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Richard Barley asked a question in Seesmic on October 07, 2008 15:39:

Integrate Cligs URL shortening service

Cligs URL shortening srevice is great and the stats they offer are really helpful. How about adding them? Or at least allow user-definable services?

Richard Barley replied on October 06, 2008 07:50 to the discussion "What would you like to see in Feedalizr?" in SWAT:

Just a thought but wouldn't it be better to log each "feature request" in a separate item rather than in a big long conversation like this? Makes it a lot easier to see what ideas are being accepted and which are not...

Richard Barley asked a question in SWAT on October 02, 2008 09:57:

Move the tab scroll buttons to the left or make Home tab sticky

Move the tab scroll buttons to the left or make Home tab sticky. It can be difficult to get back to the Home tab due to the resizing of the other tabs pushing it off the tab bar.
Hard to explain but I have a screencast demonstrating it here:
http://screencast.com/t/o43A1xwIjeM
So either move the scroll arrows to the left, hence the home tab will be next to them, or make the Home tab sticky so it cant get pushed out of the way.

Richard Barley asked a question in SWAT on October 02, 2008 09:43:

Remove "...posted a new xxxx entry..." from alert window

Can you remove the "...posted a new xxxx entry..." text from the pop-up alerts? You already show the service icon and it takes up too much space in the box. Just say "Fred Bloggs...1 min ago" followed by the message

Richard Barley replied on October 02, 2008 09:25 to the discussion "What would you like to see in Feedalizr?" in SWAT:

How about:
- Make @name entries into links to peoples profile, as most other clients do
- Include URL shortening options when posting
- include "Replies to you" "DMs to you" in the filter list

Richard Barley started following the idea "at-a-glance new-tweet indicator (Windows system tray)" in Seesmic.

A comment on the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

Yep, agreed. It needs to be opt-in.
Any startup in this arena should be well aware of these kind of concerns and not even consider doing stuff like that. It shows a lack of understanding on their part I think, which is disappointing – Richard Barley, on September 25, 2008 15:11

Richard Barley replied on September 25, 2008 15:07 to the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

Yep, all credit to them for responding quickly, although my question is whatever made them think it was a good idea in the first place (http://twitter.com/richard_barley/sta...). But there you go, I guess I just get a bit agitated by htings like this.

A comment on the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

LOL. Oops! – Richard Barley, on September 25, 2008 14:51

Richard Barley replied on September 25, 2008 14:50 to the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

Contacted them to terminate my account. Got email soon after from the lead PM saying "Apologies, we are sorry for the inconvenience, and we will terminate your account immediately."
I wonder how many more he's going to have to send like that? Perhaps a message in tihs thread might head it off at the pass...

Richard Barley replied on September 25, 2008 13:54 to the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

Sadly we just don't know and that's the worry isn't it?

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Richard Barley replied on September 25, 2008 13:43 to the problem "Automatically posting to twitter - bad." in My Name is E:

Yep, add me to the list of pissed off people here. Damage is done already, but I'll not be using this service any more. If you can;t get this simple thing right, it doesn't bode well for the future.

Richard Barley replied on August 07, 2008 13:26 to the idea "I want to see the real URL before clicking a tinyURL" in Seesmic:

Yes please - for folks at work its great to know what is behind the innocent-looking link before clicking it :)

Richard Barley started following the idea "I want to see the real URL before clicking a tinyURL" in Seesmic.

Richard Barley started following the question "Twhirl and the scroll wheel: why so fast?" in Seesmic.

Richard Barley replied on August 07, 2008 13:24 to the question "Twhirl and the scroll wheel: why so fast?" in Seesmic:

Yes, that annoys me. it skips down 3 entries at a time - would be great if we could either customise this numkber, or take it down to 1. I often miss messages coz I've scrolled past them too quick.

Richard Barley started following the problem "Twhirl showing old DMs and @replies at startup" in Seesmic.

Richard Barley started following the problem "Unable to follow Twitter friends using Twhirl client" in Seesmic.

A comment on the discussion "What kinds of tweet formats would you like to see?" in blippr:

Great, thats good news Chris – Richard Barley, on July 30, 2008 09:46