matthew's dashboard

matthew shared an idea in Brightkite on November 04, 2009 20:20:

Did you mean @soandso on Twitter?

One of the things I really liked about the old site is that if you mentioned somebody who didn't exist, the linked-to page would ask if you meant @soandso on Twitter... but that's gone! My idea is as follows: make it ungone.

matthew replied on November 04, 2009 19:00 to the problem "Street Intersection Checkins Broken?" in Brightkite:

Well, both. It neither appears in the default list of nearby locations (which I didn't really expect because that often doesn't include the location I'm looking for) nor shows up when I search for it explicitly.

matthew reported a problem in Brightkite on October 26, 2009 13:58:

Street Intersection Checkins Broken?

It seems like since the upgrade, I haven't been able to check in at any street intersections. The search just never finds them.

matthew started following the idea "Using street intersection for checkin" in Brightkite.

matthew replied on October 21, 2009 04:07 to the question "Can I post a public note in a private location?" in Brightkite:

Is this still possible in BK 2.0? It seems to share with Twitter, the note must be public (which means the map shows the exact location).

matthew reported a problem in Readernaut on September 09, 2009 00:19:

Special Characters not supported?

I tried to change the author of Jane Eyre from "Charlotte Bronte" to "Charlotte Brontë," but the change doesn't appear to have stuck (though it is in the book's history). Maybe a charset setting in the database?

matthew marked one of Nathan Borror's replies in Readernaut as useful. Nathan Borror replied to the problem "I just messed up a book.".

matthew marked one of Nathan Borror's replies in Readernaut as useful. Nathan Borror replied to the problem "Friends Timeline Feed Doesn't Contain Friends?".

matthew reported a problem in Readernaut on September 06, 2009 02:36:

I just messed up a book.

I just started reading Jane Eyre. After marking my progress, I was looking around the website and noticed that I could edit the information about the book. Thinking that this would only edit my copy, I updated it to reflect the edition I was reading (a Project Gutenberg eBook). Yikes! It looks like I just overwrote the edition information for everybody! This is definitely not what I intended (I really wanted to create a new edition, I guess). Is there a way to fix my mistake? Also, is there any way to accomplish what I intended to do and create a Project Gutenberg edition?

matthew shared an idea in Brightkite on August 20, 2009 18:24:

Create a separate Post a Note page/URL.

Currently, to post a note, you go to the friendstream page and click the "Post a note" button, which pulls up a lightbox form to enter your note. However, this is done entirely with JavaScript (with no non-js alternative), making it impossible to bookmark the "post a note" page. I'd like a URL that takes me directly to the post-a-note page, so I can bookmark it and post notes to Brightkite quickly and without using my mouse.

matthew started following the problem "I want to change my username to reflect my real name." in Last.fm.

matthew shared an idea in Readernaut on July 28, 2009 23:42:

Current Book URI

A small addition that I would like to request is a URL that always points to the last book you've updated progress on. (For example, http://readernaut.com/matthewwithanm/... would redirect to http://readernaut.com/matthewwithanm/...) That way, I could bookmark this one url in order to get to my current book's page to update progress and post notes very quickly.

matthew reported a problem in Readernaut on June 28, 2009 14:50:

Note detail pages don't specify what kind of note it is.

While the timeline shows whether a note is a remark or quote, the note page itself doesn't. Therefore, anybody going to this page, for example, would have no way of knowing that it's a quote from the book and not something I've written.

matthew reported a problem in Readernaut on June 27, 2009 21:19:

Wrong tab highlighted when editing notes.

When you edit a quote, for example, the "Note" tab above the textarea is selected (instead of the "quote" tab). Posting doesn't seem to change the type, but it sure is confusing.

matthew marked one of Nathan Borror's replies in Readernaut as useful. Nathan Borror replied to the idea "blog.readernaut.com".

matthew reported a problem in Readernaut on May 20, 2009 18:15:

Friends Timeline Feed Doesn't Contain Friends?

I feel like I must be misunderstanding something here, but my friends' timeline feed (http://readernaut.com/feeds/rss/matth...) contains only my activity, even though my friends' notes feed (http://readernaut.com/feeds/rss/matth...) shows that my friends have posted notes.

As I've said on Twitter, I'm not even sure why my friends' timeline feed contains my activity at all, but I'm more confused about why it doesn't contain my friends'.

OT, the RSS feeds are being delivered as text/xml. Not a big deal, but some applications (web browsers) will do a better job of displaying feeds when the correct mime type is used.

matthew marked one of Nathan Borror's replies in Readernaut as useful. Nathan Borror replied to the question "Is there a way to show notes from a specific book with a specific tag?".

A comment on the question "Is there a way to show notes from a specific book with a specific tag?" in Readernaut:

You're a busy guy! Thanks! – matthew, on May 19, 2009 15:22

matthew asked a question in Readernaut on May 19, 2009 14:49:

Is there a way to show notes from a specific book with a specific tag?

I have some tags that are used on multiple books. Is there a way to see/link to the notes from a single book with a specific tag?

matthew shared an idea in Readernaut on April 23, 2009 14:49:

blog.readernaut.com

How about a readernaut blog? Twitter is great, but you seem to be constantly working on stuff and sometimes it would be nice to get information about new additions, what's next, etc. in more than 140 character blurbs.