Irene, Crowdabout take your Blip feed (or any feed with flash flv files) and create a profile on the Crowdabout.us site with all your videos on it. You can then use their timeline-based commenting. So you can't host on your own domain, though you can embed their player in your blog. Hopefully they will be releasing a larger embeddable player which includes some more of their cool commenting features. And you can subscribe to feeds of comments on each video.
So if you were to use Crowdabout for stimulating your social chatter, you'd really have to get people to go to the Crowdabout site. Which would preclude the addition of text articles, etc to your blog which you said you wanted. I don't know if you've looked into social networking kits like Vox and Ning - i haven't, but they might allow you to do some of the stuff you want. Keeping content refreshed and not letting good posts get pushed out purely because of chronology is an old problem. I'd be interested to see what you decide. Rupert On 12 Mar 2007, at 02:26, Irene Duma wrote: Did not here about Crowd About. Very Cool. Will go investigate. Do you know if you can host on your own domain? Yeah we are currently using Blip, so that¹s 50,000,001. We¹ll stasy there, unless we go with something like Videoegg, which I am investigating too. Irene On 3/11/07 9:08 PM, "Scott Lockman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Irene, > > A lot of folks are starting to talk about Crowd About > <http://crowdabout.us>as a community-centered web platform for > podcasters and vloggers. I've just > started to play around with it and it looks promising. It allows for > audience members to leave audio/video/text comments anywhere on an episode's > timeline with links to external resources as desired. > > Don't know if it what you have in mind, but it might be worth considering. > > For hosting your files, I have haven't heard any complaints about > Blip.tv<http://blip.tv>. > 50,000,000 vloggers can't be wrong. > > Just my 2 yens worth. > > Scott Lockman > http://tokyocalling.org > http://crowdabout.us/scott/myshow > > On 3/12/07, Irene Duma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:irene% 40strangeduck.com> > > wrote: >> > >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > Am working to develop a new vlog - with extras - and we want to make sure >> > it's community friendly. >> > >> > ... >> > > > Plus we really want to get as much involvement as possible from visitors, >> > and this will grow with the site. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Irene >> > >> > Irene Duma >> > Strange Duck Media >> > ...a good egg >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:irene%40strangeduck.com> >> <irene%40strangeduck.com> >> > http://www.strangeduck.com >> > http://bittertonic.com >> > >> > >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
