Smoothplanet » comment http://www.smoothplanet.com It is a smooth world Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 About videos in posts and comments http://www.smoothplanet.com/about-videos-in-posts-and-comments/535/ http://www.smoothplanet.com/about-videos-in-posts-and-comments/535/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:43:10 +0000 jerome http://www.smoothplanet.com/about-videos-in-posts-and-comments/535/ Publishing video on your blog is not as easy as a copy-paste of the code propose by the website. I often run into problems mainly because of the editor used by my blog platform. I found it painful enough to think that putting something together for the bloggers on “Parlons” might be a good idea… Done. All they need to do now when publishing a video is to put the video link between bracket [ ].

How it is done ?
A few lines of code put together (thanks to a very powerful hooking and plugin system in Wordpess) that transform this:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2x4YmdXwoU]

into that

<object width="425" height="355">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x2x4YmdXwoU&rel=1"> </param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x2x4YmdXwoU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"> </embed>
</object>

This was done quite easily because the code of the player can be automatically be build with the permalink of the video. Smart.

I tried to do the same then with Dailymotion, unfortunately they seem to not have think about that one as the URL use as a permalink for the video is not the same as the one to insert in the player code. Too bad!

I have not investigated all video system (I think Kewego should be allright) but if I was about to create some sort of Twitter-like video thingy, it is something I would probably like to think about… :-)

What about the comments ?
Well good question… so while I was at it I just did the same for the comments (see example), so that it is very easy to share video through the comments, and we are basically one step away for having a discussion through video. Quite easy to shoot its reaction to a post on YouTube, and just post the link as a comment! It will automatically transform the link into the YouTube player and make the video playable in the flow of the discussion.

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Del.icio.us and Digg (and other Digg-like) use voting mechanism.
Wikio uses a bit of both as well makes use of a semantic engine to categories the blogs.
Google as very complex algorithm.

I guess I’d like a service that “simply” make use of the number of comments in a post/blog. One could argue that this is exactly what coComment or co.mments.com is about but it does not seem to do exactly the job. coComment has ranks for posts and blogs but it is polluted by spam. So much that it actually makes it unusable, plus some features are missing. It would be nice to be able to set up our own timeframe (not only the last 10 days) and then add some filters (only french blogs, sport blogs). Maybe those filters could be added on top of the service but unfortunately coComment (neither co.mments.com) seems to have an API. This would really help to find out where does the discussion is happening.

Anyway the best ranking service one could think about is probably a very well-thought mix of all of these… to come I guess. Would be nice a nice mashup…

On a side note, I’d like to add that I have been testing the coComment Firefox extension. Kinda disapointing, it does not seem to work with all blogs (especially not with the I comment the most) plus it seems to be uncompatible with Prototype library (some website using Prototype did not work any more)

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