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Errors and Inconsistencies on Empire Avenue

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 12:33am — decibel.places

Social Networking sites like Empire Avenue are fantastic - but often they #fail in their UI/UX. I collect and report foibles on LinkedIn and Google+ already. Here are some on Empire Avenue (bet you saw this coming!)

Negative Mission Rewards Remaining

In my Mission Dashboard, one mission has been fully claimed with twenty completions. However, instead of showing 0 remaining rewards, it shows -20

Errors and Inconsistencies on Pinterest

Fri, 10/19/2012 - 9:18pm — decibel.places

Social Networking sites are fun - but often they #fail in their UI/UX. I collect and report foibles on LinkedIn and Google+ already. Here are some on Pinterest (bet you saw this coming!)

Constant Contact URL (or Image Size ?) Suppresses Pin Photo

I tried to pin a page I viewed by clicking on a link in an email. The pin is successful, it is counted on the board, but the image is not displayed. Why? When I removed the Constant Contact (email marketing) tracking token from the URL, then the pin's image displayed. But then it went away too. Now I have a board with 7 pins, which only displays two pins:

But the cover, which also lists 7 pins, shows the dog image 4 times:

Or maybe the image is too large? It's 950px × 2,418px (and cute too)

Or maybe Pinterest is having some hiccups tonight, because when I tried to pin the small image above to a new board Error Screenshots the image doesn't display there either:

Errors and Inconsistencies on Google Plus

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 12:03pm — decibel.places

Social Networking sites like Google+ and LinkedIn are fantastic - but often they #fail in their UI/UX. I collect and report foibles on LinkedIn already. Here are some on Google+ (bet you saw this coming!) View my stream on Google+

Can't Add Circle - Come Back Tomorrow (and the next day, and the next...)

I tried "tomorrow" (today) and got the same message. It's like those signs in bars that say:

Free Beer! Come Back Tomorrow!

Can't Plus Google+

I used to be able to add Google+ to a post, I saw others add it today as a +link; it's not because it's public, tried without that...

Errors and Inconsistencies on socl

Sun, 05/20/2012 - 5:28pm — decibel.places

I joined the new Microsoft social search network socl

They are having some birthing issues:

socl site issues

Now You See It Now You Don't

I did a search for "Drupal" and added some links to my favorite resources to a post in my feed.

Someone even favorited it, I got the notification.

Later, I wanted to let Chris Voss know - and my post was gone.

docl post deleted

Then I clicked on the link to it on my Facebook, and it was back.

But then it was gone again. - or is it back?

I just tried to post a link to this blog post on socl, and nothing happened.

Please +K my influence in Social Networks on klout

Empire Avenue: a social game, a community and ?

Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:10pm — decibel.places

I joined Empire Avenue yesterday because Chris Pirillo (e)Pirillo recommended it on Google+ for people who already use social networks to promote themselves and their businesses.

It's kind of fun, investing virtual scrip (eaves) in other people and getting invested in and meeting new people. It could easily become an obsession, there the obsessed are stars, not trolls.

It connects with your activity and network on Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, G+ etc.

I also added this blog there, so here's the code to promote my RSS feed to an offical Blog on Empire Avenue: {EAV:7b7cbef88863e3fa}

Oh yeah, there's my ticker in the right sidebar ►→→→→→→→

A Week Without Foursquare

Sun, 02/05/2012 - 12:09pm — decibel.places

Since I am working from home for now, I'm not going out as much. I decided to see what it would be like to go a week without a foursquare check-in.

I played the points game and I beat out all my other friends with weekly averages of 180+ - until I friended someone in my neighborhood who also commutes to New York. He averages over 300 points per week, I wonder how he gets anything else done between check-ins!

I was tempted to checkin when I visted my local haunts: Twin City Liquors, Food Bazaar, etc, and yesterday at the NJ Drupalcamp - but it was Day 7 - so I resisted.

I met someone at a NYC Drupal Happy Hour and the first thing he said is, "You're the one who is always checks in, I learn about new places from you."