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The main critic about Video comments is that we can’t scan through them as we can do with text comments.

Coupling Seesmic with Commentag would address that issue in a brilliant and innovative way. People could easily tag their video and visitors would be able to filter Video comments based on their topics.
That way, visitors would be able to only play video comments which really interest them.

The website Francofous-seesmic has installed both Wordpress plugins.
So we did. Give it a try!

It all started with Philippe Jeudy who interviewed me at yesterday Paris WordCamp and uploaded live the video to his seesmic account.

I’ve just submitted the idea to Seesmic team. Let’s see what will happen!

This is quote of one of their last posts (”MacBook AirHead: why Apple’s new laptop is basically useless“)

“Apparently I’ve stirred up the hive, so I guess I need to address this
one point more clearly. (I already did in a comment but who reads ‘em?)” - Devin Coldewey.

That’s exactly the problem we aim at addressing with CommenTag.
On that post, there are (at the moment) 123 comments. Some of them have to be interesting. But still, they are lost within the discussion and nobody reads ‘em.

The current system of tumble up tumble down (”Was this comment useful to you? Yes No”) only allows to get rid of a very small percentage of them (basically, trolls).

What I would like to have while reading this post about the new MacBook Air (as a proud owner of an old PowerBook G4 12inch, I am definitely interested in the topic btw) is to get the point of view of the visitors but based on their typical use of a laptop.
I don’t care to read a comment about someone saying that the MacBook Air is shit just because he’s used to do video editing on its MacBook Pro.
Although that comment might be interesting (because could be well written, with good explanations), it is not relevant to me at all.
And I can give plenty of other examples like this one.
The result of this is that, like most of us, I just don’t read the comments. And I probably miss interesting thoughts…

What a shame.

So please, Devin, if you read this, give CommenTag a try.

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