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Marjolein Katsma started following the idea "Allow wildcard suggestions for application executables" in Wakoopa.

Marjolein Katsma started following the idea "Allow to see apps stats per category (Web, Windows or Mac))" in Wakoopa.

Marjolein Katsma replied on November 01, 2008 17:21 to the idea "Wakoopa - Use Gravatar!" in Wakoopa:

And then there's Pavatar - I like that a lot better than Gravatar, because it's not tied to an email address (of which I have an endless variety). Anyway, if you want a better chance of people having an avatar at all, you could add that to the list.

Marjolein Katsma started following the idea "easily discover new interesting software" in Wakoopa.

Marjolein Katsma replied on November 01, 2008 17:03 to the question "Adding software Categories" in Wakoopa:

I just uploaded data and an icon for SQLyog. No category for it: it's database management and administration.

I don't think categories need to be very fine-grained (e.g., just use "content management system" instead of the more specific "wiki"), but there is not anything for databases yet.

Marjolein Katsma started following the idea "Wakoopa should exclude some apps from "recommendations"" in Wakoopa.

Marjolein Katsma shared an idea in Wakoopa on November 01, 2008 14:42:

An icon for apps without an icon

Currently we see a black circle with a white star for applications that Wakoopa doesn't have an icon for. Some of these can be "solved" by extracting an icon and submitting it, but some applications simply do not have an icon.

It would be nice if we could have a specific generic icon for that situation ("has no icon"), to visually distinguish it from "icon unknown".

(One example I have is sync.exe, a little Windows utility from (originally) Sysinternals that flushes all disk writes. And more of their utilities don't actually have icons: they're designed to be small and functional, not pretty. :))

Marjolein Katsma reported a problem in Wakoopa on November 01, 2008 14:33:

Another mis-identification

A little while ago I suddenly found "Wesabe Desktop Uploader" in my usage list.

I added a comment for the program (I had never even heard of "Wesabe"!), but I'm now fairly sure that what it actually was was Zazzle Uploader. The file name is Uploader.exe, and its internal description is "Zazzle Desktop Uploader"; internal name and original name are also "Uploader.exe", and product version is 1.0.1.18245.

It shows as only a few second's usage, but that is because it doesn't actually run on my computer: it immediately exits with an error. Given this, and the short usage time, I'm 99.99% sure the actual program used was indeed Zazzle Uploader instead of Wesabe Desktop Uploader.

Marjolein Katsma started following the question "OpenMicroBlogging spec" in Twitter.

Marjolein Katsma replied on September 08, 2008 18:23 to the discussion "Pagination, Timeline and Archive Fixes" in Twitter:

@Chris Thomson and @mdy,

Thanks for doing Twitter's customer relations work for them.

A comment on the problem "Why Older button is not working?" in Twitter:

@mdy are you doing customer relations for Twitter now? :p – Marjolein Katsma, on September 08, 2008 18:11

Marjolein Katsma replied on September 08, 2008 12:42 to the discussion "Pagination, Timeline and Archive Fixes" in Twitter:

@Chris Thomson - no, it would not be "impossible" at all, to link all relevant threads to here. It should be expected, and just done.

Marjolein Katsma replied on September 08, 2008 12:40 to the discussion "Pagination, Timeline and Archive Fixes" in Twitter:

Posting a note in one or even some of the threads about the problems being addressed, but not all, is still a major FAIL.

Surely it's part of Crystal's job to keep track of those things and connect back to us? Not doing so just continues the impression we might as well be talking to a blank wall - all that comes back is maybe a faint echo. :(

Marjolein Katsma replied on September 08, 2008 10:15 to the discussion "Pagination, Timeline and Archive Fixes" in Twitter:

And why isn't this posted to the respective threads about these problems right here on GetSatisfaction?

Ignoring active threads about problems when those problems are being addressed or even solved, and instead starting a whole new one, is not the way to handle it.

It would seem Twitter (collective) still has a lot to learn about customer relations.

A comment on the problem "Why Older button is not working?" in Twitter:

ROFL! Finally some light relief in this thread (yes, very clever of GS to auto-close tags). Alas, we're all waiting, and the search suggestion doesn't make much sense. Meanwhile I'm trying bloglines to subscribe to feeds for my most important followees........... – Marjolein Katsma, on August 08, 2008 18:00

A comment on the problem "Why Older button is not working?" in Twitter:

"anyone doing ANYTHING about this" - I doubt it, to be honest. It might have been solved as soon as the bug was *introduced* but it seems Twitter just doesn't know what they did when, develops in a production environment, and uses us as guinea pigs. Too few people are having this problem, so other things are probably more sexy to work on. If they *really* were working on this, there wold be updates, no? – Marjolein Katsma, on August 02, 2008 05:12

Marjolein Katsma started following the idea "Public/Private Tags for People I Follow" in Twitter.

Marjolein Katsma replied on July 25, 2008 06:24 to the problem "Followers and Following are all gone - when will this be fixed?" in Twitter:

Woke up to a nice surprise: got all of my followers and followees are back. :)

And a nasty surprise: my Older button which started working yesterday (after more than three weeks!) stopped working again. :(

I'm giving up on Twitter. Enough is enough.

Marjolein Katsma replied on July 25, 2008 06:09 to the problem "Why Older button is not working?" in Twitter:

Spoke too soon, alas.

This morning I woke up to find I have my followers and followees back. (Good.) And my Older button stopped working again.

NOT FIXED!

(Back to the Twitterfox+pencil+paper method to catch up with tweets that came in overnight - almost 100 this time.)

Marjolein Katsma replied on July 24, 2008 21:29 to the problem "Why Older button is not working?" in Twitter:

Well, that was a nice theory - and it's just been dispoved. I've been keeping a very close eye on my timeline to watch my latest followee stream scroll off, fully expecting paging to stop working again after that.

It didn't!

So, it seems that - at least for me - the paging ("Older") problem is finally solved. Thanks, Twitter!

Now go and solve the following/followee problem already - we're pitching tents for all the refugees on identi.ca! (Which is where I mostly live already....)