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vtknitboy replied on August 21, 2008 03:09 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

i have unlimited texting on my phone, and even though i have email and web access on my phone, it doesn't work in my area (parts of vermont), so txting ping updates from my phone is paramount for me, otherwise, it's useless as i use brightkite (which DOES do this from my phone).

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

i have unlimited texting on my phone, and even though i have email and web access on my phone, it doesn't work in my area (parts of vermont), so txting ping updates from my phone is paramount for me, otherwise, it's useless as i use brightkite (which DOES do this from my phone). – vtknitboy, on August 21, 2008 03:09

Callum Macdonald replied on August 20, 2008 10:50 to the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

Instead of requesting a new password you can specify your own password. Just leave the "current password" field empty and enter your new password twice. Then you have a username and a password for identi.ca.

tre0700 replied on July 27, 2008 14:39 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

Hey you guys. I just posted to ping.fm via txt using my email address that ping gave me. Listen, they say it costs too much, then send a txt with your e-mail address it freaking works and there is no charge for a garage based site as awesome as this one. Just sayin

Callum Macdonald replied on July 25, 2008 00:26 to the idea "Putting up a local SMS gateway to post to Ping.fm - How?" in Ping.fm:

Simplest option is to create an SMS to email gateway. Like this guy:
http://dan-lane.livejournal.com/61360...

Until ping.fm launch their own SMS service. But even then, it might still be a US based shortcode, in which case, it probably won't work for international users.

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

A shortcode might complicate matters. It might not work internationally. A regular GSM no should work fine, although it's harder to remember. I believe you can get incoming SMS gateways fairly inexpensively, but it still might be beyond the budget. – Callum Macdonald, on July 24, 2008 23:59

chupchap replied on July 17, 2008 14:00 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

Well guys heard of India? Ya we used to make flying carpets once upon a time anyways what I wanted to say was.. SMS rates are dirt cheap here.. It would be great if you guys could do something over ere and micro-blogging too is catching up fast

A comment on the question "plurk not plurking" in Ping.fm:

first check your sent messages and make sure ping is attempting to send to plurk, it should have the orange plurk icon in the services list. http://ping.fm/recent/ If it is, and you still have the problem, let me know your plurk username and i can check into it more. – Adam, on July 09, 2008 00:20

mary replied on July 09, 2008 00:03 to the question "plurk not plurking" in Ping.fm:

I have never been able to get it to update my Plurk. It will update my twitter account. what am I doing wrong.

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

An example of the hyphens/spaces agitatedstate mentions is currently on my twitter profile page: http://twitter.com/reginarivera. I sent this update via my cellphone using my Ping email address. I'd like to NOT have them appear. Thanks! – regina, on July 07, 2008 19:51

A comment on the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

Thanks for the response, Sandy, but that's not what happens with me. I wish it did! What I'd really like now is to be able to delete my Identi.ca account so I can re-create one with the same user name and e-mail address, but NOT using OpenID - but at the moment, as far as I can see, there's no way to delete an existing Identi.ca account - unless I'm missing something! – SomersetBob, on July 07, 2008 16:18

Sandy Kemsley replied on July 07, 2008 15:52 to the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

You don't receive a recovery code, you should be redirected to a page where you can enter your new password.

SomersetBob replied on July 06, 2008 07:01 to the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

I appreciate this problem is probably being worked on, but just to add my experience in case it helps identify what's wrong:

I've tried the above workaround (twice now since joining both indenti.ca and ping.fm 24 hours ago), but no joy.

I received the "recover password" e-mail on both attempts, but on clicking the link, my (IE7) browser couldn't open it (It asked if I want to find a program on the internet to open it), so I copied and pasted it into the address bar. It then went to an identi.ca web page, but the page said there was "no such recovery code".

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

Can you show me a post with this? – Sean, on July 05, 2008 16:23

A comment on the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

Good point about Twitter's not-exactly-wonderful uptime. Still, I don't think it's a reason for not to implement the idea. You'd just have to add the caveat that Twitter isn't always that reliable. It hasn't stopped other services using Twitter. I am a massive fan of ping.fm and I use it a lot- but to be honest I would use it more (and recommend it to my non-techy friends) if we could have SMS- and using Twitter might be a start. – baritoneuk, on July 05, 2008 09:04

agitatedstate replied on July 04, 2008 21:22 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

How come when I update ping.fm via email, it adds a couple of hyphens (and extra space) at the end of the message?

Sean replied on July 04, 2008 20:53 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

Brilliant idea. But, we would have to rely on Twitter's uptime which we all know, isn't too awesome.

Good thinking though.

baritoneuk replied on July 04, 2008 20:47 to the idea "Text Message, SMS, updates from Mobiles to Ping" in Ping.fm:

I am sure it wouldn't be too difficult to send a direct message to ping.fm using Twitter. All that ping.fm would need to build was a Twitterbot. Then ping.fm wouldn't need to pay for any short codes- it would just use Twitter. That's what ChaCha, Remember the Milk, Timer and GCal do.

Sandy Kemsley replied on July 04, 2008 12:52 to the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

I tried the workaround again today (requesting password recovery from identi.ca) and it worked, so I'm good to go now. Thanks for your help!

Marius Kallhardt replied on July 04, 2008 06:53 to the question "Can I use Ping.fm with Identi.ca via OpenID?" in Ping.fm:

Used the workaround, but openid would be nice.