Experiments: magnify video on WordPress update
Posted on April 6, 2007
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A few days ago i covered an experiment into collecting WordPress related video into a single source using magnify.net. At the time the widget for embedding a player in your WordPress blog failed to work on this site.
Following this I received an email from Steve from magnify.net (sometimes I think everyone on the face of the earth is called steve!) saying, basically:
We’d like to run down the bug and fix it.
He also let me know about a batch of updates to Magnify that went live the day after I blogged it. So here goes, deep breath, do we see video?
UPDATE: Yes we do! UPDATE2 : No we don’t - it was messing with the CSS for the page… investigating again!
Regarding the automated population of the video feed by magnify.net, this seems to work well with a good number of videos being added every few days. Some mistakes are getting through, mainly where the source of the video is a wordpress.com subdomain. I guess this is understandable but it would be nice if they could trap this in a filter to ignore the wordpress keyword in domains of the form *.wordpress.com.
That aside I think it is a valuable service worth experimenting with.
If you publish WordPress related videos you think should be featured let me know and we’ll try to get them in there.
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