Seesmic Enables Video Commenting

23 Apr 2008

Video blogging has been atop of my interests lately and while I haven’t found my video micro-blogging solution yet, I am experimenting with various video commenting solutions for my WordPress blog. I installed Viddler‘s wordpress plugin which allows video comments. It was easy to install and worked like a charm.

Today, Seesmic has announced a WordPress comment plugin which allows video integration with your WordPress blog. It allows you to:

Post a video blog post on your WordPress blog
Allow users to post video comments on blog posts

Seesmic Enables Video Commenting | Bwana.org

I’ve installed this plugin on this blog for the time being and I’ve found one feature that makes it very very useful: Anonymous video commenting. While the plugin does allow you to use your existing Seesmic credentials to post, most users may not want to create a Seesmic account just for a comment. I find this will encourage more users to post a video comment. On the flip side, it’s also a little scary that anonymous users can post a video comment @Critter on Twitter assures me that Seesmic video comments can be moderated just like regular WordPress comments, but I’m still a little scared as to what may fall in my moderation queue

All in all, Seesmic’s WordPress comment is a winner and now Viddler has a direct competitor in the form of video commenting on WordPress blogs. Which is better? I think it’s way too early to say. Both are easy to use, both are well integrated with WordPress, but Seesmic allows anonymous video comments which may be its main advantage. You be the judge. Want a Seesmic account? Check this out:

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I don’t know if this is common knowledge, but if I were you, I’d jump on it! Feel free to leave a video comment on this blog post to test it out for yourself and also, to tell me what you think about Seesmic new WordPress plugin.

Post written by Bwana

Tags: seesmic, Software, video, web2.0

http://critz.org Critter

hello from Critter {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/0JbhLnrrjJ_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”hello from Critter ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/a6yiHqxIE6″}}}

Critter’s last blog post..Talon just turned 8. How old do you feel?
http://critz.org Critter

oh and another thing… {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/mYYfnlg6KH_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”oh and another thing… ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/HtuyTev5uq”}}}

Critter’s last blog post..Talon just turned 8. How old do you feel?
http://critz.org Critter

In Comment Moderation options make sure “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains x or more links” is set to 3 or more.

That should keep videos from being displayed as they await moderation

Critter’s last blog post..Talon just turned 8. How old do you feel?
http://www.bwana.org Bwana

Interesting reactions… {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/e8Bgw6qJBE_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Interesting reactions… ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/rfWHVaQHEP”}}}
http://blog.seesmic.com Cathy Brooks

{seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/Wf6EDDWmfj_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:” ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/MtHIAbQwwe”}}}
http://www.whitscott.com Whit Scott

Awesome Blog {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/Ri3pfmkff6_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Awesome Blog ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/zDGaCPbNBn”}}}
http://otir.net/dotclear Otir

Great post! {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/1qAz1d9l06_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Great post! ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/BSvFlUCgjZ”}}}
http://www.bwana.org Bwana

Thanks Whit! {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/qrE4rv4Ees_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Thanks Whit! ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/hT9gTZjKu8″}}}
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