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Tom Taylor replied on November 23, 2009 22:09 to the question "What did I do wrong with this picture?" in Noticings:

Thanks. I can't seem to find your photo in the Flickr API search results - is your account set to appear in public search results?

Tom Taylor replied on November 23, 2009 20:58 to the question "What did I do wrong with this picture?" in Noticings:

What a nightmare! And did you have all of the right details set before 3pm GMT today?

Tom Taylor replied on November 23, 2009 20:53 to the question "What did I do wrong with this picture?" in Noticings:

Interesting. So presumably Flickr detected the timestamp from the EXIF on upload, set it to the wrong time, and you adjusted afterwards?

Tom Taylor replied on November 23, 2009 20:44 to the question "What did I do wrong with this picture?" in Noticings:

This is strange, because the EXIF data on that photo says the timestamp is 2009:11:21 12:16:22, but Flickr reports the date taken as the same time on the 22nd. Did you make any adjustments?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlowell/...

Tom Taylor replied on November 22, 2009 17:48 to the problem "iPhone App not loading" in Noticings:

Just to update on this - Apple have agreed to escalate the fix, but I've not seen any movement yet.

Tom Taylor set one of Tom Taylor's replies as an official response to "Photos posted to Flickr from my HTC Dream are not showing up on noticings." in Noticings

Tom Taylor replied on November 22, 2009 17:41 to the problem "Photos posted to Flickr from my HTC Dream are not showing up on noticings." in Noticings:

I've got a feeling this is due to an idiosyncrasy in the Flickr API. I've switched our approach for fetching photos and hopefully this won't happen again. Thanks for letting us know - and shout if you notice anything else amiss.

Tom Taylor replied on November 21, 2009 23:45 to the problem "Photos posted to Flickr from my HTC Dream are not showing up on noticings." in Noticings:

It looks like that photo should have been imported, so I'm not sure what's happening here. Did it have the correct tag + geotag before 3pm GMT today?

Tom Taylor replied on November 21, 2009 15:26 to the question "Publicly visible definition please" in Noticings:

Sorry, that just means that photo must be visible to the public - referring to the privacy settings on Flickr. Must sort out the wording.

Tom Taylor replied on November 20, 2009 16:29 to the problem "Not finding my pics" in Noticings:

Hi Rob - We've learnt over the last couple of days that photos don't appear in search results until you've taken more than 5, which is what would be causing this. I'd suggest putting up a few 'dummy' shots, and then they should start getting picked up.

Sorry about this - we're building a tool to help people get started with Noticings more easily.

Tom Taylor replied on November 20, 2009 14:37 to the question "photo taking or uploading time?" in Noticings:

Yeah, that's right.

Tom Taylor replied on November 20, 2009 14:31 to the question "photo taking or uploading time?" in Noticings:

Hi Heidi,

It's the time taken that matters, but some of the iPhone uploaders like the Flickr app and a few others don't save the timestamp when they take or upload the photo. Thankfully, we just launched an iPhone app that does!

http://noticin.gs/iphone/

Tom Taylor set one of Tom Taylor's replies as an official response to "iPhone App not loading" in Noticings

Tom Taylor replied on November 20, 2009 10:43 to the problem "iPhone App not loading" in Noticings:

It turns out the problem is with videos - if you scroll past one it'll crash the app, or if there's one in the five most recent bits of media, then it'll crash on startup.

I've just shipped version 1.1 to the store which fixes this bug, but I have to wait for approval from Apple. I've emailed them to see if we can get it escalated, but it might take a few days to go through.

The workaround in the short term is to delete any recent videos.

Sorry about this, but hold on and it'll be sorted!

Tom Taylor replied on November 19, 2009 17:05 to the problem "I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong" in Noticings:

Hi Joe,

Can you give us a link to your Flickr profile?

Tom Taylor replied on November 19, 2009 17:04 to the idea "1 noticing per day?" in Noticings:

Just as Fiona says: there wasn't anything to say you shouldn't post up lots!

But it seems to be more fun when everyone is on the same playing field. If limiting the number of noticings doesn't work, we can have another think.

Tom Taylor replied on November 19, 2009 12:54 to the problem "iPhone App not loading" in Noticings:

Actually, can you do me a favour and try and dig out the crash reports? First, sync your phone. Then they should be in:

Mac OS X: ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/YOUR_DEVICE_NAME

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\YOUR_DEVICE_NAME

Windows Vista: C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\YOUR_DEVICE_NAME

I need the files called with 'Noticings_DATE.crash'

If you can email them to tom@tomtaylor.co.uk, that'd be great. Shout if you need any more help finding them.

Tom Taylor replied on November 19, 2009 12:43 to the problem "iPhone App not loading" in Noticings:

Hi Rob,

Sorry you're experiencing this - we'll try and sort it out. Do you have a large photo library on your phone? I've heard a separate report of it crashing with a 1GB+ library.

Tom Taylor replied on November 18, 2009 23:32 to the idea "1 noticing per day?" in Noticings:

We totally agree that it's not much fun when lots of people are noticing lots of things, especially when they push the boundaries of what a noticing is, just to do so. We're looking at ways of limiting the flow and increasing the quality - a per day limit is definitely an option.

Tom Taylor replied on November 18, 2009 13:53 to the question "Geo-tagged, public pictures not posting to noticings site" in Noticings:

Vern, it's difficult for me to diagnose the status of the photo at the time of import, so I can't say whether or not it should have been imported then. I can only suggest that you check that your photos are set to appear in public search results.

We're building a tool to help diagnose these issues for people, but as Noticings is a project run in our space time, it's difficult to do as much as we'd like.