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aaryno replied on September 19, 2008 21:37 to the idea "I received an invite e-mail although I'm already a member." in Brightkite:

This has been an open problem for three months already. Lesley said that you will automatically be friended (optionally) to your inviter. That makes sense to me, but I still don't understand why Brightkite hasn't thrown in at least the username of the inviter. It can't be that hard! Meanwhile, for those of us with an account that get these anonymous "kind soul" invites are not getting connected to the very users we WANT to be connected with: our friends.

Now, I'm not going to send an email to my entire contact list every time I get a Brightkite invite (I'm not even sure I want to publicize this until I believe it has good support or at least is easy to use. So far, the easy to use part is severely lacking because of this outstanding issue with connecting with friends). Nor am I going to search one by one for my friends using the Friend Search...

I was really excited about this product when I found it, but I am increasingly doubtful that this product is going to have much of an impact. From the Brightkite FAQ:

"With Brightkite you can see where your friends are, what they’re up to, see what's going on around you, and meet real-world friends."

This is going to be very difficult if you don't have any "friends."

martijnengler started following the problem "Unicode character counts" in Twitter.

Mo set one of Mo's replies as an official response to "adwords campaigns" in Become

Mo replied on August 28, 2008 08:06 to the question "adwords campaigns" in Become:

you can't do it at the moment, but it's something we're thinking about adding in the future.

Mo set one of Mo's replies as an official response to "analytics campaigns?" in Become

Mo replied on August 28, 2008 08:05 to the question "analytics campaigns?" in Become:

Campaigns defined in activeCommerce show up as “user-defined values” in Google Analytics.

To view visitor statistics in Analytics segmented by activeCommerce campaign, log into the Analytics dashboard for your site, then choose “Visitors” from the menu on the left and then “User Defined” from the sub-menu expanded below it.

Note that if you change the name of a campaign that has already driven some visitors to your site, both the old and new names will show up in Analytics and you'll have to add the two sets of figures up yourself (this is because we can only pass the name to Analytics, so when it changes Analytics treats it as a new campaign).

Mo replied on August 28, 2008 07:38 to the idea "form builder" in Become:

we're already working on something along these lines; certain areas of the front-end already have support for it (sign-up and “your profile” forms include custom areas, if they're defined), but there isn't a mechanism for creating or editing the forms as an administrator, and the capabilities are quite limited just now—we can capture, but not automatically e-mail or define that some fields are required and some are optional.

because our focus is on other areas of functionality just now, it'll probably be a few months before this is available as an option.

Mo replied on August 28, 2008 07:32 to the idea "EAN / ISBN Pre-population" in Become:

we'll need to work out if this is feasible—while GS1 has a registry of EANs/GTINs, I'm not sure how much information is actually stored, and how much data is readily accessible on the fly.

I suspect that pre-populating anything beyond the brand and product name would probably be impossible, but we would be able to match against existing products if we could get that information.

ISBNs and ISSNs are dealt with differently to GTINs (even though all ISBNs issued in the past couple of years are also valid GTINs numbering-wise), so I'm not sure we'd be able to do too much except identify something as a publication. given that the notion of multiple variations of a product with an ISBN is fairly rare (different editions/cover styles are usually kept as distinct products), we would at least be able to tell you if the ISBN you're entering already exists in activeCommerce to prevent duplicates.

Mo started following the idea "EAN / ISBN Pre-population" in Become.

Mo set one of Mo's replies as an official response to "Summary in Dashboard?" in Become

Mo replied on August 28, 2008 07:26 to the idea "Summary in Dashboard?" in Become:

this is actually due to hit around release 8.9—sometime next month. customisable timeframes is a nice idea, though... hopefully we'll be able to squeeze it in!

A comment on the idea "Tumblr support" in Red Sweater:

I've just run across this thread, so hopefully the more people who chime in, the better...

http://getsatisfaction.com/tumblr/top... – Mo, on August 27, 2008 21:10

Mo started following the question "Are there any plans for "update" or "delete" actions in the API?" in Tumblr.

A comment on the idea "Tumblr support" in Red Sweater:

Oh, that's much better news than I was expecting! I guess I should probably lend my (inconsiderable, granted) weight to support of the idea of extending the API, in that case :) – Mo, on August 27, 2008 21:08

redsweater replied on August 27, 2008 21:06 to the idea "Tumblr support" in Red Sweater:

Hi Mo - I really want to support Tumblr and in fact I have a more or less working implementation. The problem is Tumblr's API is missing some critical components that I think are required in order to provide an acceptable user experience for MarsEdit users. In particular, it doesn't allow for simple actions like "editing an existing post."

So until the Tumblr API matures a bit more, I'm not ilkely to turn on Tumblr support in MarsEdit. It would be great if the Tumblr team was more interested in updating the API, but so far my communications with them have not yielded much enthusiasm.

Daniel

nevali shared an idea in Red Sweater on August 27, 2008 21:01:

Tumblr support

I'd imagine it's probably quite a bit of work to do, but I wanted to throw the idea out there anyway... support for Tumblr would be really rather nice (while standalone Tumblr clients are cool, it'd be nice to be able to update from MarsEdit if that's where all my grown-up blogs live!)

timerino replied on August 24, 2008 00:46 to the idea "Let me take pictures!" in Connected Flow:

I've been stuck in a hospital for a week without my laptop but with my iphone. I'm starting to understand that the iphone is a bigger vehicle for community online than my computers: it's at where I am.

I'd love to have a photostream of my stay via exposure ... facebook just didn't work. Maybe one photo at a time limitation? "Mobile Foto" promises to do some uploading...but your application looks better built. Even if it's one photo at a time: please allow me to upload photos spontaneously with geotags to build a better photostream. I don't need ALL the photo roll ... I can live with a few or one-at-a-time ... I understand there are limitations with bandwidth and connection reliability. I can live with lower resolution photos (as a limitation from my iphone) so long I can get content online. I can wait for higher resolution photo's when I'm in front of my mac's.

thx!

timerino replied on August 24, 2008 00:23 to the idea "Let me take pictures!" in Connected Flow:

Less applications! just let Exposure Pro enable the upload of photos!

Lalita replied on August 23, 2008 23:30 to the question "Why does twitter lie about sms charges?" in Twitter:

I an NOT from the UK (Indianapolis, Indiana USA) and am getting charged for sms messages -- tweets -- from Verizon, which it treating them as data usage and not just SMS messages (I get dinged for both--losing one SMS message from my 500 message allowance and getting charged an overage fee from Verizon because I don't have a data plan).

This month is was an extra $100 US. Man am I pissed. I'm telling everyone I know who tweets through Verizon that it will cost them $.45 each and drain their monthly voice limit as well.

hackbarth started following the problem "Unicode character counts" in Twitter.