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Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. – pacificIT, on June 15, 2008 15:09

Hi Adam. Thanks for responding. Quite the disappointment though.

I think the discussion is REALLY missing the point. If you look closely at every service you have added, there really are ONLY TWO TYPES of services. Those which look alright with the postings as they are (such as Twitter or Plurk) or others which will prefix the posting with an account identifier. In my case it is Robert. It is the same on LinkedIn status, Facebook, Plaxo and a few others. There's NOTHING ELSE to confuse "people".

Presently, as it stands, if I post a status update and I don't include a separator, the post from Ping looks like this "Robert Thanks for the update!" . Though it looks like I'm thanking myself for something, it really is intended for those in my network. Therefore I must put in the extra ": " before every post to be "Robert : Thanks for the update!" Which makes more sense. Even if Twitter shows it as ": Thanks for the update", no one will even notice the extra two characters at the front though I may or may not be consistent in remembering it. It just simply makes using Ping.fm that much more harder.

This is turning into such a great service Adam and I'm certainly evangelizing it in every tech community I am involved with.. both in North America and in Japan. I hope you see the value of this and take another more serious look to making this an "option" available for those wanting it.

Completely agree with this. Good call Andrew! Just need to have Kristopher Tate of Zooomr connect with the Ping.fm guys. I think the technical side (connecting the APIs) should be a breeze.

Hiro was very helpful and suggested the use of long/lat when setting up Placemarks. From there it's pretty easy... in the UK, Japan.. wherever!

(Written from Nagoya, Japan)