i think there is a very good interview with lois.

miley cyrus rocks.lol.last year my mom had hip replament surgury.u rock.

It's interesting that many/most of the comments in this comment thread appear 3 or more times. If it were one person, I'd assume it was user error. But every comment? Is this a Disqus issue or what happened here?

Considering using Disqus and thought I'd ask... Best
Phil

nice idea, thanks.

I have just heard about Disqus from a blogger friend. I find this cool and more organize. May consider using this. Good job! :)

I have just heard about Disqus from a blogger friend. I find this cool and more organize. May consider using this. Good job! :)

I have just heard about Disqus from a blogger friend. I find this cool and more organize. May consider using this. Good job! :)

Don't have much knowledge about the seesmic. But I love to see the capacity of it. Goodluck.

Don't have much knowledge about the seesmic. But I love to see the capacity of it. Goodluck.

Don't have much knowledge about the seesmic. But I love to see its capacity of it. Goodluck.

ya pas à dire, même installé aux States, il a toujours une gueule à gerber, ce Loïc

ya pas à dire, même installé aux States, il a toujours une gueule à gerber, ce Loïc

ya pas à dire, même installé aux States, il a toujours une gueule à gerber, ce Loïc

Yes! Disqus in Seesmic Desktop! Let’s do it!

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Yes! Disqus in Seesmic Desktop! Let’s do it!

Bill:
There's an effort under way in Congress to name 2010 "The Year of the Bible."

Me:
Just as the USA has Christian Holidays, Icons, Prayers in the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, what has this to do with Freedom of Religion for All Citizens as stated in the Constitution?

The Religious Christian Majority has established a Proxy Religion in the USA, through Control of the Government. Why not a Christian Bible Year?

With the influx of so Many Citizens of other Religions, this past 100 years, does this mean a Renewing the Christian USA Government, to the World? Before the Christian Majority is Overcome?

I would love to see a Movement to Translate the Christian Bible by High Tech Science, in 2010, to show it is a History Book about an Equal Sharing High Tech Lifestyle of the Human Race on Earth, 'in the beginning', not a Religion.

The Equal High Tech Reproduction of Peace Adam and Eve Clones was lost, and without the continuation of High Tech Science Birth on our Home Planet, when the Clones took over the Reproduction of Misbred Human Killers.

Until we Know Why, Humans will continue Reproducing Misbred Unequal Male and Female Humans that Kill Each Other and their Home Planet.

Now Humans, following Christian USA, have our Home Planet set up Worldwide, for the Judgement Day 'Arm'ageddon and Planetary Fire.

Is this how the Christian Killing Religion works, along with other Human Killing Religions, set up by Humans that also have the Creator God of Genesis to guide them?

Life Elements After Death, are Recycled for Rebirth for Life on Earth.

Maybe making the Year of the Bible in 2010, will help Humans to Understand, the Bible is about Eternal Physical Life on Earth After Birth, on Planets and in Spaceships.


Eternal Physical Human Life After Birth on Planets and in Spaceships, is Recorded about the Lord God/Us, in our Human Image, in Genesis 1,2.

Well, I come to know about Loic when he started his community for Twhirl & I'm not talking about how his company doing. I'm here to talk about him. Any company, It can be Microsoft, can be Google or whatever but let's not forget that people make companies. Without them it's nothing and that's what i saw in Loic. I never seen a entrepreneur that much close to it's user and community and I think that's a very good point loic have.

People who use your product & Just selling the product is nothing but create relation with them it's something most of companies lack of & this is the point where loic stands for, different from others

Well, I come to know about Loic when he started his community for Twhirl & I'm not talking about how his company doing. I'm here to talk about him. Any company, It can be Microsoft, can be Google or whatever but let's not forget that people make companies. Without them it's nothing and that's what i saw in Loic. I never seen a entrepreneur that much close to it's user and community and I think that's a very good point loic have.

People who use your product & Just selling the product is nothing but create relation with them it's something most of companies lack of & this is the point where loic stands for, different from others

Well, I come to know about Loic when he started his community for Twhirl & I'm not talking about how his company doing. I'm here to talk about him. Any company, It can be Microsoft, can be Google or whatever but let's not forget that people make companies. Without them it's nothing and that's what i saw in Loic. I never seen a entrepreneur that much close to it's user and community and I think that's is a very good point loic have.

People who use your product. Just selling the product is nothing but create relation with them it's something most of companies lack of & this is the point where loic stands for, different from others

nice idea of sharing link, thanks, it will really be useful.

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nice idea of sharing link, thanks, it will really be useful.

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nice idea of sharing link, thanks, it will really be useful.

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Again, Riffly is a good example of the big red button simplicity that is necessary for video commenting to really catch fire, although they have recently spoiled their simple interface by slapping an unnecessary and confusing speedometer into the center of their recording screen:

http://blog.riffly.com/2009/03/announcing-premi...

... and you can see their recording interface by scrolling to the bottom of the comments and clicking on the Add Webcam Comment link.

It is a far, far smaller service than Seesmic but, in this case, they have got a lot closer to what is necessary.

Hi Loic, thanks for the reply and I hope you do not feel I am being rude towards you, I do appreciate the strides your company is making in online video, I simply feel that some small changes would make a big difference.

"on any blog you can allow anonymous video comments that let you leave one without logging in. It is the blog authors choice not ours so you are somehow wrong."

Actually, this is a very good example of what I mean, the anonymous option does exist but, in practical terms, it has been sidelined and hidden:

1. If we are talking about persuading first-time users to take that initial leap into video commenting, they are never going to notice that Anonymous option because it is not obvious. What they will simply notice are the two login fields and instantly decide not to bother. That login screen has eight elements: the Seesmic logo, the username field, the password field, the login button, the "Register a new account" line, the "Forget my password" line, the word "Anonymous" and the long, two-line slogan "Seesmic is bringing the video conversation to <blogname>". Very simply, the new user is not going to look that closely, they will not notice the Anonymous option, they will simply see a login panel and change their mind.

2. In previous version of the Seesmic WordPress plugin, the Anonymous option appeared by default but, now, the blog owner has to actively choose to allow it to appear among the seven other elements of the login panel. You have, effectively, sidelined the option, because the vast majority of blog owners will never look at that options page. Take a look at a few different blogs using your plugin - how many have enabled the Anonymous option? I have found none so far.

What I am saying is that to kickstart the habit of video commenting, to give it enough momentum for people to accept the idea, you need to do everything you can to encourage anonymous commenting, not sideline it because you like the idea of more users. In the long run, you will get far more Seesmic users if the idea of video commenting takes hold and, for that to happen, you need to have the most simple panel possible: the Seesmic logo and a big, red Record button.

Video comments, as a trend, will not grow from this current form, it has failed due to user inertia and reluctance to sign up to yet another service. To overcome the shyness that we both agree is an important barrier, the concept cannot simply grow in some steady, organic manner; it must explode quickly and become something that, suddenly, a lot of people are doing, so everyone can feel less shy. That sudden growth will occur when one of the video companies takes that leap towards simplicity and usability by giving users that big red Record button.

Give them push-button recording first, sign them up as members later, when the concept has actually taken off.

I look forward to seeing how you develop video commenting, I have been hearing wonderful things about your Twitter/Facebook client.

thanks Gianni and Disqus for the feature

we will continue to support video comments and I am pretty confident they will grow, it is not a technology problem it is a human habit problem: overcoming the fact that people are shy or not used to see their image online. It will grow but take time.

on any blog you can allow anonymous video comments that let you leave one without logging in. It is the blog authors choice not ours so you are somehow wrong. But you have a point and we will come with another product soon that you should like.

Interesting that Loic mentions signing on as an area in which Seesmic integration could be improved. Both Seesmic and Viddler blew the opportunity they had to build momentum behind video commenting and to establish it as something users want to do. Instead of making it as easy as possible for users to make their first video comment, both companies were pretty short-sighted, forcing users to jump through yet another sign in process before they could leave a comment.

Video commenting is not for everyone and is certainly not a replacement for written comments but, for certain uses, it could be excellent. I understand that Seesmic and Viddler are under pressure to impress their investors by building up as many users as possible but, in this case, they killed the golden goose. They should have at least given users the chance to develop the habit of video commenting, should have given the concept a chance to catch on before starting to demand registrations. People are reluctant and shy, asking them to jump through extra hoops before even started to record, that killed the idea stone dead. With simple, one-button commenting, the barrier to entry would have been low enough to get a few people into it and, from there, it would have grown.

There is a place for video comments, they could be a regular part of today's blogging universe but, instead, the prevailing wisdom is that video commenting failed. It didn't, it was simply that Seesmic and Viddler failed to understand that users needed to be lured, needed to be tempted into a new habit, not hammered over the head with yet another registration process.

There is one company that seems to understand this, but they are a much smaller operation: Riffly.com. Neither their free nor their premium version asks the user to undergo a registration process, and the main difference between free and paid is that the free version includes text ads. I have no connection with Riffly but I do intend to use their WordPress plugin, simply because I am not going to waste my users' time, I am not going to ask them to register with Seesmic or Viddler before they can make a video comment - I don't even ask my users to register with my site, I'm just happy to get their comments, you can't mess users around like that these days, not if you want them to engage with what you are doing and to contribute content.

I found what Loic had to say in this interview interesting but, judging by their actions, neither Seesmic nor Viddler are serious about the video commenting, it is simply a side thing that they tried and that even they believe has failed. Loic has stated in the past that his WordPress plugin never resulted in much activity, that he could see no way to monetize it and that there was not much incentive for him to do much more with it. It is a pity but hopefully some other company will turn up with a fresh perspective and do it right.

thanks Gianni and Disqus for the feature

thanks Gianni and Disqus for the feature

we will continue to support video comments and I am pretty confident they will grow, it is not a technology problem it is a human habit problem: overcoming the fact that people are shy or not used to see their image online. It will grow but take time.

on any blog you can allow anonymous video comments that let you leave one without logging in. It is the blog authors choice not ours so you are somehow wrong. But you have a point and we will come with another product soon that you should like.

Interesting that Loic mentions signing on as an area in which Seesmic integration could be improved. Both Seesmic and Viddler blew the opportunity they had to build momentum behind video commenting and to establish it as something users want to do. Instead of making it as easy as possible for users to make their first video comment, both companies were pretty short-sighted, forcing users to jump through yet another sign in process before they could leave a comment.

Video commenting is not for everyone and is certainly not a replacement for written comments but, for certain uses, it could be excellent. I understand that Seesmic and Viddler are under pressure to impress their investors by building up as many users as possible but, in this case, they killed the golden goose. They should have at least given users the chance to develop the habit of video commenting, should have given the concept a chance to catch on before starting to demand registrations. People are reluctant and shy, asking them to jump through extra hoops before even started to record, that killed the idea stone dead. With simple, one-button commenting, the barrier to entry would have been low enough to get a few people into it and, from there, it would have grown.

There is a place for video comments, they could be a regular part of today's blogging universe but, instead, the prevailing wisdom is that video commenting failed. It didn't, it was simply that Seesmic and Viddler failed to understand that users needed to be lured, needed to be tempted into a new habit, not hammered over the head with yet another registration process.

There is one company that seems to understand this, but they are a much smaller operation: Riffly.com. Neither their free nor their premium version asks the user to undergo a registration process, and the main difference between free and paid is that the free version includes text ads. I have no connection with Riffly but I do intend to use their WordPress plugin, simply because I am not going to waste my users' time, I am not going to ask them to register with Seesmic or Viddler before they can make a video comment - I don't even ask my users to register with my site, I'm just happy to get their comments, you can't mess users around like that these days, not if you want them to engage with what you are doing and to contribute content.

I found what Loic had to say in this interview interesting but, judging by their actions, neither Seesmic nor Viddler are serious about the video commenting, it is simply a side thing that they tried and that even they believe has failed. Loic has stated in the past that his WordPress plugin never resulted in much activity, that he could see no way to monetize it and that there was not much incentive for him to do much more with it. It is a pity but hopefully some other company will turn up with a fresh perspective and do it right.

we will continue to support video comments and I am pretty confident they will grow, it is not a technology problem it is a human habit problem: overcoming the fact that people are shy or not used to see their image online. It will grow but take time.

on any blog you can allow anonymous video comments that let you leave one without logging in. It is the blog authors choice not ours so you are somehow wrong. But you have a point and we will come with another product soon that you should like.

Hi Loic, thanks for the reply and I hope you do not feel I am being rude towards you, I do appreciate the strides your company is making in online video, I simply feel that some small changes would make a big difference.

"on any blog you can allow anonymous video comments that let you leave one without logging in. It is the blog authors choice not ours so you are somehow wrong."

Actually, this is a very good example of what I mean, the anonymous option does exist but, in practical terms, it has been sidelined and hidden:

1. If we are talking about persuading first-time users to take that initial leap into video commenting, they are never going to notice that Anonymous option because it is not obvious. What they will simply notice are the two login fields and instantly decide not to bother. That login screen has eight elements: the Seesmic logo, the username field, the password field, the login button, the "Register a new account" line, the "Forget my password" line, the word "Anonymous" and the long, two-line slogan "Seesmic is bringing the video conversation to <blogname>". Very simply, the new user is not going to look that closely, they will not notice the Anonymous option, they will simply see a login panel and change their mind.

2. In previous version of the Seesmic WordPress plugin, the Anonymous option appeared by default but, now, the blog owner has to actively choose to allow it to appear among the seven other elements of the login panel. You have, effectively, sidelined the option, because the vast majority of blog owners will never look at that options page. Take a look at a few different blogs using your plugin - how many have enabled the Anonymous option? I have found none so far.

What I am saying is that to kickstart the habit of video commenting, to give it enough momentum for people to accept the idea, you need to do everything you can to encourage anonymous commenting, not sideline it because you like the idea of more users. In the long run, you will get far more Seesmic users if the idea of video commenting takes hold and, for that to happen, you need to have the most simple panel possible: the Seesmic logo and a big, red Record button.

Video comments, as a trend, will not grow from this current form, it has failed due to user inertia and reluctance to sign up to yet another service. To overcome the shyness that we both agree is an important barrier, the concept cannot simply grow in some steady, organic manner; it must explode quickly and become something that, suddenly, a lot of people are doing, so everyone can feel less shy. That sudden growth will occur when one of the video companies takes that leap towards simplicity and usability by giving users that big red Record button.

Give them push-button recording first, sign them up as members later, when the concept has actually taken off.

I look forward to seeing how you develop video commenting, I have been hearing wonderful things about your Twitter/Facebook client.

Again, Riffly is a good example of the big red button simplicity that is necessary for video commenting to really catch fire, although they have recently spoiled their simple interface by slapping an unnecessary and confusing speedometer into the center of their recording screen:

http://blog.riffly.com/2009/03/announcing-premi...

... and you can see their recording interface by scrolling to the bottom of the comments and clicking on the Add Webcam Comment link.

It is a far, far smaller service than Seesmic but, in this case, they have got a lot closer to what is necessary.

Interesting that Loic mentions signing on as an area in which Seesmic integration could be improved. Both Seesmic and Viddler blew the opportunity they had to build momentum behind video commenting and to establish it as something users want to do. Instead of making it as easy as possible for users to make their first video comment, both companies were pretty short-sighted, forcing users to jump through yet another sign in process before they could leave a comment.

Video commenting is not for everyone and is certainly not a replacement for written comments but, for certain uses, it could be excellent. I understand that Seesmic and Viddler are under pressure to impress their investors by building up as many users as possible but, in this case, they killed the golden goose. They should have at least given users the chance to develop the habit of video commenting, should have given the concept a chance to catch on before starting to demand registrations. People are reluctant and shy, asking them to jump through extra hoops before even started to record, that killed the idea stone dead. With simple, one-button commenting, the barrier to entry would have been low enough to get a few people into it and, from there, it would have grown.

There is a place for video comments, they could be a regular part of today's blogging universe but, instead, the prevailing wisdom is that video commenting failed. It didn't, it was simply that Seesmic and Viddler failed to understand that users needed to be lured, needed to be tempted into a new habit, not hammered over the head with yet another registration process.

There is one company that seems to understand this, but they are a much smaller operation: Riffly.com. Neither their free nor their premium version asks the user to undergo a registration process, and the main difference between free and paid is that the free version includes text ads. I have no connection with Riffly but I do intend to use their WordPress plugin, simply because I am not going to waste my users' time, I am not going to ask them to register with Seesmic or Viddler before they can make a video comment - I don't even ask my users to register with my site, I'm just happy to get their comments, you can't mess users around like that these days, not if you want them to engage with what you are doing and to contribute content.

I found what Loic had to say in this interview interesting but, judging by their actions, neither Seesmic nor Viddler are serious about the video commenting, it is simply a side thing that they tried and that even they believe has failed. Loic has stated in the past that his WordPress plugin never resulted in much activity, that he could see no way to monetize it and that there was not much incentive for him to do much more with it. It is a pity but hopefully some other company will turn up with a fresh perspective and do it right.