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Abazab - Video Comments Shoutbox July 31, 2006

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Communicating with your friends and your blog visitors appears to be a hot activity. First there were regular text comments. Then there were text shoutboxes, followed by audio mailboxes and video clips. Combine them altogether and you have video-commenting shoutboxes.

Video shoutboxes let you post your own video clips on your blog. Your visitors can sign in to their own (usually free) account and then post their own video clips. In this post, I’ve used the Abazab video comments shoutbox from FestoonInc.

You can see a sample below. There’s a default video and a couple of short ones I added as a test. If you want to add your own video comments, you just need to sign up for a free Abazab account. (Videos are moderated in my setup.)

There’s no plugin, so Abazab works with pretty much any blogging platform. Here it’s running fine in Wordpress, and the Abazab website mentions MySpace and Xanga. After you sign up, just copy a snippet of HTML code into your web page template where you want to display Abazab, and voila, video commenting is enabled. (I haven’t tested for any other blog platforms, but as long as you have access to your blog template, Abazab should probably work.)

It’s funny. Someone I write for who is half-way across the world just text-Skyped me as I was writing this post. I told him to check out my Abazab shoutbox as we talked. His comment was, “Wow. It’s so hard to keep up with all the changes [in web technology].” Too true. In fact, Grouper is another video commenting service that I’ll be trying out soon, and will probably run a short review for here. And no doubt there are others I haven’t come across yet, or others in being prepared for release.

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