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A comment on the question "What are the 5 features/changes you'd most like to see on LinkedIn? Why?" in LinkedIn:

Hey NancyB, cheers for that! I just requested to be the beta user :-) – paulidownunder, on August 10, 2008 04:38

paulidownunder replied on August 10, 2008 01:52 to the problem "Twitter allows illegal activities by one of there subscribers!" in Twitter:

Hey i wonder if this is potentially a 'feature request'...

Could twitter allows users to report 'scam/spam' on potential users?

Could be something as simple as a vote button to say this is scam/spam? This would be similar to how you would comment on youtube.com.

cheers,

~paul

paulidownunder replied on August 10, 2008 01:48 to the question "What are the 5 features/changes you'd most like to see on LinkedIn? Why?" in LinkedIn:

I just have one small feature request:

Can you synchronise the status updates on one of the following: twitter or facebook or pluxo?

I already have my accounts on those synched. So twitter updates feed facebook and pluxo, would be nice if I have linkedin synched as well. I imagine this is not very difficult...

thanks,

Paul

paulidownunder marked one of Neil Fraser's replies in Google as useful. Neil Fraser replied to the question "Where does my gmail go???".

philcrissman's reply to "What do you expect from Oracle on Web 2.0?" was just promoted to the most useful! paulidownunder and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I think the trouble is, the average user of enterprise software has not chosen to use it; his or her CIO chose it, and now the user's stuck with it. ;-)

APIs. Let the users, the internal IT departments, etc, have access to the data that is in the systems. They should be able to *easily* write their own extensions, modules -- basically, enterprise mashups.

Something like these may already exist, but I've been thinking that the only way for Enterprise apps to mirror the success that consumer web 2.0 apps have had is to emulate the openness of the APIs, open up the data, so to speak.

paulidownunder marked one of Lesley's replies in Brightkite as useful. Lesley replied to the question "mobiles updates outside us".

paulidownunder reported a problem in Metro Real Estate on June 28, 2008 03:30:

Real Estate management by headless staff

I had a property under their management, and their staff have never provided timely services, they never provided updates to me for the progress to the leasing of my property, and always leave everything to the very last minute.

This is not the company you want to deal with, as they are unprofessional, unresponsive and never answer their phone calls. Their internal accounting is a mess, which makes it very difficult for me to track the payments made into my account, as the deposit details keeps changing. When the exclusive leasing management period comes to an end, I was given less than a week to decide to continue on or not. Keeping in mind the previous arrangement is for 12 month, this kind of notice period is woeful.

Even though part of their service covers selling and leasing of properties, they heavily rely on partnership with other real estate companies to leverage their services, as they do not have that expertise internally. And the communications between such partnerships are handled poorly.

paulidownunder replied on June 22, 2008 05:07 to the question "Twitter Flash Badge Not Working" in Twitter:

I had similar issues with mine on my blog, in fact mine was quite interesting, as the flash widget was displaying someone else's tweets!

I removed it, and reinserted the simplest widget, and it's all working fine now.

You can check it here http://tinyurl.com/5heufr

Good luck to all the other tweeters

paulidownunder asked a question in Brightkite on June 22, 2008 04:45:

mobiles updates outside us

hi I am not located in the US, just wondering when you will be adding support for the mobile updates outside US?

paulidownunder started a conversation in Google on June 19, 2008 13:42:

Android phone when?

How close are you to releasing a mobile phone running the Android?

It's a great idea, something that Palm is still not able to do yet... Given your business model, I hope you don't tie us down with specific hardware like Apple does, but forge alliances with phone makers instead.

Hope to hear from you soon!

paulidownunder replied on June 19, 2008 13:34 to the question "What do you expect from Oracle on Web 2.0?" in Oracle:

Keep the best of BEA, I think its BPM capabilities are stronger than Oracle's, so make sure it integrates well, and don't the good people of BEA SOA team go...

paulidownunder asked a question in Twitter on June 19, 2008 13:26:

auto-shorten urls?

twitter used to automatically shorten urls I posted, but that seems to have stopped working lately... what happened? I know I could get around this by using twirl, but it was a really nice feature!

paulidownunder replied on June 19, 2008 10:50 to the problem "How can I stop duplicating contacts with my Treo 650? It seems to add a contact every time a get a call. I use it with Outlook." in Palm:

try Missing Sync, I find it a lot better than the Palm's sync software, and you will then be able to 'merge' the contacts

paulidownunder reported a problem in Palm on June 19, 2008 10:49:

call duration no more...

bring back the call durations for call logs please, I am not happy that you removed it for Treo 680 :-(