Would be nice to see and long overdue. Thumbnails are valuable. I also still like what ro had done on http://videoblogging-universe.com.
sull On 1/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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]<petervandijck%40gmail.com>> > 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] <jkinberg%40gmail.com>> > 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><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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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