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livejamie replied on August 17, 2008 08:55 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

While I'd like to be able to choose the word myself, "says" "tweets" "mumbles" etc. this is a step in the right direction.

I don't think being able to set our own word would be difficult, would it?

Kelly Atkinson replied on August 17, 2008 08:28 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

This has been fixed! Thank you, Ping.fm folks, for adding the "adjust grammar" option. Now my Facebook updates are prefaced with "Kelly said:". Just perfect! Thank you for listening and doing something about this.

A comment on the problem "Invalid Amperstands in URLs Cause Failure of XHTML Validity tests!" in Intense Debate:

yes the problem is still there. – aliencam, on August 16, 2008 17:50

A comment on the problem "Invalid Amperstands in URLs Cause Failure of XHTML Validity tests!" in Intense Debate:

Wanna get in on the beta? Please email me at support@intensedebate.com. Getting back on topic though, does this problem persist? Please let me know. Thanks. – Michael Koenig, on August 16, 2008 16:34

A comment on the problem "Invalid Amperstands in URLs Cause Failure of XHTML Validity tests!" in Intense Debate:

I apologize for the frustration. Please email me at support@intensedebate.com and reference this case. Thanks – Michael Koenig, on August 16, 2008 16:33

aliencam replied on August 15, 2008 06:46 to the problem "Invalid Amperstands in URLs Cause Failure of XHTML Validity tests!" in Intense Debate:

wow someone else cares? wahoo!

and I did find another blog that this issue occurs on, it was the blog linked to in the "New Private Beta Opening Aug 24!" post, http://www.viewfromafarley.com/

Validation page: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

that blog uses the Wordpress IntenseDebate plugin with the comments on the front page, and "posttitle" is after an "&".

this link documents the solution: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validat...

I am excited to see all the secret new features in the new WP IntenseDebate Plugin. I can't really think of anything that could be done better (except maybe XHTML validation lol). but all that is an unrelated topic.

rajr19 replied on August 15, 2008 02:42 to the problem "Invalid Amperstands in URLs Cause Failure of XHTML Validity tests!" in Intense Debate:

eek I hate this! 100+ errors aahhhhh!

please devise a solution. i believe in you :P

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Kelly Atkinson replied on July 24, 2008 05:02 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

I'm with mattindy77. I've used TwitterSync for ages, and I've been very happy with its settings which allow me to change my prepend verb. (I like " twitters: ") Until more robust settings are included in Ping.fm for all services, AND until Facebook gets it together and creates this setting for status updates, can't this idea please be integrated into the current Ping.fm Facebook app?

I signed up to Ping.fm today because I love the idea, and because TwitterSync depends on TwitterIM which has been broken for more than a month. But...if this kind of checkbox-setting-customization idea can't be implemented here, I will go back to the standard Twitter Facebook app (though I'll be very sad).

Hedsaw replied on June 25, 2008 06:01 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

Well, its not ping.fm's problem at all, as if you were to write that same mesage in facebook you'd get the same result. if there was a "says" prefix then you wrote an action as a ping you'd get:

Suchnsuch says "is doing his homework"

Solution: is to have either in the edit section of each network a prefix option

BEST SOLUTION:

a verb detector to prefix 'is' or 'has' and if "not" is 1st word prefix 'is' or 'was'

all other words i guess you could add ' says "' or a predetermined default prefix and a suffix of a quotation mark

EDIT:
Maybe even an advanced verb/sentence detector say you typed "been to the park" been is detected as a past action prefixing "has" present actions will be "is" future actions "will"?

as for when to prefix says... put quotation marks at start and end?

seems most logical to me.

wilfred replied on June 25, 2008 04:54 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

Would love to see ping.fm allowing individual control of the string for each service. Example would be I can control a string to be appended before and after all my facebook pings.

If i was to ping "I am hungry" ... my ping post to facebook would be Wilfred "says : I am hungry".

Sean replied on June 16, 2008 19:44 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

@TimS That seems like the most logical approach.

mattindy77 replied on June 16, 2008 14:54 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

I would look at how TwitterSync handles this. They let you control the string yourself.

A comment on the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

Sounds good, since this bug has been stopping me using ping.fm to post to twitter (I use the "Statuses" selection to post to plurk & facebook - But I want to post to places like twitter and tumblr with "Micro-Blogs"). Please hurry! – Cameron Moon, on June 16, 2008 01:45

A comment on the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

I await this eagerly. Right now I'm using triggers to get around it, but... – R. Francis Smith, on June 15, 2008 05:49

A comment on the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

Thanks, Sean! This has been driving me crazy ever since I realized what was happening! How long do you think it'll be before this option will be available? – [jo]ann, on June 12, 2008 04:12

A comment on the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

Love to see the settings available for Facebook. It's an odd inconsistency of features. – pb30, on June 12, 2008 02:06

rajr19 replied on June 12, 2008 02:04 to the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

thanks so much sean.

Sean replied on June 12, 2008 01:59 to the question "Facebook: Status or Microblog?" in Ping.fm:

@raj, I'm the same way. I hate how we have to consider it a microblog. When we switched some stuff around a month ago, people were livid because of the "not a microblog" issue, so we had to make everyone happy.

i'm working on a settings page so you can alter how Facebook is considered.

rajr19 replied on June 12, 2008 01:31 to the problem "Facebook doesn't look right." in Ping.fm:

neat-o. for now, my solution is to remove facebook from ping.fm