thought thought goes Seesmic. Seeya Spammers?
Ok, so get this… you know how you can comment on a blog by reading it, ignoring the main point completely, and riffing off of a point made in the first sentence, because that’s all you actually read — the first sentence? Well, now you can skip the whole typing thing and let your mouth and body language do the talking with Seesmic, which lets you leave video comments on blogs, and across all kinds of platforms and devices really, through its API. Kind of like Twitter… The comment I made to this post is part of my Seesmic API feed, and is also readable on seesmic.com, for example.
I’m really curious to see whether the video-comment medium will be more spam resistant than text. And how that will be addressed by spammers? How do you mass video-comment effectively? All we really know is that you probably use an attractive female. But does the script get changed based on demographic targeting. I noticed an animated person on Seesmic posting video comments. She wasn’t hyper-realistic, but if she were she could be programmed to deliver thousands of customized advertising messages pulling data from an ad server. Maybe even update her ad message over time with page keywords (responsive to latest comments, or template content, reading image alt tags, header tags, custom microformat tags, etc).
Technical note: If you have Wordpress, download the plugin here, Pretty simple to get going. It lets you enable ‘anonymous commenting’ , so you, yes you, can leave a video comment, without an “account” at Seesmic — you can still put your name and such in the comment field.