We're working on putting technology in place - a new Video Search Engine - that will hopefully enable the tracking of video responses across vlogs.
The problem is extremely complex as there are many variations on formatting, blog post URLs, embedding, etc. It will be interesting to do some small experiments such as apply the technology to a "hot" conversation that becomes threaded / moves in many different directions. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Meiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sweet work David, Jay and everyone who worked on it. > > Now all we need is 3rd party services, i.e. aggregators and meme > trackers to start tracking video comments as well as simply RSS feeds. > > This has long been one of the biggest failings of aggregators. it' > not just about the RSS... it's about the conversations at the end of > the permalinks... AND it's about other bloggers and their blog posts > referencing each other. > > As people such as David, Jay and the Show in the box team build more > value into the comments hopefully others will stand up and take > notice. > > Conversation tracking, meme tracking, or social aggregation. There are > many names and many approaches to exploring what is I personally think > is a whole new frontier beyond the diggs, facebooks, twitters and > myspaces into a much more organic and natural social space. > > These aggregators will make 1.0 versions of aggregators look one > dimensional. And they are. > > Examples of 1.0 aggregators > > - bloglines > - google newsreader > - various software aggregators: itunes, fireant, miro, newsgator, > netnewswire, vienna > > Examples of experiments in conversation tracking are > > - co.comments.com > - cocomment.com > - Megatite > - Commentful, commentful.blogflux.com > > And a couple of Meme trackers > > - megite.com > - techmeme.com > > There' probably a bunch I don't know about or am forgetting about. > > I have yet to see a RSS / blog aggregator that also tracks users > comments well. But there are a few out there who's names I can't > remember yet. > > I think the one web-service in this space that is best positioned to > start tracking video comments and memes across the vlogosphere is > mefeedia, but sadly though i've pushed and pushed it hasn't happened > yet. Consider this another suggestion. (Disclaimer: I'm not longer a > part of mefeedia.) > > -Mike > mmeiser.com/blog > > > On Jan 30, 2008 1:46 PM, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for those of you using Wordpress, Davod Meade craeted a whole new > > plugin for video comments: > > http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments > > > > It seems works much better than what we were using Semanal: > > http://semanal.org/2008/01/27/week-5-2008-video-commenting-is-live/ > > > > The plugin adds some extra fields to the comment area. > > The video comment then shows up as a clickable thumbnail and lays > > inline if you also have vPIP installed. > > > > This is a good example of old fashioned team work. > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > http://jaydedman.com > > 917 371 6790 > > Professional: http://ryanishungry.com > > Personal: http://momentshowing.net > > Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
