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ancho replied on October 07, 2008 18:29 to the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

There's no reason to have to poll FE for every user - you can use the /recent API call to find recent updates. It's still a little stupid because it doesn't block until something interesting happens, and it's limited in how many results it will return - but it's better than a complete poll!

Grant Goodale replied on September 02, 2008 23:54 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Version 1.1 of the iPhone app is out and includes editing. Enjoy, and keep the feature requests coming!

Sadow83 replied on August 27, 2008 00:56 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Agreed, this would be a great feature.

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Thanks for the update Lesley. Looking forward to the announcement! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 22, 2008 11:23

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Balaji, we are definitely considering users like yourself in regards to this feature. We will make sure that you are able to pull this data across all of the interfaces and not just using SMS or mobile email. :) – Lesley, on August 21, 2008 22:05

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Request for Brightkite developers - please consider other options for your international users as well.

For example, sending @FE via text or mobile email might seem like a good answer for your US users. But living in Asia, neither of those really works on a long term basis.

I understand that it's difficult for you to poll FE and am willing to put up with the hassle of having to update BK separately to pick up FE data. But please give us an option via the mobile site as well! – Balaji Dutt M V, on August 21, 2008 02:53

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

I like the @FE idea. Until Fire eagle supports pushing. – jiltedcitizen, on August 18, 2008 14:18

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Jeevs, you totally nailed it...that is the challenge. – Martin May, on August 15, 2008 03:24

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

As I understand it, the reason Pownce has no difficulty integrating with FireEagle despite their size is because it only ever needs to know where you are when you post something. So a user action prompts the pull from FE; this is more scalable because it does not have to be happening all the time, only once in a while when you post something.

This is equivalent, in terms of practicality, to the suggestion that BrightKite should prompt the you, when checking in, to just pull from FE (also like @FE mentioned earlier).
I think this is very sensible and, from the sounds of it, feasible.

Some people might want BK to check you in automatically whenever your FE is updated (from Plazes or any other service that pushes your location to FE). This is nice because it means you will only need to check in with one service and all your FE-capable services (e.g BK, Plazes or Pownce) will be updated instantly and automatically.
This is very difficult; because it demands that BK constantly lookup the location of all of its users through FE to make sure they haven't gone from their last check in point.

I think, until FE itself supports pushing relevant data to BK (i.e when a BK user's FE location is updated, FE should let BK know to pull the new geodata), the @FE user-prompted pull is a clever and effective compromise. – jeevs sinclair, on August 14, 2008 09:35

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Hi Andy, we are working on 2-way FireEagle integration. With Pownce it is slightly less complicated than what we have to deal with. – Lesley, on August 12, 2008 22:21

A comment on the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

How is Pownce doing it then? – Andy Mesa, on August 12, 2008 21:25

Andy Mesa replied on August 12, 2008 21:23 to the idea "fireeagle integration" in Brightkite:

Pownce now has two-way FireEagle communication, and they don't purport to be "the location based social network". Aren't they equally as big? Would they not then have the same problem?

Rukus replied on August 01, 2008 19:07 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Hi, The original post expresses exactly what I was thinking for the most important features that are missing, so +1 for those :)

Deb replied on August 01, 2008 16:24 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Thanks for the input, odelay. We are working on the editing update. Integration with the iPhone calendar is on the list of future features, but is waiting on a change from Apple to the SDK. Thanks for continuing to let us know what you need. We appreciate the feedback.

odelay replied on August 01, 2008 05:57 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

The new update adds the ability to delete items, but still no edit functionality? I would have thought editing should be higher priority, as deleting (at least for me) doesn't seem essential. If I want to delete an item, I can just mark it as complete.

Any news on when editing update will be available? As this is the only thing stopping me from using this app on a daily basis.

Also, any plans to integrate with the iPhone/MobileMe calendars, i.e. so I get a calendar alert when an item is due?

Deb replied on July 31, 2008 03:12 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Thanks for the comments, Brian! We're working on the delete capability. BTW, we'd love to hear your comedy!

Brian B! replied on July 31, 2008 01:13 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

WOW... I can't believe I've been living without this app.

This is the most important application I am using!!

I am a comedy writer and need to capture all of my ideas as soon as they come to mind (in case they finally turn out to be funny). The only improvement that I HIGHLY recommend is the ability to delete messages in the "Notes" section from the iPhone app. The items on the To-Do list are easily checked off, but the notes stay there unless I log on to the web site and delete them from there.

Please add this feature!

I love you!

A comment on the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

Yes, I want to be able to cut and paste items in my calendar as well. I hope you are working on this, too. Thanks. – Robin, on July 31, 2008 00:51

Steve replied on July 24, 2008 20:27 to the idea "Add editing on iPhone, please." in reQall:

+1 for me

Steve replied on July 24, 2008 20:27 to the idea "Idea: Repeating Items" in reQall:

+1 for me too