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March 20, 2007

Things I find annoying about a couple of applications I really want to like

• Ma.gnolia (and OpenID):  I signed up for an OpenID, ostensibly to have "one login for multiple sites" (though, I am still learning about it).  So far, the process works pretty well on a few sites (like Livejournal)...login, have OpenID "authorize" the site, and voila.  But not so, it seems, with Ma.gnolia.  So far, I have 12 "approvals" of the site by OpenID, but I still simply cannot login to Ma.gnolia.  Attempting to "sign in using your OpenID" with my OpenID URL...it just redirects me back to the same, now-empty sign-in page (with no error message).  Tried clearing cache/cookies...tried switching browsers/machines...still nothing.  Maybe I'm just missing somthing...
  
• Twitter posting:  IM posting is currently down (though, it is being worked on).  Posting via the neat little Firefox search bar widget works, I think, but if you happen to be logged out of Twitter, the post action takes you to the login screen, where I log in, hit return....and am greeted by a completely blank page.  Sometimes this happens when I post via the widget and am logged in...I just get sent to a completely blank page.  So, most times, I am forced to go to twitter.com to post, which is silly and negate much of the value of the app...not to mention the site is painfully slow most times.
• Twitter monitoring:  this is the most annoying...my RSS feed (for my friends' twitterings) all return absolutely nothing ("contains no items")...even though (see above) going to the site itself proves this is not true.  The RSS feed (which, to me, would be the handiest way to monitor the app) returns nothing in all manner of feed readers.  Nothing, nada.  So, as above, i'm forced to go to twitter.com, which is onerous for the aforementioned reasons.

Despite all this, at least I have an Alex Smoke Resident Advisor podcast to tide me over.

Clampants | March 20, 2007 11:35 AM