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maslowbeer replied on February 26, 2009 03:14 to the question "How do I reassign images to another placestream?" in Brightkite:

@emilycatherine thanks for the reply; I'm aware I could do what you suggest, however I want to preserve the timeline of my stream. Additionally, what I'm referring to is taking an existing image with timestamp that posted to the improper place and moving it to another placestream.

maslowbeer asked a question in Twitter on July 16, 2008 17:39:

Twitter randomly unfollowing people

For no apparent reason, twitter randomly unfollows people I follow. Sometimes it takes weeks for me to realize I no longer see someone's tweets and have to refollow them manually. Additionally, I occasionally notice that the person whom I inadvertently unfollowed also no longer follows me, thus making it difficult to reconnect to them since they may not see my @ replies (e.g., @scobleizer - exacerbated by older pagination bug and replies tab bug) and I cannot dm them.

maslowbeer asked a question in Twitter on July 05, 2008 21:08:

not seeing others' tweets

In the last hour I realized that I'm not seeing anyone else's tweets on my timeline through the web site. Visiting the individual pages of people I follow shows they have posted tweets, but the only ones I see are my own.

maslowbeer started following the problem "Tweet Delete." in Twitter.

maslowbeer asked a question in Brightkite on June 25, 2008 01:36:

How do I reassign images to another placestream?

How do I "reassign" images to a placestream? I have a phone that sometimes queues up the outgoing emails and sends them after I've changed locations. For example, I took pictures from the golf course today only to have them post after checking in at a coffee shop hours later. I need a way to "move" the image back to the previous place stream.

maslowbeer started following the problem "Website photo posting down?" in Brightkite.

A comment on the problem "Website photo posting down?" in Brightkite:

I'm seeing the same exact thing. What gives? – maslowbeer, on June 06, 2008 19:15

maslowbeer asked a question in Brightkite on May 21, 2008 19:05:

Want to post a note at time of check in and not as two separate events

Would like to post what I'm doing while checking in. Since I post my updates to twitter, people find the "I'm at foo" updates with a map annoying. I would like to instead post a note at the same time I'm checking in, so the post would be "I'm at Starbucks, drinking coffee" with the location information as usual. So something like a "@office working on paperwork" or "?starbucks - drinking coffee" or something to that effect.

maslowbeer asked a question in Brightkite on May 21, 2008 19:02:

GPS location check ins

We need the capability to check in using GPS capability if it's on our phones. For example, searching for a ubiquitous location like a gas station or starbucks, etc., and I checked in somewhere a few miles away then it's impossible to use the "? starbucks" to check in since there are so many locations. Google Maps uses location based cell tower triangulation on my Nokia E61i which works excellent. If I could use that as my location from which to base my search to start that would make life tons easier. Right now I end up not checking in at all since it's impossible. Another simple suggestion would be to use the zip code or intersection or address in the business search. For example today I was at a Shell station at 902 Richmond. Typing "? Shell" and going through 6 pages of results never brought up the listing so I gave up. If I could have typed "?Shell 902 richmond" that would have made life easy!

maslowbeer asked a question in Brightkite on May 18, 2008 20:15:

Need better searching for business listings via SMS and web

We need better proximity business searches. For example, with a starbucks on every street corner in my city, if I do a ?starbucks from my phone, it doesn't do a very good job of finding the closest one. Even from the web site, it only returns one page of matches; rarely is the sbux location I'm looking for in that first page. So you need to return pages of listings to find it.

When finding businesses with SMS, perhaps if there are more than 10 listings, you should first respond with another question asking for a nearby landmark, street address, street intersection or zip code to really hone down the search results before presenting pages and pages of results via SMS.

maslowbeer asked a question in Brightkite on May 18, 2008 20:07:

How do I add a new business listing?

How do we add a business listing not currently in your database? I'm sure you're pulling from an external database or something but we need to be able to add listings so we can check in at new businesses.

maslowbeer started following the problem "Daily Twitter Break (broke)" in Twitter.

maslowbeer shared an idea in Twitter on May 01, 2008 17:18:

Don't count URL length in web UI before it gets shortened towards 140 character limit

Don't count long URL in 140 characters through web. For long URLs that will be shrunk anyway, I'm constantly having to go to tinyurl or other service to generate a short URL and copy and paste it. If there is a long URL that will be rewritten, the interface should know the max length of the shortened URL will be and only use that to count # of characters.

maslowbeer replied on May 01, 2008 17:14 to the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter:

There is no doubt this is a bug (I hope they don't pawn it off as a "feature"). I think they modified JavaScript to disable the update button or something and it is having unintended consequences. Very annoying.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

maslowbeer started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.