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Mitchell McKenna reported a problem in Facebook on February 16, 2009 05:29:

"Automatically Import Activity" from Youtube, Flickr, Digg, etc Not Working

Facebook isn't automatically importing my activity from Youtube, Flickr, Digg, etc. When I manually click "update now" it works fine, but facebook isn't doing it automatically. How often is facebook supposed to import external site activity into the news feed?

Mitchell McKenna started following the idea "Scheduled status messages via ping.fm?" in Ping.fm.

Mitchell McKenna started following the question "Why Isn't There A Way To Post Date and Schedule Pings? WHY?" in Ping.fm.

Mitchell McKenna replied on February 04, 2009 22:02 to the idea "change the source names" in notify.me:

Can't wait for this feature! Getting IM's that start with feed titles like
"@mitchellmckenna - Twitter Search . . ."
can be confusing :S

Keep up the good work!

Mitchell McKenna started following the idea "change the source names" in notify.me.

Mitchell McKenna reported a problem in Remember The Milk on February 04, 2009 06:52:

RTM Firefox Extension + Gmail Right-side Chat = Mess!

When a user has Gmail Labs: Right-side Chat enabled with the RTM firefox extension it used to look nice like this...


But now that gmail has updated it's UI, the RTM tasklist overlaps the gmail chat list like below...

Mitchell McKenna replied on February 04, 2009 06:29 to the idea "Friendfeed should add Get Satisfaction topics and replies!" in friendfeed:

I would love to see this, I hinted at it a couple days ago here

Mitchell McKenna started following the idea "Friendfeed should add Get Satisfaction topics and replies!" in friendfeed.

Mitchell McKenna shared an idea in friendfeed on February 04, 2009 06:25:

Add Feed Filters for Daily Activity Emails

Add the ability to choose what types of feeds go into daily activity email.

Eg. I follow most of my friends on twitter, so I would like to not include twitter updates in my daily email. Any chance of adding filters to the daily e-mail?

Mitchell McKenna replied on January 26, 2009 17:01 to the question "Can Ping.fm use my friendfeed to update my facebook status?" in Ping.fm:

if you've already got gmail open, why not update your status through gmail
http://ping.fm/email/

Mitchell McKenna replied on January 26, 2009 16:48 to the question "Can Ping.fm use my friendfeed to update my facebook status?" in Ping.fm:

why not just update your status through ping.fm and let ping.fm update your other accounts?

A comment on the question "Filters for Twitter's Facebook App" in Twitter:

Seeing someone reply to themselves on twitter could get confusing to follow. Also, some people filter out replies so they just see people's updates. This could also cause problems with lifestreaming services. – Mitchell McKenna, on January 24, 2009 22:14

Mitchell McKenna shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on January 17, 2009 19:14:

User RSS Feed For ONLY When They 'Ask a question', 'Share and idea'...

There are several user's on get satisfaction who I would follow their RSS feed, however it includes when someone else makes 'comments' or 'starts following' on the same topics. This would annoyingly fill my RSS reader.

It would be nice you could supply an alternative RSS feed which just shows when the user 'Asks a question', 'Share an idea' 'Report a problem' or 'Give Praise'. This way I could follow the most important activity of my favorite users on GetSatisfaction.

Another advantage I could see to this is GetSatisfaction being considered a social network in lifestreaming services such as friendfeed since this feed is available. This would greatly promote the site!

See the concept art below...

Mitchell McKenna shared an idea in Microsoft Live Labs on January 17, 2009 18:28:

Live Mesh | Select Sub-Folders To Not Sync

Sometimes you don't want EVERY sub-folder of a folder to sync with live mesh. It would be great if you could select sub-folders of live mesh sync folder to not get synced.

For example, I sync my Documents folder, however my IM logs are kept in the Documents folder. This causes the live mesh notifier to pop-up constantly saying files have been updated. Another example is a folder in Documents which I store large files, I don't really want these synced either.

Some would suggest just selecting sub-folders individually to sync, but then I have to do this with every new folder I create that I want synced - tedious.

Mitchell McKenna shared an idea in Facebook on January 10, 2009 20:25:

Ability to Add Alternative Name of Friend or Nickname

Sometimes friends register their name in facebook as something your not used to calling them. For example I call my friend "Jimmy" but his name in facebook is "James", but I never remember that so when I type into facebook "Jimmy" facebook autosuggest never finds him. It would be nice if you could add alternative spellings of people's names or nicknames to avoid this problem.

Mitchell McKenna replied on January 08, 2009 00:31 to the question "Can't Add Certain Friend to "Whose status updates should go to my phone?" List" in Facebook:

I checked with my friend Chris, and he did have that setting turned off, but even when I got him to turn on "Profile Status" I still couldn't add him

Mitchell McKenna replied on December 15, 2008 16:50 to the question "Filters for Twitter's Facebook App" in Twitter:

I've used Ping.fm - great service for updating multiple networks.

I'm just saying, twitter has the facebook-status syncing option, it wouldn't take much to support filters, the TwitterSync Facebook App supported this until twitter shutdown IM which the app ran on.

Mitchell McKenna shared an idea in socialmedian on December 15, 2008 14:25:

Include Number of Clips in Daily E-mail

Beside each article in the daily news e-mail it would be nice to have the number of clips the article had when the e-mail was sent out. To know how popular it is already.

Often I will see entries and think "well that doesn't sound like that great of an article, but it did get sent in my daily e-mail so it must be popular...", but when I go to the article it only has 1 clip.

Mitchell McKenna started following the problem "facebook" in Twitter.

Mitchell McKenna asked a question in Twitter on December 13, 2008 18:51:

Filters for Twitter's Facebook App

For example, only update facebook status with hashtag "#fb" or don't update if post contains "!fb" or "http://", etc

I love having it sync so I only have to update 1 service, but I feel it limits my tweets because I don't wanna update my facebook status too often and annoy people.