Smoothplanet » seesmic 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 Testing Seesmic http://www.smoothplanet.com/testing-seesmic/541/ http://www.smoothplanet.com/testing-seesmic/541/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:10:44 +0000 jerome http://www.smoothplanet.com/testing-seesmic/541/ Thanks to Stephanie (aka. Stephtara) I could give a try to Seesmic this morning… It is supposed to be addictive so let’s see but I am having a really hard time to use the video… you know it is hard to get over the “watching and hearing yourself” thingy. First good point, they did not make the dailymotion mistake and the code for the embeded player can be generated from the video permalink, I updated my Videos plugin for my Wordpress blogs.

Here is the result of my first post/video (in french):

Few things to improve (imho)…

  • How do I search for friends ? (well searching for friends in every single network is anyway a pain… to the point I am not doing it anymore and I just mainly let my friends find me)
  • The standalone player does not let me follow the user (no “follow xxx” link)
  • Let the flash player to be resizable (the player is but not the video)
  • Following a threaded discussion is very difficult which seems to be a big drawback for a “video discussion” tool.
  • I need a RSS feed to follow my friends updates.

One (killing) feature request:

  • Let me “trackback” a blog post. I’d like to be able to comment on a blog post with video. Does not have to use the trackback mechanism, but through the post permalink maybe, but I should be able to tie my seesmic video to a blog post (and by the way the link should be bi-directional, ie. from the post comments to the video, and from the video to the blog post). Call that medias convergence if you want,… that’s what I have been trying to implement on my different blogs by automatically converting a video permalink to the embeded flash player.

One side note… I am having problems with Firefox and Flash (on Windows plateform): FF crashes sometimes, I have not found out the pattern yet but it makes the use of Seesmic, based 100% on Flash technology, a bit hard (but of course this has nothing to do with Seesmic service)…

]]> http://www.smoothplanet.com/testing-seesmic/541/feed/ 5 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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