The Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Research at the New York University has announced the availability of Video Comments, a WordPress plugin that lets you post video in your blog and allows comments to be made on its time-span.

A popup window displays the video and commenting area; as a video is viewed the comments associated with a current video time will be displayed. Viewers can also see all comments and jump to a specific point in time.

The comment area can accept a comment at given point in the video and saves itself in the existing WordPress database so no additional configuration is needed. All comments are listed in the individual post as a custom field and can be easily modified or removed by the editor.

This is a great tool to add to video podcasters’ toolbox. Since now audiences are able to place comment exactly on the timespan the want instead of generally through the blog comment feature (if the video podcast uses blog to publish).

Link: Video Comments.
See also: Video Podcasting Guide.

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