have to "escape" the sign with a space for example. But I believe that this is a pretty good trade-off compared to inadvertent broadcasts that could harm the user and force him to tediously clean the target sites. -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on October 27, 2008 18:09 to the idea "FriendFeed and Facebook integration" in Brightkite:
I'm impressed at the speedy answer... That is what I call responsive support !
You are right - so I submitted the problem to the Friendfeed folks at http://gsfn.us/t/mgu - and I corrected errors in the above entry (errors which what kids running around does to concentration...) - so let's take the conversation there, especially since the solution is probably rather on the Friendfeed side. -
Jean-Marc Liotier reported a problem in friendfeed on October 27, 2008 18:07:
Brightkite > Friendfeed > Facebook... "checked in" does not appear in the Facebook NewsfeedI import my Friendfeed to the Facebook Newsfeed. I use Friendfeed as the hub of my lifestreams, which I aggregate there and then redistribute to social sites such as Facebook. Amon my sources is the Brightkite service.
In Friendfeed, the Brightkite entries show up like :
You checked in on brightkite.com
Rue Linné, 75005 Paris
Very good.
The problem is that the same entry imported in Facebook will show up in the Newsfeed as :
Jean-Marc posted Rue Linné, 75005 Paris - Comment or View your FriendFeed ».
Baaad. A prefix such as "checked in" should be included instead of just the place name. With nothing like it, readers have no way to see that this is a check-in and not a blog post.
The body of entries in the Brightkite RSS stream mentions lines such as :
liotier checked in @ Rue Linné, 75005 Paris
So it is correct. It is actually the Friendfeed Facebook app that picks only the subject of the entry, instead of the body :
You: Rue Linné, 75005 Paris (via brightkite.com)
Which corresponds to what Facebook shows into the Newsfeed.
In summary, the problem is the compound of :
- The subject of a Friendfeed Brighkite entry not containing "checked in" as a prefix
- Friendfeed Facebook app picking only the subject of the entry.
So either :
- Alter the format of the Friendfeed Brighkite entries in the Friendfeed RSS stream to include "checked in" as a prefix
- or make the Friendfeed Facebook app pick the body of Brightkite entries instead of the subject.
For now, a Brightkite entry showed in Facebook via Friendfeed is confusing among the blogging and microblogging entries.
I mentioned this issue to Brightkite, and they acknowledge it - although they only promised to take a look at it. But the solution might rather be on the Friendfeed side. -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on October 27, 2008 18:03 to the problem "Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new items" in friendfeed:
After a couple of weeks, I gave the remove - re-add drill another try... And it worked ! The Friendfeed Facebook app is updating the Newsfeed again... Let's hope it lasts - maybe the problem has actualle been fixed. -
Jean-Marc Liotier replied on October 27, 2008 17:43 to the idea "FriendFeed and Facebook integration" in Brightkite:
I like the Friendfeed integration very much. I import my Friendfeed to the Facebook Newsfeed. I use Friendfeed as the hub of my lifestreams, which I aggregate there and then redistribute to social sites such as Facebook.
In Friendfeed, the Brightkite entries show up like :
You checked in on brightkite.com
Rue Linné, 75005 Paris
Very good.
The problem is that the same entry imported in Facebook will show up in the Newsfeed as :
Jean-Marc posted Rue Linné, 75005 Paris - Comment or View your FriendFeed ».
Baaad. A prefix "such as checked in" should be included instead of just the place name. With nothing like it, readers have no way to see that this is a check-in and not a blog post.
The body of entries in the Brightkite RSS stream mentions lines such as :
liotier checked in @ Rue Linné, 75005 Paris
So it is correct. It is actually the Friendfeed Facebook app that picks only the subject of the entry, instead of the body :
You: Rue Linné, 75005 Paris (via brightkite.com)
Which corresponds to what Facebook shows into the Newsfeed.
In summary, the problem is the compound of :
- The subject of a Friendfeed Brighkite entry not containing "checked in" as a prefix
- Facebook picking only the subject of the entry.
So either :
- Get Friendfeed to alter the format of the Friendfeed Brighkite entries in the Friendfeed RSS to include "checked in" as a prefix
- or get Friendfeed to change its Facebook app to pick the body of Brightkite entries.
For now a Brightkite entry showed in Facebook via Friendfeed is confusing in among blogging or microblogging entries. -
Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "FriendFeed and Facebook integration" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier marked one of Sean's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Sean replied to the problem "facebook not updating status".
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Jean-Marc Liotier replied on October 20, 2008 16:59 to the problem "Ping.Fm down?" in Ping.fm:
The site was unreachable for a while. In the last few days, I have also seen the XMPP interface unresponsive quite a few times.
We should start tracking them - maybe using a script to post XMPP messages at regular intervals and check that they appear at the other end on the publication sites. -
Jean-Marc Liotier started following the question "Brightkite S60 Client" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "Automatic GPS updates" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier started following the idea "GPS based phone applet" in Brightkite.
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Jean-Marc Liotier reported a problem in friendfeed on October 15, 2008 16:39:
Friendfeed Facebook application does not update with new itemsI installed the FriendFeed Facebook application - it worked for a while. Then it ceased to work : new entries seem not to be imported anymore and nothing from FriendFeed appears in the Facebook News Feed anymore.
I am not the only one to experience this : judging only from the wall and the forum of the FriendFeed Facebook application, there are dozen of users reporting the problem, and they are only the ones that complain - the number who experience it may be orders of magnitude higher.
FriendFeed has answered me, explaining that they are aware of the problem, and working on a fix.
FriendFeed explained me that the Facebook session key is no longer valid for some reason. By remove the FriendFeed application from Facebook, and then re-adding it, it was supposed to start updating again. But I tried that fix a couple of time and waited for a couple of days to see if any updates get through, but none did.
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