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The new version of my company’s video micro blogging service Hictu, comes with a Wordpress plugin which lets you integrate video comments into your Wordpress blog.

Today it gets a major update, becoming more and more a standalone commenting plugin for Wordpress.

Here is the list of features:

Wordpress Hictu Plugin v1.1

• Text Comments (1000 chars MAX)
• Video comments
• Audio comments
• Mixed: video/audio + text comments
• Video comments through a Youtube or Google video
• Anyone can comment, leaving his name/nick and website
• If you are a Hictu user and you have an open session on your browser, your nickname is recognized automatically
• Ability to completely replace the standard Wordpress comments section

In order to integrate this plugin into your blog, you need to be registered to Hictu. Currently you need an invite to sign up, so please just leave a comment to this post and I’ll drop you an invite. I recommend to have two Hictu accounts, one for yourself and one for your blog, so all the conversations around your posts will appear on Hictu too, letting Hictu users discuss on your posts, too.

Last but not least, other minor enhancements are available, like many new moods!

If you want to give it a try, please leave a comment down here!

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A few days ago I wrote about a problem related to the wide availability of tools which let you share your lifestream, like FriendFeed. You post something on your blog, for example, and realize that people are leaving comments on it through FriendFeed.

A solution? This fantastic FriendFeed plugin for Wordpress which lets you pull any comment on FriendFeed and show them on the correspondent post on your blog. This way, you are able to put together all the elements of the conversation around your article.

You can find a test example here. I left a comment on FriendFeed to one of my blog posts and it appears on my blog too. You also have the ability to leave a comment on FriendFeed directly from this blog.

You can download this plugin from here. Check it out, it’s really worth it.

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According to the “official” definition, Web 3.0 is all about “semantic web” and describes what the future of the world wide web will look like.

If you have a Mac and you want a bit of Web 3.0 on your desktop, then this plugin is for you. In a nutshell, it adds the ability to find related emails to the one you highlight on your MacOSX Mail client.

Mac users who are familiar with Spotlight (all, I presume) will find this plugin very useful. According to its developer:

The RelatedMessages plugin builds an index, similar to Spotlight, of all your mail files, and uses that index to find messages related to the currently viewed message. The plugin determines relevance by looking at both the headers and the contents of the message. 

Related mails are shown on the right in a separate panel, but more options are available. It’s certainly far from being a fast plugin and CPU/hard drive are used intensely, in particular in the first phase after installation.

Being still under development, we can certainly forgive these weaknesses and I bet it will quickly become a must-have addition for your Mail client.

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