Quoting and linking
I released version 3 (still beta) of Mefeedia today. It has lots of cool stuff, but what I'm most proud of is the first version of a video quoting tool. Here's a screenshot:
Basically, it lets you select a part of a bigger movie, and create a new movie out of that. You can then link to that on your blog. The idea is that in the videoblogging world, people don't link a lot to each other like text bloggers do. I think it's because videobloggers can't easily quote a post and then comment on it and link to it. So I'm trying to change that. Let's see if it works.
Here's an example quoted movie, by the way. âLike Iâm trying to pull a fast one or something.â? (Quicktime movie)
I am still experimenting with what works best.
- Include a thumb and a reference to the original blogpost? Just link the quote?
- Add a frame at the end of the movie that gives some metadata?
# Jul 7, 2005