Disqus and Seemic Team up for Video Commenting System
Disqus and Seesmic are two very different companies offering two very different services. The former, Disqus, is a blog comment management system that can integrate with a wide range of blog-types to provided enhanced commenting and comment management features. The latter, Seesmic, is a video conversation service where users post videos and community members react to them by recording videos of their own. Each service is unique in it’s own right and each provides value to those utilizing it. Now, the two have combined to offer a very unique product, but one we’re not certain anyone needs. That service; video commenting. The service integrates seamlessly into the existing Disqus commenting mechanism and video comments sit in line with standard text comments. A select few blogs already making use of Disqus / Seesmic video comments and initial reactions seem to be a bit mixed. On the one hand, video allows for a much more expressive and instant interaction but on the other hand it can certainly disrupt the flow of a comment stream. What do you think, does reader-generated video have any place beneath a blog post?
I’m already irritated by the amount of producer-generated video.
* My phone can’t play it.
* There’s no way to “skim” through video.
* Not every narrator has a good “radio voice.”
* Not every narrator is particularly good at the language they’re speaking in.
* Not every listener is fluent in the language spoken.
* The deaf community… need I say more?
Video needs some help.
The start of a solution would be to put captions on everything. Then videos could have chapters, and somewhere down the line, players could add features like time scaling and FF/Rewind that doesn’t suck.
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Deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) have been doing this for a long time now. You can check out http://www.deafvideo.tv as an example.
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sounds like this seesmic thing is not gonna work too well, from what i’ve seen it’s just creepy people on a dark/blurry cam, i’m surprised they were able to get that much money from investors but that’s probably cause their CEO Loic Lemeur knows a lot of people in the Silicon Valley.
They should have a rapper battle system on sites like hiphopgame.com, that would be a good idea but as far as comments, I prefer a message board or a simple comment system, I don’t need to show my face everytime I wanna say something
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I’m with Champs. Whether the producer is hearing or deaf…or whether the video is targeted to the deaf or hearing community. It ought to have captions and it ought to be easy to add. I want to see every video player to have something like QuickTime has where you can fast forward the video and still get the message through American Sign Language (ASL) or captions. The idea of having chapters is pretty cool, again, it has to be pretty easy to create chapters.
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current.com has had video commenting for months, and does it well.
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deafvideo.tv looks like a crowdsourced ASL translation service, not a solution, and a great way of duplicating every video clip ever made for every language… if such a thing were even possible.
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OK, I completely misunderstood its purpose, and that may be an edge case.
Regardless, it doesn’t really change my points, it only demonstrates that I am a skimmer.
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It’s the threading of comments that makes DisQus a winner for me.
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