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A comment on the problem "Can I HTML?" in Brightkite:

We had fixed the comments so they don't do that anymore. Everything should be consistent now. :) – Lesley, on November 04, 2008 19:28

matthew replied on November 03, 2008 23:41 to the problem "Can I HTML?" in Brightkite:

That's cool but the AJAX comments in the friendstream ARE parsing HTML. If that's not the intended behavior you should probably take a look as it could be a security vulnerability.

Lesley replied on November 03, 2008 23:27 to the problem "Can I HTML?" in Brightkite:

Matthew, in the future we will probably allow auto linking with HTML, but for now we don't allow any HTML.

A comment on the idea "Can the RSS feeds be improved?" in Brightkite:

Fantastic! Thank you! – matthew, on October 29, 2008 13:26

A comment on the idea "Can the RSS feeds be improved?" in Brightkite:

Matthew, that should be fixed now too. :) – Lesley, on October 28, 2008 22:17

matthew replied on October 28, 2008 02:24 to the idea "Can the RSS feeds be improved?" in Brightkite:

Thanks Lesley, that's much better. However, the articlehead link still goes to an unstyled XML file like http://brightkite.com/objects/d9b2513... for comments. Could you maybe chop off the "comments/xxxxx" part? The html page at http://brightkite.com/objects/d9b2513... is much more useful. Thanks again!

Lesley replied on October 27, 2008 23:08 to the idea "Can the RSS feeds be improved?" in Brightkite:

Matthew, sorry for the delay. We just pushed a fix for this that lets you know the post the comment is for and who made it. You should see it implemented here shortly.

matthew replied on October 26, 2008 23:01 to the idea "Can the RSS feeds be improved?" in Brightkite:

Has any progress been made on this front? Attached is a screenshot from the iPhone version of my RSS reader and a screenshot of the page that comes up when I click the heading link.

A comment on the question "Any way to update business addresses?" in Brightkite:

Usually I try to play around with different options like street name, intersections, zip code, etc. Sometimes I have to compromise and just use the zip with a custom label, which usually shows up as city, state [label]. It's not the most accurate option, but at least I'm able to display the label and city correctly. If you like, you can DM me the location and I can mess around with it. :) – Lesley, on September 30, 2008 21:21

A comment on the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite:

Thanks for all of the info (and the video!). We will get to this as soon as we can and I'll update here once it's been taken care of. :) – Lesley, on September 30, 2008 21:18

Chris Messina replied on September 30, 2008 20:39 to the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite:

Ok, I think I figured it out. There's no indication that a Placemark has already been created (possibly of the same name). Consider this:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/18443/plac...

I think the problem was that I was creating an alias that already exists -- and wasn't getting any indication that my change was successful.

Lesley replied on September 30, 2008 20:19 to the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite:

Thanks for that Matthew! I was able to replicate it, so now that we know what the problem is we can go in and fix it. Chris, do you think that this is the case for you?

matthew replied on September 30, 2008 19:58 to the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite:

Ah.. the problem is that the placemark names are invalid but the app gives no indication. "Rockville Metro Station" is too long. "r" is too short.

matthew replied on September 30, 2008 19:56 to the question "Any way to update business addresses?" in Brightkite:

Hey Lesley, what if you can't find a result for the correct address?

matthew replied on September 30, 2008 19:54 to the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite:

I've had this problem for more than a month now, but just got around to reporting it. It definitely seems related to the placemark name. If I try to placemark <http://brightkite.com/places/87607678...> as "Rockville Metro Station", it fails. If I name it "r", it fails. If I name it "rr", it succeeds.

matthew started following the problem "iPhone Add Placemark flow incomplete" in Brightkite.

Lesley replied on September 30, 2008 19:46 to the problem "Can't create placemarks on iPhone web app" in Brightkite:

Another user reported this problem this morning:

http://getsatisfaction.com/brightkite...

I have been unable to replicate the problem for creating a placemark. I tried making the placemark name the same as the label and it worked for me. I will continue to test this.

matthew marked one of notsheep's replies in Brightkite as useful. notsheep replied to the question "What's the difference between a placemark name and a label?".

matthew reported a problem in Brightkite on September 30, 2008 19:09:

Can't create placemarks on iPhone web app

I've had trouble creating placemarks using the iPhone web app. I think the problem only occurs when the placemark name is the same as the label.

Lesley replied on September 25, 2008 23:04 to the question "How to posts notes at moving locations?" in Brightkite:

One thing you could try is adding a label to your zip code, so your location is a bit broader and with your label people would see that you're on the bus. For example, on the website I entered:

20850 [Bus 191]

And this is what it looks like:

http://brightkite.com/places/6534d2ce...

The only catch is that you'll have to be in public mode in order for your labels to show up properly. If you're in private mode set to city, it won't show your label. But the nice thing is that it's such a broad level of accuracy your privacy won't be compromised if you post publicly.

Does that help some?