two new widgets – Vod Pod Videos and Platial Mapkit

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:06 am

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  Can anyone enlighten me with regard to these 2 new widgets that we have?
  Vod Pod Videos Platial Mapkit

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:08 am

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  Never heard of them. They sound like Finnish GPS systems.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:13 am

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  Check out your widgets. There I was tidying up and there they were although no announcement has been made yet.

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  mark · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:41 am

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  They are really easy to play with.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:45 am

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  @mark
  Oh dear me … the FAQs blog has yet to have any instructions placed in it {hint} and I’m a chicken when it comes to playing with technology. I was looking forward to a peaceful evening spent on re-categorizing posts as there is no bulk method of dealing with them yet {hint} but I sense there may be a lot of questions on the forum regarding how to use these new “toys”. :P

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:48 am

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  Don’t worry, I’ll have another pot of coffee and then see if I can break something with them. Will report back.

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  mark · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:48 am

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  They don’t need faq entries.

  They won’t explode or eat hamsters :)
  Just try them.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:51 am

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  Great, what am I supposed to do with these hamsters then?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 1:55 am

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  Diddle and fiddle with them I suppose … lol :D
  But I don’t have time to play as I’m only half way through re-categorizing my blog. :( Coffee, eh. Well lucky you I can’t touch it because it triggers migraines and I’m on day 5 of a cluster. Do keep us posted.

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  andrew · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 4:12 am

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  Here’s the scoop on vodpod:

  Vodpod Widget

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  trent · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 4:41 am

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  Loads of fun! Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 4:47 am

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  /nod to andrew
  Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
  /applause for andy for creating it.

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  trent · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 5:27 am

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  It would seem that the widget is working great, but it seems to add too many videos (past 3 that widget supports). Is there a way to only have it bring up so many videos (in this case 3)? Example is my blog off my profile in sidebar at the very bottom of page.

  Trent

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  trent · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 5:39 am

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  Whoops…..it is not working in my blog in any browser, but my other pods (for other sites) do. Is there a problem with formatting of this widget in Binary Moon theme?

  Thanks,

  Trent

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  gottabkd · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 8:18 am

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  I loaded the Mapkit and get this message:
  MapKit error: 0 is not a Platial map built for this blog

  So can someone please explain what it is(aside from being a widget I mean)?
  What is it supposed to do? And how does one “play with it”?

  Thanks

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  phasetwo · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 9:48 am

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  Same MapKit problem here.
  The “error:0 is not a Platial map…” error is created by a bad input (like puting in the url of your map instead of your ID)
  My newly created ID doesn’t work either though…

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  judyb12 · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 9:50 am

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  Ditto on the MapKit problem. What is it supposed to be, anyway?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 10:02 am

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  Vodpod does look cool, though. I shall be playing with that over the next few days. I apologize in advance to those of my readers with dialup: you are about to be screwed.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 10:52 am

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  The Platial Mapkit is indeed fun; it shows your location and your readers can paste in their location wordlwide as well. It’s connected with Google Maps, so paranoiacs should avoid it, but otherwise it’s fun.

  One thing needs to be fixed, though. I’m not loving the approximately 150-pixel-wide line projecting out to the left of the Mapkit widget, right across my blog text and images, and reading:
  Imagery C 2007 TerraMetrics, Map data C 2007 TeleAtlas – Terms of Use

  No, having that lying right overtop of my blog content does not take me to my happy place.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 13, 2007 at 11:28 am

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  Also, it’s a bit of a hog to load and slows down the blog while it’s loading. Is there a way to streamline that?