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Hi charrisonline --

The source key is only needed to syndicate your blog content back to blippr. If you do need a source key, then just apply to the partners program at http://blippr.com/partners/new - that'll start the process. You can still use the plugin without a source key, though! – Chris Heald, on March 01, 2010 21:04

I think I found the edge case that was causing you problems. Give it a shot and see if it works.

Thought we'd fixed that one. I'll triple check it and get a fix in for you.

If it's saying you're connected and publishing, but you aren't, that's definitely a bug. We'll fix that.

For imports, our job queue is a bit backed up - we had some issues last week that caused imports to not be processed, and we're still playing catchup. It should catch up before too long.

The Twitter login thing is, unfortunately, how Twitter does OAuth - they don't remember that you've granted permission for a login, unlike some OAuth providers like Google, or Facebook's federated login. I'll double check to see if there's a setting I can tweak, but as far as I know, they ask for confirmation each time.

We don't have multi-delete in the inbox (haven't had many requests for it yet!). You get Inbox entries when blippr sees that you've watched a movie, played a game, etc from an external service. It's there as a "hey, we noticed you did this, want to save/review/share it?" sort of reminder. It should be going into "My Stuff" if you have the appropriate option checked ("Save tracks I love on Last.fm to my stuff (only you can see these)") under Settings. If you do have it checked, and they are going into your inbox but not your Stuff, let us know and we'll check into it. That sounds like a bug, if it's the case!

Looks like the docs indicate that you can perform OpenID auth against Apps accounts now (with the additional discovery step, which is started by you entering your domain). I'll see if I can't get it whipped up today/tomorrow! :)

I'm pretty sure Google just bought Aardvark, so maybe it's some kind of Google-only hackery, but that sounds an awful lot like a standard OpenID login. I'll definitely see what I can learn.

Interesting - last I'd checked, they didn't offer federated login for Apps accounts. I'll definitely check into it.

By entering your Google account name, we generate special links in your profile page that Google will pick up on the next time it crawls the page, and will learn that those pages are about you. At that point, they should show up in your Google account, and you can identify them there as belonging to you.

This is a horribly convoluted process, and doesn't seem to always work depending on the mood that Google is in at the time, but we're working on making it better. There's not currently any mechanism to automatically publish to Buzz - all we can do is tell Google that "hey, this is a valid data source for this person". We are working on improving it, though!

Ack, that's no good! Can you describe what doesn't work? We're not getting any automated error reports indicating a problem (that I know of!), so any info you can provide would be useful. We'll definitely get it fixed up.

We'll check that out right away.

Absolutely. We provide a full REST API (http://www.blippr.com/api) so that users and developers can take their data anywhere. We don't want to lock in users - your data is yours.

We don't currently support Shelfari/Visual Bookshelf - they didn't export data in any accessable format last we looked. However, we'll take another look, since it's definitely not any good to have to enter them all by hand!

We have editing tools in development (they should have gone live in the first place!), but they still have a few bugs. We'll be rolling those out shortly!