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  • problem

    webbiegrrl reported a problem in Brightkite on July 21, 2008 12:53:

    webbiegrrl
    Cricket phone support?
    It would appear that the pay-as-you-go service called Cricket Phone is not fully-supported. I can send pictures and text via email to my personalized user@bkite.com address, no problem, but I cannot do the "registration" of my phone with your web site so I can't TXT the 80289 number with a msg.

    Although I know you cannot list every single fly-by-night service that comes out, perhaps you could list which pay-as-you go phones work and which do not, just as you note that Verizonwireless (contract accounts) don't work with bkite. A page of "phone services supported" linked from the Mobile tab / page would be nice.

    Thanks!

    Webbiegrrl
  • idea

    webbiegrrl replied on July 21, 2008 11:59 to the idea "Public/Private toggle" in Brightkite:

    webbiegrrl
    I'd still like to be able to TOGGLE the privacy settings after I've done a checkin and realize the settings were wrong. I'd also like it if after the privacy settings are toggled (assuming the toggle is private to public not vice a versa) then either

    (1) I'm asked if I'd like to propagate the checkin through to twitter; or
    (2) the now-public check in is automatically propagated through to twitter for me

    I guess for (2) you'd have to have some kind of "if this checkin occurred within the last xxx minutes of the privacy setting toggle" condition or else you'd always be sending my last checkin through.

    I do a lot more checkins by phone than by email and I definitely forget how to toggle privacy via phone.

    The absolute ideal for me would be to combine this toggle on demand with the ability to set the privacy settings on check in done by SMS / mobile by simply adding something to the subject or body of the message (IOW, add a var which if missing just leaves the settings as is or if present, changes the settings to whatever value - "public" or "private" - is sent -- and *DO* KISS :) and let users type the word "public" or "private" for specifying the setting.

    Forex, sending the message:

    To: abc123@bkite.com (user's personalized bkite address)
    Subject: public, my message goes here and will get posted to twitter cause I remembered to change the setting first

    versus

    To: abc123@bkite.com (user's personalized bkite address)
    Subject: private, since I'm in a secret meeting I don't want anyone to know where I am

    and of course the necessary default situation:

    To: abc123@bkite.com (we know this right?)
    Subject: having fun in all the wrong spaces

    << with no "public" or "private" setting specified, so your processing script will need to have an "if NULL" type of situation.

    Thanks! :-)

    Webbiegrrl
    still dissatisfied with privacy toggles and wisting for the perfect world but really loving the special snowflake that is bkite :)
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  • problem

    webbiegrrl replied on April 06, 2008 00:34 to the problem "Why doesn't the flash badge work in IE?" in Twitter:

    webbiegrrl
    I'm just trying to embed the Flash badge (with friends_timeline) on my LiveJournal and it REALLY doesn't want to embed. I keep getting the error message "invalid video URL" on my LJ but back on the twitter.com/badges page, the badge was displaying fine. All I did was copy/paste it into a sidebar custom box like I've done iwth other sidebar custom stuff.... will the badge EVER work?
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