Great to see Dare weigh in on the current state of Portable Contacts, with a positive opinion and some helpful feedback--the perfect combo. :) - Joseph Smarr
Yeah, except what's his issue with groups like ours solving our tech problems? If people like the solutions and adopt them, isn't that the marketplace at work? Why the hate? - Chris Messina
Good point, Chris. (I guess I should read the entire post before liking and commenting! :) - John McCrea
Listening to your discussion of this, Chris, on the Gillmor Gang. Nice job. We'll discuss it on The Social Web TV in the show we record in a few minutes. - John McCrea
Great to see this new OpenID plug-in for wordpress blogs, with a ton of powerful enhancements. This sort of thing is critical for bringing these open building blocks to mainstream users! - Joseph Smarr
Another write-up of my Web 2.0 Expo NY talk. My favorite quote: "He makes complex subjects clear and somehow manages to do that while talking at a rate of hundreds of words per minute." :) - Joseph Smarr
Wow, some great usability notes on improving OpenID from Eric Sachs and team at Google. This is what you get when the "big guys" start investing in the open stack! - Joseph Smarr
Chris, nothing personal but abbreviating this as PorC, makes it sound like pork. We need a better abbreviation for it, like Portacts API or something. (Yes, terrible, but it is something.) - Rob Diana
I'm fine with spelling it out, but if an abbreviation is strongly desired, one could consider PoCo or PCons - John McCrea
Very cool demo made by Brian Ellin of JanRain that demonstrates using OpenID, XRDS-Simple, OAuth, and Portable Contacts together so a user can log into a new site and provide access to their address book, all in one fell swoop. And best of all, he coded the whole thing up during the Portable Contacts hackathon--wow! - Joseph Smarr
Nice coverage of the PortableContacts hackathon and summit from ShopIt, an early-adopter PortableContacts consumer with some great ideas! - Joseph Smarr
Coverage of the Portable Contacts Hackathon we organized for the night before the Portable Contacts Summit. Thanks to David Recordon and SixApart for hosting us! - Joseph Smarr
Thanks, Travis! I'm blessed by being part of an incredible team working on this show. And I am really psyched for next week, when we'll be shooting on location at Facebook's F8 conference! - John McCrea
I caught episode 1 and, really enjoyed it. Haven't watched 2 all the way through yet but, so far so good! Keep them coming. - Candace Holly
It would be fun to have guests as well.. So far the content selection has been excellent and very relevant (at least for me) - Travis Parsons
Travis, that's certainly the plan. Thanks! - John McCrea
Woohoo...I'm famous. *grin* I'll keep checking for a podcast feed...if things start flowing right, I'll definitely update ya! Oh, and another good show, btw. I do definitely like the content; I wouldn't push for enclosure feed if I didn't care. - Ken Kennedy
Ken, thanks! We appreciate your help on this. - John McCrea
is facebook still hot? leveling off? cooling? doesnt seem to be written about so much lately - Gregory Lent
I think Facebook recently overtook MySpace, so still hot, I'd say. - John McCrea
John, just found this. Viddler does have a link up on how to manage both regular enclosure feeds and viddler: http://blog.viddler.com/cdevro... It appears to be directed at existing enclosure feed users who are adding Viddler (where you're basically the reverse), but it does give the gist. Basically, you're wiring things up in such a way to add an enclosure link in your feed. Unfortunately, Viddler doesn't look like they want to handle storing it, but you could do it w/ blip.tv, for ex. - Ken Kennedy
Ken, thanks for your continued diligence on this. Quick question, does the scenario you seek work on Wine Library TV, another Viddler-powered site? It is at: http://tv.winelibrary.com/ - John McCrea
“Social Web TV, experts in taking control of your data, are the ones without a podcast feed. Good luck getting me to take you seriously as experts on that subject. EPIC FAIL! http://www.thesocialweb.tv/blo...”
I tracked down what MIGHT be their enclosures feed for them: http://www.viddler.com/explore... The media objects just appear to be redirects, though...I'm not sure they'll work or not. I'll check when I get home; don't have my podcatcher here. - Ken Kennedy
Dave and Ken, we appreciate your help. We're new to Internet tv and podcasting, but I think you'll find us a good source of relevant info and analysis on the topic of our show. - John McCrea
John, good way to hang in there despite my antagonism. I do think when your gig is to brand yourself as an expert, that comes with some responsibility and knowing the playing field is a big part of it. Good luck! - Dave Slusher
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Feel the love, John. We're gruff, but with hearts of gold! *grin* - Ken Kennedy
And know that you're not alone. Is there something going around that makes new(ish) podcasters, technical experts or otherwise, believe they're above making sure that their RSS feeds are functional? Some of us old fogeys predate iTunes and can't be bothered with that pathetic excuse for a podcatcher.... - Linda Mills
@Linda We sure don't feel "above" anything. Any and all feedback/coaching/criticism welcome. - John McCrea
Dave-of course you're right, but since we're embedding Viddler videos in a TypePad blog, there's no good way to do this automatically, so most people publishing shows like this have to do some custom hack, which is what we're doing now. We'll fix it soon, and it would be great to think of ways to do this sort of thing more automagically, since we're clearly not the last people who will want to publish videos in the context of a blog. Any ideas on the best way to link up video sites and blogs to merge the video content as enclosures in the feed? Bonus points for non-vendor-specific open solutions! :) - Joseph Smarr
No joy, John. I'll comment at blog as well, but short of it is that the "media" enclosure from Viddler is just a 1k file that appears to be a forward to a shockwave app. I'll take a closer look after dinner, but an app like Miro is a good reference tool to try and see if the feed is usable. - Ken Kennedy
@John - I wasn't aiming that comment at you! While iTunes made it easy for a lot of folks to hear podcasts, it also allowed some people to act out the misconception that you couldn't hear podcasts without an iPod. - Linda Mills
I think "EPIC FAIL!" might be a little strong, but we get the point and appreciate the feedback! We've added FeedBurner to the mix which is a start, though not the entire way since we're embedding Flash video. I've also shot an email off to Viddler to see what they recommend when we're trying to provide a feed of content merged between the blog and video. Thanks for the help so far and hopefully we'll get this sorted out soon. Anyone want to join us for an episode on how to do video podcasting? :) - David Recordon
David, from my perspective at the time that was exactly correct. I read about your show, was interested, and left empty handed, frustrated and no longer interested. I think the choice of video hosting sites looms large here. Ourmedia has RSS enclosures baked in, for one. The ones like YouTube that focus on flash are kind of the opposite of what we are talking about. We want to set it and forget it and have videos show up. - Dave Slusher
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credit for engaging social web tv dudes, but have to agree w/ dave and others - viddler provides a nice in browser video experience but something that allows multiple ways to consume (i like blip.tv) would be a better choice - also w/ proper enclosure (feedburner might do it) your shows will appear as players in your friendfeed room, another way to consume - will check you guys out though - like the concept - mike "glemak" dunn
Blip.tv is another good hosting site that has excellent RSS enclosure support, as well as takes care of sprinkling the magic iTunes specific pixie dust for you. You're in luck, b/c the podcast enclosure spec is both open, and easy enough to hand code in a pinch. First off, you need an url that points to a boring old media file, though. Even a flv will work in a pinch, but mp4 is prb best. - Ken Kennedy
Confession: I suggested Viddler 'cause Gary Vaynerchuk was using it for Wine Library TV. Eager to hear the suggestions here. We are not (yet) wed to any platform. After all, it's only Episode 1! - John McCrea
Joseph, David and John: Here's one suggestion: you have the original video, the one you upload to viddler. Upload that somewhere that will have the bandwidth and scalability you need (Amazon S3 is cheap and scales like a charm automatically.) I'm sure Typepad will put that video in the RSS feed as an enclosure if you give Typepad the URL to where you have uploaded it. That lets you have the Viddler embed AND the original source video as an enclosure. You only need to add this extra video upload + URL step to your workflow. - Dread Pirate PJ
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That would work, PJ, but blip.tv also works fine, and I think you guys would fit in really well over there. They do very nice embeds as well. And guess what...WineLibraryTV also uses blip.tv! Blip doesn't try to muck about and get some exclusionary license on your stuff, so it's easy to put things up in multiple places. And your iTunes/RSS/Miro feeds just show up on the show page. - Ken Kennedy
Oh, actually, I semi-misread Dread Pirate PJ there. I was suggesting blip.tv as alternative to the S3 upload, but the general concept is exactly the same. You can keep Viddler if you want, just upload somewhere else that supports good enclosure feeds. I've been poking the publisher.swf link to try and drag the "real" url out of it, but no luck (then again, I'm no Flash expert. *grin*) - Ken Kennedy
my dad has started blogging! his institute has set up a multi-author "lifestream blog" that will report on the various projects and events they're involved in. super cool! - Joseph Smarr
my dad has started blogging! his institute has set up a multi-author "lifestream blog" that will report on the various projects and events they're involved in. super cool! - Joseph Smarr
nice roundup of the recent OAuth Summit by Eran Hammer-Lahav, who organized it (and wrote a lot of the OAuth spec), including a mention of the demo I gave there of the PortableContacts API - Joseph Smarr
nice roundup of the recent OAuth Summit by Eran Hammer-Lahav, who organized it (and wrote a lot of the OAuth spec), including a mention of the demo I gave there of the PortableContacts API - Joseph Smarr
