I love this 'Get Satisfaction', its a really well implemented idea, which I have been pestering Ping.fm on as well.
Anywho, just some casual user ideas if I may.
First thing, when adding a custom feed, it would be neat to be able to also add a custom icon/favicon, so it blends in nicely with the 'official' supported services.
I ask this because I noticed that when I added 43 Things, your 'official version', none of the updates actually come across in the mash-up. If I add it myself as a custom service, using the feed address, then it works fine in the mash-up, just be nice to be able to add your own icons to them. I assume that the service you have set-up when you add it automatically is just not geared to pick up the personal feed address. It did take a me a few minutes to find it myself, but now I have added it as a custom feed, everything works well.
Another thought.
Also, in the services list of active servies, I sometime need to fiddle or amend a custom feed, but the only way to do this is to delete and start again. It would be nice if the links to the services were active and allowed you to make small edits to the information.: title, feed, general info, notes etc.
For me Profilactic is MY main depository for ALL my services, feeds or not. Here I add all my newly subscribed sites, which allows me to keep on track of them all. Some sort of note section, would be really very useful.
RE the first thing with 43. I notice that not all the official services, when you make an update do not includ any updates made directly in the mash-up, even though you seem to support them (Fuzz, Tolou and Wink are a few that seem to be sort of dormant). Just wondered why that was? For 43 it lists all the appropriate sections when you add it Profilactic, but nothing ever gets updated to them.:
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(I added FEED)
What I have done is to add a custom feed to the existing 'official service' and name it feed, and that works nicely.
Keep it up!!! Love it.
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