Movable Type Now Has Video Comments On Seesmic Too

I would like to thank all the team at Six Apart and newly acquired Aperceptive for collaborating closely with our own team to create our Movable Type Video Comments Plugin on the Seesmic Platform. One of my best friends Joi Ito was the first to install it on his blog and did a screen demo using Flowgram.

We now support Movable Type, WordPress, Disqus, Cocomment, Drupal (API support, plugin coming) and Dotclear (unofficial) to add video comments. The plugins are already installed in about 1500 sites and blogs.

In parallel, we launched our threaded player (in this example about 150 video replies!). We are not sure yet what will be the format that will be the most successful so we try both (in fact, they both are so far).

Connecting the distributed conversation: as you can see, the video conversation platform is at the core of our strategy, becoming the default and leading video conversation engine. We also try to get the conversation back where it was created (and not hijack comments) and connect the video comments together. Our first step in this direction is that if you post a video comment using the threaded player on your blog, it will also show in Seesmic and any other blog that also embedded the player. If a reply is posted on Seesmic, that reply will also show in your blog. We are testing it and it seems people like it so we will probably offer that option in the video comments plugins as well.

I was so happy Joi was the first to install it, I kissed him after having learnt how to speak in japanese: