Vodpod Widget
I am very happy to announce a new widget that is available to all WordPress.com blogs: Vodpod.com‘s video sharing widget. Vodpod has tagging and voting and LOL’ing and everything else you’d expect from a Web 2.0 mashup and we’re just as pleased as parking meters to have this widget on WordPress.com!
Here’s how it works. Vodpod is a place to keep track of videos you upload or find on the internet. Video feeds are published as “pods” which can be assigned a URL like trailerpark.vodpod.com. This pod is an excellent feed composed of—no, not backyard trampoline fight clubs—new and old movie trailers.
So you found a nice pod and you’d like to settle down and make a widget. How to proceed? Just take the unique part of that URL (trailerpark) and paste it in your Vodpod widget here on WordPress.com and you get this cool thing in your sidebar, just like that. Clicking one of the pod’s videos opens a mini-player without leaving your blog. How about that, eh? Fancy!
Trailerpark is a nice pod but you probably want to make your own pod with videos of your own choosing. Cool. You can upload videos from your computer or add videos from most of the major video sites. This is so easy to do… it’s a little too easy.
Vodpod.com even provides a bookmarklet (a little program that lives in your browser’s bookmarks) so you can add videos to your pod as you browse popular sites. Once you give your pod a URL (hint: click “Edit your pod”), you can use it with your WordPress widget. Enjoy!
February 13th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Cool! Will be trying this out soon.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Cool, but I’ve noticed that the recent widget additions seem to be kind of niche. This one, the Sonific one, these are more about sharing media, but doesn’t seem to be of much use to me, personally. I’d like to see more widgets added for more general uses that a large number of people use.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:14 am
Nice idea.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Looks like something I can use. I will be testing it soon.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:34 am
awesome! so that we can listen to songs and music that one just one click on
February 13th, 2007 at 3:49 am
That’s pretty cool. Looks a bit nicer than Splashcast.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:03 am
This could be just what I needed. Thanks.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:15 am
It’s cool, but the text looked funky on it. Is this customizable via CSS?
February 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am
My goodness this just blew my mind… can’t wait to try out uploading hoop vids! Thanks Andy
February 13th, 2007 at 4:39 am
This is cool. You’ve got that music thingo going and now videos!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:40 am
wow.. the best thing that you’ve done here!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:46 am
hmmmm
February 13th, 2007 at 4:56 am
sounds great am surely gonna try out on my blog!!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:58 am
VodPod ROCKS!!!!!
Super cool service.
I have many pods there and can’t wait to bring them into my wordpress.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Can we have this to have multiple instances of the widget, or are we limited to only one player?
February 13th, 2007 at 5:26 am
I loaded up 20 videos in less than an hour. One click access for all of my visitors, now that is cool!!
Thank you WordPress!!
February 13th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Interesting. Worth a shot.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:00 am
very very coooooooooool
tnx !
February 13th, 2007 at 6:16 am
I like this. Thanks!
February 13th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Awesome! Thanks homies
February 13th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Neat idea!
February 13th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Awesome. Got it up and running. Will make a great addition to my blog.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:46 am
Oh wow guys!
Thanks so much!
February 13th, 2007 at 7:32 am
So now, the waiting starts on who will get the first 10, 100, 1000 VodPod widgets.
I dont have it yet! but will patiently wait.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Thanks … Yahoo Video plz…
February 13th, 2007 at 8:03 am
hmm, dunno what to say !!!
February 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Nice, shall try it out………
February 13th, 2007 at 9:06 am
I probably won’t be using this simply because it wouldn’t be any use on my blog, but it’s pretty unattractive as far as widgets go
Still, keep up the improvement work.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Cool stuff
February 13th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Very Cool, nice idea. Thanks!
February 13th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Thanks, try it out soon
February 13th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Gorgeous;)
February 13th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
*chuckle* Pleased as parking meters?
February 13th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Very nice idea! Will try it…
February 13th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Awww man I was looking for backyard trampoline fight clubs
February 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Great, this is why I moved my blog to wordpress, keep it up!
February 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
hmmmm….Interesting….
February 13th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Andy, this is awesome. Vodpod is a great service… will try it out. Thanks \m/
February 13th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Fantastic idea guys
February 13th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Thanks for the good feedback on the widget!
I’ve noticed some people having problems getting the widget loaded. In order to load the widget, you need to point to the subdomain name of a Pod. For example, my pod is “http://spencerpod.vodpod.com”, so I would enter ‘spencerpod’ in the widget configuration screen on wordpress.
If you’ve just signed up for Vod:Pod, your default Pod does not have a subdomain. To set the subdomain, go to your Pod, and then click “Settings” in the upper right hand corner. On the settings page, you will see a field for “subdomain.” Enter a subdomain here, and then use that in the wordpress widget.
Hope that clears up any confusion. We’ll be working on a fix for this sometime today, so that new users get a subdomain for their pod, automatically!
Cheers,
Spencer
Vod:Pod
feedback AT vodpod DOT com
February 13th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Could you change the widget settings so it’s not this high? I mean, I LOVE it, but the blog setup doesn’t require 5 of my videos to be displayed at all times, different options for, let’s say, one or two would be good.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Thanks it`s great
February 13th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
and herein lies more reasons why i’m at wordpress! AMAZING!! Absolutely amazing! Thanks for the hardwork!
February 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Great! you guys read my mind!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
thats a great widget, thanx
just bought me a videocamera, now i can put my movies on my blog
February 13th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Super nice! Me like! Thanks!
February 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Cool
February 13th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Thats really cool. Thanks for this widget, it’s one of my favs now. Keep getting better wordpress.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Thanks i will use it
February 13th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
sweet! THANK YOU
February 13th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I’ll try it out – sandbox video and gametrailers wanted!
February 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Looks pretty darn cool. I’ve gotta try it out. You guys have been adding so many updates lately! Thanks a bunch.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
awesome!!
February 13th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Cool. I’ll try soon. Thanks.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Niceeee, sort of.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
This is great!
Is there anyway to choose which videos show in the widget though? It only seems to show my most recent additions.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
More widgets are goooooooooooooooooooood!
February 13th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Hey, me again!
Is there any way to changes the size of Vodpod in the sidebar?
The widget fit, but there is a long blue line above, that not looking nice.
Rock on!
February 13th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
GOOD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:02 am
cool I have tried it and like it very much but have noticed that when Vod Pod is down it also slows the load time for my blog. but saying that I think it is worth living with.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:06 am
Had this widget running on my wordpress all day and it works great.
Was able to stream in some of my vidoes from Dailymotion via VodPod.
Everything works so well.
Looking forward to see the full page widget from VodPod on my wordpress.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:25 am
i have been pining for a widget exactly like this. many thanks!
February 14th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Thanks for the widget, but I’m with webmacster87 on this one. A more general purpose widget like a Category Cloud would be much more useful to me.
February 14th, 2007 at 7:26 am
I’ve requested from VodPod that they enable the widgets to display 5 random vids instead of the 5 most recent. They say they’ll be making changes to it over the next week.
Also, I’ve noticed 2 new widgets – Top Clicks and the Platial MapKit. I’ve tried them both already. The TopClicks widget displays the complete URLs, and messes up the page layout; the MapKit doesn’t work at all! What’s going on? I’d quite like a geotagging widget for my blog.
February 14th, 2007 at 8:12 am
is it working know? how to put on my blog?
February 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Sweet Idea!
February 15th, 2007 at 6:18 am
I want! Very cool, Andy. Nice facial hair, too!
February 15th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Cool!
I’m checking it out right now =)
February 15th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
VERY NICE!
I’ll definately trying that out at the first opprotunity!
Thank you so much for what y’all are doing with WordPress!!!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I want! Very cool, Andy. Nice facial hair, too!
February 16th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Thats perfect, I love it already!
February 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
This is new to me. And it means time for some adventure.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Good stuff wordpress. More toys to play with
February 18th, 2007 at 1:32 am
VodPod will change the way we do video on our worpress blog. This is because VodPod allows us to grab vids from almost any video sharing site that allows for embeding and put them in one player. This includes YouTub, Grouper, Dailymotion, Revver, and many more.
I have been using the VodPod sidebar widget since WordPress released it.
Greatly looking forard to WordPress releasing the VodPod widget for the main part of the blog. Once they do this, there will be no more need to send our blog visitors off site or post one video at a time.
WordPress thanks for bringing us this widget and we all look forword to the next Vodpod widget release.
February 18th, 2007 at 2:18 am
kewl!!!
February 18th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Just added it my blog. Very cool, love it.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Very cool.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
damn nice ! thanks for this !
February 19th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Haha awesome!
Thanks a lot!
February 20th, 2007 at 3:01 am
cool…
February 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
it’s a great addition – some aspects of it, like ordering the videos you want seen are a bit cumbersome – but i’m grateful for the tool – thanks!
February 20th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Yay! I really want to do that.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Thank’s. Great Plugin
February 21st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Thanks so much, guys! Now I don’t have to recycle some of the favorite vids for my families. They’re all in one place just a click away. Super widget!
This is just one of the many reasons my blog is on WordPress.
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:02 am
For some reason… I can’t wrap my brain around this one. What can we use this for?
I need to take a nap…
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 am
Wowies. I’ll try.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 am
super cool.. thanks WP !
February 26th, 2007 at 8:22 am
thanks a lot. it’s really kewl!
February 28th, 2007 at 12:28 am
We’re using it and really loving it!! http://coastalblog.wordpress.com