There is also a larger issue Bill which Josh touched on. The general problem is that while 90% (or some otherwise very hight percent of vloggers) have thumbnails in their posts they are not "semantically" specified. This is to say they are not specified in standard way which can be recognized by aggregators and search sites like Fireant, vlogdi, mefeedia and others. For example... eclosures can be specified in your blog post among other ways by a microformat standard "rel=enclosure". There is no standards for huge amounts of supporting meta infromation like thumbnails, i.e. there is no "rel=thumnail".
We're working on mechanisms not only to better identify thumbnails in blog posts, among other things, by creating a new media Microformat. It should not only have a tremendous immediate impact for people who use services like blip, feedburner, mefeedia, fireant and others, but it should also put this control into YOUR hands if you like when you're writing a blog post. P.S. Josh, I hope you'll collaborate on this media microformat as well as sharing other ideas on sharing thumbnail information. Peace, -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On 1/19/07, Peter Van Dijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Josh, I haven't checked that feature in like a year, so it may have > stopped working.. let Frank know if you have any questions about that, I'm > sure he'd be happy to get it running again.. all my fault! > > Peter > > On 1/19/07, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > We're currently working on this issue and plan to have a big new > > release of the FireAnt website in February. This new release will > > support the Media RSS namespace for thumbnails. > > > > Currently, we can grab thumbnails from blog posts if they are included > > in the link to the video enclosure file like this: > > > > <a href="http://link/to/video.mov"; rel="enclosure"><img > > src="http://link/to/thumbnail/image.jpg"; /></a> > > > > We also have the ability to get thumbnail images from MeFeedia, but it > > seems that MeFeedia may have disabled this feature. > > > > Hope that helps explain... please stay tuned for our new website > > update that will address this along with many other bug fixes and new > > features. > > > > Best, > > Josh > > > > http://FireAnt.tv > > > > On 1/19/07, billshackelford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<bshackelford%40gmail.com>> > > wrote: > > > My videos do not have thumbnails on FireAnt. It seems they do not > > utilize the Yahoo Media > > > RSS namespace attributes. Is there a reason why? If there is a legal > > reason.. why don't they > > > just come up with their own namespace? > > > > > > I believe I read something about FireAnt getting thumbnails from > > Mefeedia but my > > > thumbnails show up Mefeedia fine. > > > > > > Does anyone know if there is something I can do to have my thumbnails > > show up on FireAnt? > > > > > > Here is my channel on FireAnt: > > > > > > billshackelford.com podcast > > > http://fireant.tv/directory/channel/22981 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Find 10000s of videoblogs and podcasts at http://mefeedia.com > my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ > my job: http://petervandijck.net > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
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