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Pascal Van Hecke replied on October 15, 2009 09:30 to the idea "37 manieren om de overheid te innoveren" in Ambtenaar 2.0:

Nice, maar dit is niet de plek om materiaal te posten: wordt enkel gelezen door de paar mensen die de helpdesk van http://ambtenaar20.nl doen.

Om te kunnen posten op de community site (kan in een eigen blog of in het discussieforum) ga naar http://lidworden.ambtenaar20.nl/

Pascal Van Hecke replied on September 21, 2009 19:11 to the idea "google reader should let me keep old items unread!" in Google Reader:

I come from Bloglines, where they limit the nr of unread items to 200 (at least they used to, haven't checked lately).

I felt that was a more natural choice. Fast-moving blogs or searchfeeds hit the 200 limit rather quickly. But that's OK, because most of the time it's timely information (so value decreases quickly with age).

However, there was a long tail of valuable feeds (mostly sporadically updated blogs) that I didn't want to miss any updates of - yet that didn't contain really urgent info. No problem here to stay under the 200 limit, even if you only caught up months later.

I don't say the Bloglines system is better for everyone - I would already be happy if the automatic expiry date was configurable in Reader.

Pascal Van Hecke started following the idea "google reader should let me keep old items unread!" in Google Reader.

Pascal Van Hecke replied on September 06, 2009 13:48 to the question "Embed a Hashtag scroll in my website?" in Twitter:

http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/ should give you a head start.

Pascal Van Hecke replied on August 19, 2009 10:04 to the question "merging 2 Ning accounts" in Ambtenaar 2.0:

Het ziet ernaar uit dat dit niet kan.
Er is een langlopende discussie in het Ning Getsatisfaction forum over hetzelfde onderwerp:
http://getsatisfaction.com/ning/topic...

Pascal Van Hecke reported a problem in IntenseDebate on January 07, 2009 22:23:

formatting of comment rss feeds is lost

Text formatting in the RSS feed of a comment thread is not preserved. (see illustrations above)

pascalvanhecke asked a question in Vidoop on June 25, 2008 10:07:

"This URL appears to be a broken link." (it's working for me though)

"This URL appears to be a broken link." error message on trying to associate a functioning openid page.

However, the pages (with delegated openid) I tried (weblog.vanhecke.info and pascal.vanhecke.info - hosted by different parties) work perfectly fine for me.

Dns isssue?

pascalvanhecke shared an idea in OpenID Foundation on May 20, 2008 10:00:

Demand for OpenID providers to claim identity, apart from consuming

Hi,

this is a great way to pool demand for OpenID consumption (so you can login with your existing openID to a website).

Another issue is that sometimes I explicitly want to claim the identity I've built up somewhere (on Site X). If that particular site X were an openID provider, then I could prove to yet another site Y that I am this or that person by logging in to Y with my X OpenID account.

Typical example: there's a flurry of web communities, forums and blogs on Second Life. It would be great to actually prove there that I really am e.g. http://secondlife.com/avatar/MySecond...

So there should be a way to demand that a site becomes an openID provider as well...

pascalvanhecke replied on May 20, 2008 09:44 to the problem ""OpenID verification failed :("" in OpenID Foundation:

I have the same issue with my blog url pascal.vanhecke.info that delegates to my identity provider http://openid.openminds.be/ .

pascal.vanhecke.info _does_ pass the test at http://www.openidenabled.com/resource... succesfully...

another url, pascal.vanhecke.name, that delegates to the Janrain-operated # <link href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" rel="openid.server" />
_does_ work however :-S

pascalvanhecke asked a question in Thmbnl on March 17, 2008 16:45:

Wordpress plugin does not work out of the box?

Hello people,

Two issues:

- just wondering: why isn't the wordpress plugin pre-authenticated? I guess it is intentional, since there is no auto-authorize checkbox next to the download button, but I cannot see a reason why?
- Some hosts like Dreamhost have URL file access disabled, so you get errors like
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in
....

Here's a diff for another software library with the same problem: curl php library instead of file_get_contents is used, if available:
http://code.google.com/p/hkit/source/...

pascalvanhecke marked one of Cris Pearson's replies in Seesmic as useful. Cris Pearson replied to the idea "Feature suggestion: autocomplete on direct message or @-replies".

pascalvanhecke started following the idea "Please support OAuth on Twitter and Pownce (and Ma.gnolia!)." in Socialthing.

pascalvanhecke shared an idea in Seesmic on January 30, 2008 17:08:

Feature suggestion: autocomplete on direct message or @-replies

This is another feature I used in Tweetr and found very handy:

when starting to type
d xyz or
@xyz
the username is autocompleted based on your followers' list.
(I know the same can be achieved by clicking the icons on the profile after hovering, but that user might not be in your timeline ... and I'm a keyboard type of guy :)

pascalvanhecke shared an idea in Seesmic on January 30, 2008 16:57:

auto url shortening missing

A feature that is implicit in Tweetr but is explicit in Twhirl is URL shortening. For me, URLs should be shortened automatically (I don't care about the used service), only when I explicitly want to keep the copy-pasted url I should be able to undo with CTRL+Z.

pascalvanhecke replied on January 15, 2008 15:02 to the idea "Don't change the e-mail subject line" in I want Sandy:

It does not help if you use Gmail however, see my complaint at
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

pascalvanhecke replied on January 10, 2008 12:12 to the idea "Sandy changes the subject of an email so that it breaks a Gmail conversation - can I customize mail subject template?" in I want Sandy:

I've also read
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

meanwhile.

the email headers are added indeed, but that doesn't seem to work for Gmail...

The sent mail had
Message-ID: <bfda18900801100354i7d1d13bdt12d0f38a0...>
in the headers

the reply had
In-Reply-To: <bfda18900801100354i7d1d13bdt12d0f38a0...>
References: <bfda18900801100354i7d1d13bdt12d0f38a0...>

In the headers.
That apparently works fine for Outlook but not for Gmail...

pascalvanhecke replied on January 10, 2008 10:36 to the idea "Sandy changes the subject of an email so that it breaks a Gmail conversation - can I customize mail subject template?" in I want Sandy:

I've given it some thought meanwhile, let me add 2 points:

- The scenario I describe is one where I forward an email that 's already part of an existing Gmail conversation. The "remember in x time" phrase is not in the subject line, but in the body.
If the "remember in x time" phrase is in the subject line, there's no problem, if the "remember in x time" phrase is in the body, it _really_ would be handy if Sandy did _not_ change the subject line.

- The idea of having edit the template for the subject must have come from a nerd's mind (yeah that's me). The behaviour should be implicit. By limiting it to forwarded conversations as I described above, and possibly by limiting it to Gmail clients (although other clients have the ability to use threaded conversations). It should not be more complex than a checkbox "keep subject line intact" or something along the same lines.

pascalvanhecke shared an idea in I want Sandy on January 09, 2008 22:13:

Sandy changes the subject of an email so that it breaks a Gmail conversation - can I customize mail subject template?

As you probably know Gmail groups emails into conversations based on subject.

An email I get, is often a To-Do item. I want my inbox clean and postpone the action to a later date/time by forwarding it to Sandy and saying: "remind me in" the email body. (so that I can archive the conversation and concentrate on the stuff that is in my inbox and needs immediate action)

However, in the reminder Sandy adds "[reminder]" to the subject line and adds the reminder time. This breaks the conversation. Can I switch off this added information so that the email shows up in my inbox again _together with_ the rest of the conversation that has the information I need for the action?