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David Singleton marked one of naveen's replies in foursquare as useful. naveen replied to the problem "API Bug: un-quoted phone numbers treated as octal".

David Singleton replied on October 14, 2009 15:30 to the problem "API Bug: un-quoted phone numbers treated as octal" in foursquare:

You guys are great. Thanks!

David Singleton replied on October 14, 2009 15:24 to the problem "API Bug: un-quoted phone numbers treated as octal" in foursquare:

Sweet.

Will this include non-authed access to read only services?

oAuthing for a service like venue info is more work than it needs to be - I know you get extra, personal, stats if you're authed, but a public/unauthed version would be equally useful.

I figure this would probably require changes to how the API handles auth in general, but it sounds like you're doing that at the moment...

Over at Last.fm we have a fairly good API model where all calls require an API key and reads don't require auth _but_ if you do auth against a read service it may provide extra auth-specific info.

David Singleton reported a problem in foursquare on October 14, 2009 14:48:

API Bug: un-quoted phone numbers treated as octal

Some venues have phone numbers that start with a 0, this is actually invalid JSON and quite a few parsers will choke on it if it's not quoted.

Example venue; http://foursquare.com/venue/145975

Could we switch to a string type for the API response? It'll avoid this problem, plus some non-numeric characters are probably valid in phone numbers.

David Singleton set one of David Singleton's replies as an official response to "Stop Banning my Accounts You've already banned 2" in Last.fm

David Singleton replied on August 18, 2009 13:56 to the problem "Stop Banning my Accounts You've already banned 2" in Last.fm:

If you violate our community policy repeatedly then not only will your current account be banned, but any future accounts you make as well.

David Singleton replied on August 18, 2009 13:44 to the problem "Facebook App Not Working" in Last.fm:

Marking as solved :)

David Singleton marked one of Jim Cavoli's replies in Last.fm as useful. Jim Cavoli replied to the problem "Facebook App Not Working".

David Singleton replied on August 18, 2009 13:44 to the problem "The "Paste your Taste" feature is gone." in Last.fm:

It's back, see this link for more details:

http://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/top...

David Singleton set one of James Wheare's replies as an official response to "Can I syndicate my own real-time listening data?" in Last.fm

David Singleton marked one of James Wheare's replies in Last.fm as useful. James Wheare replied to the question "Can I syndicate my own real-time listening data?". David Singleton and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

David Singleton marked one of lordtorpedo's replies in Last.fm as useful. lordtorpedo replied to the question "What needs for enable Last FM to work?". David Singleton and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

David Singleton marked one of Chris Gorvan's replies in Last.fm as useful. Chris Gorvan replied to the question "Give a subscription to last.fm as a gift". David Singleton and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

David Singleton replied on August 05, 2009 13:50 to the question "What happened to 'paste your taste'?" in Last.fm:

See http://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/top...

David Singleton set one of David Singleton's replies as an official response to "When will last.fm support Spotify?" in Last.fm

David Singleton replied on August 05, 2009 13:48 to the question "When will last.fm support Spotify?" in Last.fm:

As a couple of people have noted, Spotify now let's you scrobble. Check our their blog post about it, http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/...

For those interested the scrobbling protocol is completely open, any one can make their app scrobble if they want to. Most of the time the app creators are more than happy to do this themselves - or if it's open or has a plugin system then 3rd party developers can make it work too.

There are so many things that could scrobble, so we try and make as easy possible for people to do it themselves :)

A comment on the question "What happened to 'paste your taste'?" in Last.fm:

@djryan FYI, I work at Last.fm (trying to sort out the employee icon at the moment) :) – David Singleton, on August 05, 2009 11:34

David replied on August 05, 2009 11:19 to the question "What happened to 'paste your taste'?" in Last.fm:

It still exists, though for a while it didn't.

If you go to your user page (make sure you're logged in), scroll down to your artist charts and hit the "paste your taste" link, tada!

Check this screenshot for more detail;

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

David started following the idea "Desktop app should use my local music library in conjunction with streaming. Saving money and bandwidth." in Last.fm.

David replied on March 13, 2009 11:55 to the question "api/read select posts by tag?" in Tumblr:

I would love this too.