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A comment on the idea "Don't Leave Mom Out!" in TotSpot:

I agree, I was trying to find the place where my wife could signup to update the kids info and nada. This should be your #1 priority to add, otherwise I won't be able to use this site much. Please add it! – koguma, on September 07, 2008 02:43

Michael Broukhim replied on August 29, 2008 00:25 to the problem "Middle name should not be mandatory" in TotSpot:

You're right; it should not be, and is not on initial registration...this is a bug, and we will address it asap.

Tim replied on August 22, 2008 22:48 to the discussion "Google Video Support PLEASE--for Privacy Reasons!" in TotSpot:

Is there a vimeo or youtube user associated with API access that I could add as a contact? Are you using the simple or advanced Vimeo API?

Ninja replied on August 22, 2008 21:58 to the problem "Incorrect date when adding "firsts"" in TotSpot:

I'm having the same issue when I'm logged in to our baby's profile. I just added a First and in the Timeline section, it's shown a day earlier. And if I click on the specific First, it takes me to a page where the date is still incorrect.

Similar issue when I'm logged in as "Dad" and check out the baby's profile only if I click on the specific First, it takes me to a page where the date is actually correct! But it's still incorrect under Timeline. I can't change the timezone on this account, only on the baby's (and it's correct there)...

A comment on the idea "Please allow more information or a story to be included for each "First"" in TotSpot:

My wife said she'd like to be able to add custom firsts as well. She's just putting them in the journal entries for now. – Nathan, on August 22, 2008 16:57

A comment on the discussion "Google Video Support PLEASE--for Privacy Reasons!" in TotSpot:

Do you have a timeline on when native video will be available? – Ninja, on August 22, 2008 01:55

Ninja replied on August 22, 2008 01:53 to the idea "Ways to share - Totspot Facebook app, or email generator?" in TotSpot:

Great idea. The only reason I'm hesitant to start using TotSpot is because I'm afraid the majority of our friends won't take the time to sign up for accounts. But if they can access TotSpot through Facebook, they'd be all over it (and more likely to use TotSpot themselves, when the time comes).

Michael Broukhim replied on August 16, 2008 03:18 to the idea "RSS Feeds for Child's Page Updates" in TotSpot:

RSS Feeds for your 'Activity Feed' are now available...we will be working on RSS for child profiles next...!

tmacedo replied on August 12, 2008 13:24 to the problem "Broken Photo Thumbnails on Photo Page" in TotSpot:

Hi,

I'm unable to reproduce this. Lately S3 has been having some hiccups so perhaps that caused the issue.

We've made some changes to our importer that should go into production soon and should help with this issue.

Nathan replied on August 06, 2008 14:37 to the problem "Broken Photo Thumbnails on Photo Page" in TotSpot:

I've found that importing 2 images at a time from Flickr will work (not have broken thumbnails). If I try to import any more than that at a time, it will produce the "Access Denied" error listed above.

I've found my workaround for the problem was to delete any imported photos, and re-import them, 2 at a time. This has worked well thus far.

A comment on the idea "Don't Leave Mom Out!" in TotSpot:

werker - This definitely did come up in our user research but we thought the workaround - login as the child's username (as Nathan pointed out) was sufficient. It is definitely not and so tackling this is certainly a high priority. As you noted - not so simple to figure out exactly, but we'll find a way. – Adam Katz, on August 05, 2008 05:38

Adam Katz replied on August 05, 2008 05:33 to the idea "Upload photos via email" in TotSpot:

Almost certainly challenging, definitely something we should work on (gotta figure out where to slot this in the roadmap...)

A comment on the idea "RSS Feeds for Child's Page Updates" in TotSpot:

It's an API complete with security & privacy measures. Users will get to decide with whom they want to share their data. We've had tons of requests for different types of slideshows, widgets, social media applications, desktop applications, etc., and we thought the best way to accommodate these ideas was to give developers the ability to build on top of the TotSpot platform! – Michael Broukhim, on August 04, 2008 17:20

werker replied on August 04, 2008 01:40 to the idea "RSS Feeds for Child's Page Updates" in TotSpot:

Your making an open source API? Really? When will it be available? I would think that security issues would keep you guys from doing that. Your not setting yourselves up for a Facebook acquisition are you? :)

A comment on the idea "Don't Leave Mom Out!" in TotSpot:

Adam, I am a little shocked that you guys didn't turn this up in user research before you launched the site? This was the first feature I looked for when I signed up tonight. I also thought that was a sparkline you had on the page, but it appears to just be an icon that looks like a sparkline. But back to the topic...

Yes, both places and I would go out of my way to explain it. I wouldn't classify it as "One time use" like a setup wizard but more of an infrequent use. The whole divorce and custody thing gets tricky with the multiple admin thing though. Tough feature to figure out, but a fun challenge! – werker, on August 04, 2008 01:37

Nathan replied on August 03, 2008 01:01 to the problem "Broken Photo Thumbnails on Photo Page" in TotSpot:

Here's the link to one of the broken thumbnail images, with the associated XML error:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectbprod/...

<error>
AccessDenied
<message>Access Denied</message>
<requestid>456F674317F0A965</requestid>
−
<hostid>
0OT1rBypltYT+Ln4J7xIV+ijZgLUr25UA/HMv5ISbe1AK5ahRoWv60tjPFt2P6qG
</hostid>
</error>

Perhaps it's an Amazon S3 problem?

Michael Broukhim replied on August 02, 2008 18:09 to the problem "Broken Photo Thumbnails on Photo Page" in TotSpot:

Thanks for sending this our way Nathan...we're looking into this...and congrats again!!

Michael Broukhim replied on August 02, 2008 18:08 to the idea "Upload photos via email" in TotSpot:

Thanks for the idea -- we are definitely looking for ways to make it easier to bring content into TotSpot -- email & mobile are two of our priorities :)

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Michael Broukhim replied on July 30, 2008 15:33 to the idea "Organizing my friends" in TotSpot:

Thanks for the suggestion Valerie...organizing friends is a neat idea -- we've gotten plenty of requests at the very least to be able to distinguish family members in a certain way (including parents)...we are thinking through the best implementation for this...definitely see the need to be as expressive as possible on your TotSpot page...