Archive for December, 2006

Brightcove and Revver Updates

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Hi Everyone!

I’ve been swamped this month but wanted to start posting a bit more. Brightcove sent me a test plugin to try out, and Micki from Revver agreed that the Revver plugin wasn’t working here, but was other places for her. Speaking of Revver and not working… At least (I believe) Steven Starr and Micki Krimmel are still over there as it’s a great concept and company. So I need to dig a bit deeper into the K2 Wordpress Skin where I think resolution to the plugin issue might be found. In addition, I’d like to try lightening up the text a bit so if any K2 experts out in the blogosphere read this and could easily point out which file I’d be doing this in and where, it’d be very much appreciated.

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Zisk On Demand Brightcove Video

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

We were early Brightcove beta testers, and I’m extremely impressed with their offering. However, there are a number of publicly known issues I’ve encountered. The first (and close to a showstopper for me, the way I work) is that it’s difficult to embed a Brightcove player in Wordpress. I had high hopes that this would be resolved soon and was under the impression that Brighcove and Wordpress were working on a solution. However, I ran into Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, and he claimed to have never even heard of Brightcove, let alone to know there was a problem with Brightcove and Wordpress iintegrating.

Thus, while I’d really like to have a graphic to introduce the video (and though I could possibly figure out how to do this using Enric’s vPIP) I’m just going to post a link to the video and hope that Brightcove and Wordpress get their collaborative acts together, and solve a conflict which shouldn’t take more than a few hours to work through if they were to start communicating. I see that someone wrote a Revver Wordpress Plugin to do (what I believe) is exactly what is needed here, and I’ll try it out once Revver approves the video. Though someone recently complained to me that it takes Brightcove an extremely long time to approve submitted videos, I believe they are mistaken, as all the videos I’ve uploaded to Brightcove have been made available automatically, within seconds.

Anyway, here’s a link to another episode of Zisk On Demand:News, Internet, Technology, Politics, and Chess!

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Google Checkout Threatens eBay.

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Just wanted to pop in a notice about Google Checkout. Most folks using payment gateways seem to be using either the one Paypal developed or the one eBay acquired last year from Verisign.

Google is presenting a viable option for many, and if any of you consider trying Google Checkout out in order to collect payments, I’d very much appreciate it if you’d do so through the following affilliate link.

Get Google Checkout

I’ll promote you or what you’re up to in some way if you do.

From Google’s site “Google Checkout helps you attract new customers, convert more sales and lower transaction processing costs.

Google Checkout™ is a checkout process that you provide on your website to enable your customers to buy from you quickly and securely, using a single username and password. And once they make a purchase, you can use Checkout to charge their credit cards, process their orders, and receive payment in your bank account.

This appears to be a direct attack on eBay’s payments business. But why not? There’s a huge amount of money to be potentially made in holding and transferring other people’s money.

If you have any comments on how Google Checkout is working for you, please don’t hesitate to post or linkback.

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