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w7 shared an idea in Spotify on April 06, 2009 09:51:

Please consider supporting Instant Playlists

I'd love to see an option to flag a track or an album for replay later. I'd call this an instant playlist maybe - while browsing the collection, I come across a track or album, flag it in some suitable way, and can then (later) browse and play the list of all flagged items.

(Debatable whether the flag should auto-clear or persist after the track has played.)

I find this would be a great usability improvement over the hassle of building explicit playlists, acting as reminders.

w7 reported a problem in Zemanta on March 12, 2009 08:12:

Can you please be consistent?

I like my web site to be consistent; that is, articles appear in a uniform format. I can manage that very well, except Zemanta changes the look of the "related articles" listing more than I would want.

One day, "Five fresh articles" appear. Then, I see two Five Fresh Articles links. Now I get none, but over the last two days or so, I got a nice thin group box around the related articles listing. I like the box, but now its gone again.

What am I missing (apart from consistency)?

w7 replied on February 13, 2009 17:43 to the idea "No incentive to upgrade to Premium" in Spotify:

I think the idea is to generate **lots** of revenue from advertising, not a little from subscriptions. Revenue generated from adverts is a function of the number of people listening to the adverts. This makes the advert-free subscription option just a bail-out to make those stay who despise the ads and might otherwise go away.
I doubt the subscription service is in spotify's own primary interest.

w7 replied on February 13, 2009 15:26 to the question "Spotify and DNLA?" in Spotify:

I support the UPnP request. Better than having Spotify streaming locally over UPnP would be the ability to plug-in with an existing media server system (twonky, WMP, etc).

w7 reported a problem in Zemanta on February 02, 2009 10:59:

WLW 14 no longer able to insert "related articles"

The WLW14 Zemanta plug-in used to work just fine, but something changed over the last two weeks or so (I was away and didn't use the tool much). I can still insert links and what-nots, but the related articles can no longer be inserted.
This continues to work great in the Wordpress plug-in, but the WlW14 plug-in appears broken in this regard.
Is anyone seeing the same?

w7 replied on January 09, 2009 15:44 to the problem "Wordpress plug-in fails to load for page editing" in Zemanta:

Sure: Larger screenshot in your in-box. Give me a minute.

w7 reported a problem in Zemanta on January 08, 2009 12:43:

Wordpress plug-in fails to load for page editing

Wordpress plug-in loads fine on Edit Post page, but not on the Edit Page page. At the bottom of the page, it just says "Zemanta loading..."

Doesn't bother me, but would be nicer if if could work (or, second choice, not show on the page editor).

w7 replied on January 07, 2009 15:07 to the question "New version of Windows Live Writer doesn't like plug-in" in Zemanta:

Also using WLW 14 here, no problem.

w7 shared an idea in Zemanta on January 07, 2009 09:30:

Can I customize the "Related articles by Zemanta" headline?

I am OK inserting such a headline, and I am fine that it should include the word Zemanta. In fact, I'd even prefer it if Zemanta was a hyperlink to your home page. I'd also like to rephrase it, so that it better matches the stype of my blog (or maybe even language).

Examples:

Zemanta suggested the following articles:
Related articles, supplied by Zemanta:
Further reading, suggested by Zemanta:
Zemanta recommends:

Of course, this would be the icing on the cake, and is in no way essential. I realize that I can edit the headline, once inserted. A one-time adjustment would be nicer though. Just in case you haven't got anything else to do.

w7 replied on January 07, 2009 06:17 to the idea "Show Image Size in Preview Window" in Zemanta:

I also find Jure's dismissal a bit quick. Not only for loading speed, but also for aesthetic reasons, I use only images of certain size, both in terms of width as well as file size.
The "take whatever we give you or take nothing" approach is unsatisfying. I also suggested improved control over image size, orientation and aspect control.

w7 replied on January 06, 2009 21:57 to the question "Where is the entry for my Flickr-username?" in Zemanta:

Log in (or register) with zemanta and you shall see the control to enter your Flickr! username. See top right corner of the preferences screen.

w7 replied on January 06, 2009 18:17 to the idea "Narrow down suggestions through by-group properties" in Zemanta:

Andraz, the filter is OK as far as I can tell. Thanks for the pointer.
Jure, I only mentioned adult content as an example. I didn't get any.

w7 shared an idea in Zemanta on January 06, 2009 15:10:

Narrow down suggestions through by-group properties

It would be really nice if one could narrow down Zemanta suggestions on a per-group basis. Maybe the API does this already, but the WLW and Wordpress plug-ins don't.

Oh, here's what I mean:

a) for pictures, I'd like to limit the results to portrait or landscape format (or allow any aspect ratio as the third option, of course), Min/max image image size could also be helpful.

b) for links to related articles, I'd like to specify an optional list of keywords (must match the target article), a list of excluded keywords (articles referencing these won't show), and a list of domain exclusions (don't show anything matching *.gov/*, for example) and requirements (only show stuff from *.edu/*).

c) for links, a domain exclusion list could also be helpful. Adult ranking (don't show links pointing to adult content) and some-such would also be helpful.

d) for tags... I have no particular request for refining tag selection.

w7 shared an idea in Zemanta on January 05, 2009 07:52:

Option to enable/disable suggestion groups

It would be great if the preferences would allow to disable (enable) entire suggestion groups. For example, I am always interested in tags, links, and related articles, but am never interested in images.

Being able to disable the image suggestions, for example, would make my interface neater and (presumably) ease burden on Zemanta.

As a global account preference, this would affect all clients (such as the WLW or the Wordpress plug-ins).

w7 started following the idea "Sugesting related articles from your own blog." in Zemanta.