Todd Jones's dashboard

The hack didn't work for me. Has it been taken down?

:-( – Happibun, on September 07, 2008 20:51

RE: Suezanne Baskerville's comment.
Honestly, why not just go to yahoo mail? I know it's slower at times but what's worse, losing emails entirely or having a couple of ads on the page? If it's that important, you could probably just pay the $20/yr to dump the ads?

What are the free alternatives to Gmail that don't have hideous moving ads and massive spam and a terrible spam filter like for example Yahoo mail does?

I personally don't have a problem with it. However, I think they should listen others do.

GMail is a great service and has made my life a whole lot easier. But as a developer myself i must say that not having the ability to unthread is a big hassle. Especially for my bug reports, which customers always label the same...
Also gmail easily thinks of unrelated mails with similar titles as one conversation, when in fact its more... This is a big problem.

Thanks you !

Hi Todd,

It is possible you are in great shape with your accounts and we can't find anything better for you. Another possibility is that we are not getting the correct interest rate on your current accounts. You used to be able to edit this information by using the account page, but it seems to be missing at present. We are looking into this right now. You can however still view the interest rate by going to the transactions page, selecting the account you want, and looking near the top right of the page.



Thanks,
Jason

Although I can see how this new system works for many, it still doesn't work for me or anyone dealing with a mixed-use development with one street address. In my case I live in a large building with retail and restaurants on the ground level. I'd like to be able to check in publicly to a restaurant or gallery but not my actual residence. If we had actual private placemarks, this would work fine. Unfortunately, the setting of one (my residence) overrides another (a store) because we share the same address. I really hope this will be resolved in the future. This would seem a potential hassle for many folks. Thanks for taking the concept this far.

I would still really, really love to be able to toggle the Twitter feed easily *without* having to go into private mode. I don't actually care whether anyone knows where I live; I just don't want it pushed to Twitter every time I return home and dutifully check in. I also may go somewhere like a grocery store where I'd like to check in publicly but don't think the Twitterverse would care. In a perfect BK world, activity at certain placemarks could also be designated as being fed (or not) to Twitter (and perhaps future services), independent of privacy settings.

Is this a problem with google's access granting?

I've tried using gmail. It's faster than yahoo and has some great features. I love a lot about google in general ie. gmaps etc.. I retried it again starting a month ago. I just missed yet another email in "pile" in the inbox.

But it's waaaaayyy to easy to miss an email visually. The bottom line is that all of the arguments for gmail or any of it's features don't mean very much when you've missed the original email due to threading feature.

I understand why or how a company could develop something like gmail and not foresee how a feature would affect people. What's annoying is how many people hate this feature (there are reams of complaints on the net) and gmail continues to ignore it.

I don't know about anyone else but many, maybe most of my emails, consist of a message and a reply or two. I certainly don't want every conversation with someone "linked"!

I've used Yahoo mail for years. It's not perfect and isn't as "techy" as gmail. On the other hand, it works just fine w/o installing IMAP or anything else.....

Why fight it?

where I have been on the map and where I am checked in at now would be a good start.

I know zimbra does, but most companies set zimbra up internally. Not sure if there are any public emails that use it – Todd Jones, on September 03, 2008 19:07

Yes i click the grant access button on the google auth page.
I have 24 people in my contacts
edit: username is toddj

also could you give me your zenbe username?

Thank you

Thanks Todd,

So you received this screen after you went through the google authorization screen? Approximately how many contacts would you say you have in Gmail?

-Will

Thank you, Will
All I can do is give a screen shot, its not a very clear error message.

I'm currently using firefox 3 on windows xp sp3
I've had the same problem on other browsers.

Hi Todd,

I'm the developer of the contact import feature for Zenbe. Can you give me any more details on the error message you are getting. A screenshot might be helpful as well.

Also could you provide the following:
the web browser and version you are using
the operating system and version you are using

Thank you,
Will

Do you know of something web based like Zenbe that uses IMAP?

Zenbe says IMAP support will arrive sometime.

I can't really tell when using it for my somewhat limited purposes what difference it would make for it to be using IMAP instead of pop.

Def want a customizable Tab outside of just a Boxes widget thingy. In mine, I would want a giant google map with all the places I've checked into! And perhaps a sidebar with the list of my recent checkins and posts.

Also, the newsfeed item should contain a link to the brightkite page for that location so that friends sitting next to me checking out my profile can check in within two clicks (or easily sign up!)

Naturally, pictures taken at a location should also show up in the long newsfeed setting. – Timothy Moenk, on September 03, 2008 03:29