It's not that complex though to track comments. You follow the permalink.
You parse the page one time... you look for the comment RSS most platforms have them now. You display all or part of the comments in the aggregator... maybe as trackbacks, you just take them into account in the aggregator as ranking info, display them with the other comments and on site activity... maybe you simply say "8 more comments at joevlog.com". This last idea in particular is a personal favorite of mine because it simultaneously drives traffic back to the vlog while adding value to the aggregator. There in fact may be packages / API's out by now on for tracking blog comments... there are certainly meta standards, at least one documented micoformat for comments. There are of course potential partners. I've chatted with the guys at co.mments.com. They're huge potential for them to licensce their technology. It actually makes much more sense then running a single webservice for them... because obviously mefeedia and other specialized aggregatory communities don't compete directly or even indirectly. But... partnership is probably not necessary... because like i said... comments are very widely standardized around blogging packages these days. Of course.... there's still cooler things... there's tracking... which posts/ blogs are linking in the content to which posts. It's meme tracking... like techmeme.com and megit.com. Tracking the conversations in the vlogosphere. All that data is already in mefeedia's DB... all that need be done is to process it. The combination of these two types of tracking could light a fire under the vlogosphere.... and of course it's implied that it'd light a fire under the webservice that did such a thing just like it's done for companies like techmeme and dozens of others. What's more... it's organic unlike digg... and embraces an open ecosystem unlike youtube. Peace, -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Jan 30, 2008 9:44 PM, Frank Sinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 [email protected], "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! 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