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 13, 2007
- Video, Widgets, WordPress.com
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Cool! Will be trying this out soon.
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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.
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Nice idea.
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Looks like something I can use. I will be testing it soon.
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awesome! so that we can listen to songs and music that one just one click on
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That’s pretty cool. Looks a bit nicer than Splashcast.
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This could be just what I needed. Thanks.
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It’s cool, but the text looked funky on it. Is this customizable via CSS?
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My goodness this just blew my mind… can’t wait to try out uploading hoop vids! Thanks Andy
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This is cool. You’ve got that music thingo going and now videos!
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wow.. the best thing that you’ve done here!
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hmmmm
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sounds great am surely gonna try out on my blog!!
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VodPod ROCKS!!!!!
Super cool service.
I have many pods there and can’t wait to bring them into my wordpress.
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Can we have this to have multiple instances of the widget, or are we limited to only one player?
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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!!
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Interesting. Worth a shot.
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very very coooooooooool
tnx ! 😉
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I like this. Thanks!
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Awesome! Thanks homies
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Neat idea!
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Awesome. Got it up and running. Will make a great addition to my blog.
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Oh wow guys!
Thanks so much!
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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.
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Thanks … Yahoo Video plz… 🙂
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hmm, dunno what to say !!!
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Nice, shall try it out………
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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.
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Cool stuff
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Very Cool, nice idea. Thanks!
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Thanks, try it out soon
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Gorgeous;)
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*chuckle* Pleased as parking meters?
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Very nice idea! Will try it…
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Awww man I was looking for backyard trampoline fight clubs 😦
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Great, this is why I moved my blog to wordpress, keep it up!
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hmmmm….Interesting….
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Andy, this is awesome. Vodpod is a great service… will try it out. Thanks \m/
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Fantastic idea guys 🙂
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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
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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. 🙂
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Thanks it`s great
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and herein lies more reasons why i’m at wordpress! AMAZING!! Absolutely amazing! Thanks for the hardwork!
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Great! you guys read my mind! 🙂
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thats a great widget, thanx
just bought me a videocamera, now i can put my movies on my blog
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Super nice! Me like! Thanks!
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Cool
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Thats really cool. Thanks for this widget, it’s one of my favs now. Keep getting better wordpress.
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Thanks i will use it
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sweet! THANK YOU
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I’ll try it out – sandbox video and gametrailers wanted!
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Looks pretty darn cool. I’ve gotta try it out. You guys have been adding so many updates lately! Thanks a bunch.
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awesome!!
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Cool. I’ll try soon. Thanks.
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Niceeee, sort of.
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This is great!
Is there anyway to choose which videos show in the widget though? It only seems to show my most recent additions.
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More widgets are goooooooooooooooooooood!
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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!
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GOOD
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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.
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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.
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i have been pining for a widget exactly like this. many thanks!
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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.
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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.
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is it working know? how to put on my blog?
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Sweet Idea!
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I want! Very cool, Andy. Nice facial hair, too!
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Cool!
I’m checking it out right now =)
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VERY NICE!
I’ll definately trying that out at the first opprotunity!
Thank you so much for what y’all are doing with WordPress!!!!!!
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I want! Very cool, Andy. Nice facial hair, too!
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Thats perfect, I love it already!
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This is new to me. And it means time for some adventure. 😉
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Good stuff wordpress. More toys to play with
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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.
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kewl!!!
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Just added it my blog. Very cool, love it.
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Very cool.
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damn nice ! thanks for this !
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Haha awesome!
Thanks a lot!
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cool…
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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!
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Yay! I really want to do that.
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Thank’s. Great Plugin
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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. 🙂
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For some reason… I can’t wrap my brain around this one. What can we use this for?
I need to take a nap…
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Wowies. I’ll try.
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super cool.. thanks WP !
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thanks a lot. it’s really kewl!
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We’re using it and really loving it!! http://coastalblog.wordpress.com
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