What they're saying about Magnify
For more information see our press kit.
May 2008
My apologies for missing last week’s Movable Type Monday. Today, I’ll be highlighting a number of awesome new (and updated) plugins that have been released over the past two weeks (especially in the realm of geolocation) as well as a series of new proposals and updates to the documentation as we gear up for the release of the next version of Movable Type.
Welcome to Movable Type Monday! MTOS Community Updates
Geolocation Plugins: Michael Sippey wrote about a number of new plugins for MTOS that allowed you to add location data to your blog entries including:
* GeoSpatial Simple, a plugin that allows you to associate locations (via latitudes and longitudes) with entries and Google Maps
• GeoType, one of the first products of the newly formed Six Apart Services, is similar to GeoSpatial but was developed in conjunction with LightPole and hooks into their services (such as publishing blog entries via mobile devices)
• Fire Eagle, a plugin by Six Apart co-founder, Ben Trott, which allows MTOS to interact with Yahoo’s new location-aware service Fire Eagle.
In the comments, Andrew Turner also highlighted GeoPress for Movable Type which provides another excellent alternative to add geo-awareness to MTOS!
Magnify.net’s Publisher: A great new plugin from Magnify.net allows you to search for and embed media (videos and photos) directly into your entries without ever leaving the MTOS interface! As the plugin’s page describes, the plugin works with every major Web 2.0 service including YouTube, Flickr, Metacafe and BlipTV. I know that I’ve wanted a plugin like this ever since having access to the same sort of functionality in Vox and I’m glad to see it’s now available!
Copy! Patrick Benny is on fire and released a new plugin simply named Copy! As Patrick describes, Copy! makes the process of duplicating an entry a one-click process (rather than having to open multiple windows/tabs and copying data to-and-fro). Now that CustomFields is available natively for Movable Type, this plugin will undoubtedly be a huge time saver everytime you need to make a copy of an entry!
AutoLink: Byrne Reese updated AutoLink, making it MTOS 4 ready! As he describes, AutoLink allows you to create a list of words that will automatically linked to a corresponding URL whenever they are used in an entry. Extremely useful when you’re frequently writing about certain subjects. Byrne also highlighted Make who now use MT 4 to power their blog!
Modularization Proposals: With MT 4, Six Apart began the process of modularizing MT (i.e. breaking the large code base into smaller parts that could easily be removed and/or swapped in with others). Mark Carey proposed the next step in modularization by making “commentability†a framework that can be extended to include not only entries but other things. Such a commentability framework would be based on the existing tagging and rating frameworks built into MTOS (allowing pretty much anything to be tagged or rated!). In particular, Mark highlighted the ability to comment on assets (files, such as photos or videos, uploaded through MTOS) or a user’s profile!
Discussion on this proposal also expanded to include “pingability†and “subscribability†frameworks (the ability to ping and subscribe to not only entries but other things in MTOS too!). Look for an official proposal page on the MTOS Wiki soon. As a plugin developer, this topic has me especially excited due to the possibilities it opens! MTOS Beta Test Updates
Barb Mosher on CMSWire has a good entry that takes a look at what the latest version of MTOS will bring
As we gear up for release day, the documentation is also seeing rapid improvements and updates including:
* Documentation on how to add comment threading if you are upgrading your templates from a prior version (comment threading should be enabled by default in new blogs!)
• A look into a few small new features that have crept into the next release such as the new SetVars and SetHashVar template tags (which should make those modular templates a bit easier to understand!). A new setvar attribute will undoubtedly be useful allowing us to easily capture the output of a tag and store it in a variable (no more unnecessary SetVarBlock tags!) [MORE »]
Welcome to Movable Type Monday! MTOS Community Updates
Geolocation Plugins: Michael Sippey wrote about a number of new plugins for MTOS that allowed you to add location data to your blog entries including:
* GeoSpatial Simple, a plugin that allows you to associate locations (via latitudes and longitudes) with entries and Google Maps
• GeoType, one of the first products of the newly formed Six Apart Services, is similar to GeoSpatial but was developed in conjunction with LightPole and hooks into their services (such as publishing blog entries via mobile devices)
• Fire Eagle, a plugin by Six Apart co-founder, Ben Trott, which allows MTOS to interact with Yahoo’s new location-aware service Fire Eagle.
In the comments, Andrew Turner also highlighted GeoPress for Movable Type which provides another excellent alternative to add geo-awareness to MTOS!
Magnify.net’s Publisher: A great new plugin from Magnify.net allows you to search for and embed media (videos and photos) directly into your entries without ever leaving the MTOS interface! As the plugin’s page describes, the plugin works with every major Web 2.0 service including YouTube, Flickr, Metacafe and BlipTV. I know that I’ve wanted a plugin like this ever since having access to the same sort of functionality in Vox and I’m glad to see it’s now available!
Copy! Patrick Benny is on fire and released a new plugin simply named Copy! As Patrick describes, Copy! makes the process of duplicating an entry a one-click process (rather than having to open multiple windows/tabs and copying data to-and-fro). Now that CustomFields is available natively for Movable Type, this plugin will undoubtedly be a huge time saver everytime you need to make a copy of an entry!
AutoLink: Byrne Reese updated AutoLink, making it MTOS 4 ready! As he describes, AutoLink allows you to create a list of words that will automatically linked to a corresponding URL whenever they are used in an entry. Extremely useful when you’re frequently writing about certain subjects. Byrne also highlighted Make who now use MT 4 to power their blog!
Modularization Proposals: With MT 4, Six Apart began the process of modularizing MT (i.e. breaking the large code base into smaller parts that could easily be removed and/or swapped in with others). Mark Carey proposed the next step in modularization by making “commentability†a framework that can be extended to include not only entries but other things. Such a commentability framework would be based on the existing tagging and rating frameworks built into MTOS (allowing pretty much anything to be tagged or rated!). In particular, Mark highlighted the ability to comment on assets (files, such as photos or videos, uploaded through MTOS) or a user’s profile!
Discussion on this proposal also expanded to include “pingability†and “subscribability†frameworks (the ability to ping and subscribe to not only entries but other things in MTOS too!). Look for an official proposal page on the MTOS Wiki soon. As a plugin developer, this topic has me especially excited due to the possibilities it opens! MTOS Beta Test Updates
Barb Mosher on CMSWire has a good entry that takes a look at what the latest version of MTOS will bring
As we gear up for release day, the documentation is also seeing rapid improvements and updates including:
* Documentation on how to add comment threading if you are upgrading your templates from a prior version (comment threading should be enabled by default in new blogs!)
• A look into a few small new features that have crept into the next release such as the new SetVars and SetHashVar template tags (which should make those modular templates a bit easier to understand!). A new setvar attribute will undoubtedly be useful allowing us to easily capture the output of a tag and store it in a variable (no more unnecessary SetVarBlock tags!) [MORE »]
"...universities should be curators of the videos that relate to their respective institutions. What Magnify.net allows them to do is create their own pages and then use their search engine to retrieve videos from across the web that are related to them."
[MORE »]
Magnify Publisher is the first of a new generation of intelligent blog applications allowing bloggers to capture, search and embed videos and images directly from the post window
NEW YORK -- May 14, 2008 -- A new era of multimedia blogging begins today with the release of the Magnify Publisher application for popular blog platforms – initially rolling out with support for WordPress and Six Apart’s Movable Type.
Magnify Publisher is the first native blog application that enables bloggers to search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and also embed the desired content directly into a post without ever leaving the WordPress or Movable Type dashboard. Magnify Publisher also features the ability to shoot and publish videoblog posts using a WebCam.
“Bloggers in our Movable Type community have consistently told us that their readers respond to posts with relevant videos and photos, so we’re always looking for ways to make rich media easier to find and share” said Six Apart’s Anil Dash. “Magnify Publisher makes that process extremely easy, providing an integrated application that lets bloggers discover, share or even create multimedia content right from within the familiar Movable Type interface.”
Publisher's video discovery features allow for fast search embed from YouTube, AOL, Yahoo, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Clipsyndicate, Google Video, Veoh, Red Lasso, and more. Image search is included for Flickr and Google Images.
Magnify.net is the leading online video discovery and broadcast platform for websites, groups and businesses, with more than 36,000 sites already using the Magnify.net video framework. Magnify Publisher extends Magnify.net’s unique features to the blogosphere and provides a free suite of new resources and timesaving services.
"The Magnify Publisher is an important new tool to bring video content to the blogosphere" said Dina Kaplan, COO of Blip.tv, one of the new application's launch partners. "Blip.tv is committed to supporting web show creators and helping to get their work seen as widely as possible. In a world where blogs are the finders and filters of great content."
"We think that bloggers are hugely important and trusted sources in helping people cut through the increasingly noisy web in order to find valuable and personal content," said Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum. "Building applications for WordPress and Six Apart provides bloggers with powerful features that help them further find, sort and share contextualized and pertinent multimedia content within a trusted platform.”
"Bloggers scramble around the web, looking for appropriate video and images to augment our posts so we can give our audience a rich and textured experience" said uber-blogger Chris Brogan. "Often times, the steps between finding something, assembling the code, and tucking it into our posts is enough of a deterrent for us to take the lazy way out and just skip the picture or video.”
"Now that I've checked out Magnify Publisher, it just seems like the kind of tool that should've been there from the start." Said Brogan: "What's not to love?"
Magnify.net is a hosted video platform that gives sites the power to upload or stream themed video content from their desktop or popular social video networks into one brandable and dedicated channel. The company currently hosts more than 36,000 channels and allows existing websites and an emerging class of content entrepreneurs to build, manage, and monetize web video channels. The basic service is provided free and users can build and configure their channels at www.magnify.net.
Contact: Alison McNeill FutureWorks PR Alison@future-works.com (408) 720-8228 Ext 112 [MORE »]
NEW YORK -- May 14, 2008 -- A new era of multimedia blogging begins today with the release of the Magnify Publisher application for popular blog platforms – initially rolling out with support for WordPress and Six Apart’s Movable Type.
Magnify Publisher is the first native blog application that enables bloggers to search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and also embed the desired content directly into a post without ever leaving the WordPress or Movable Type dashboard. Magnify Publisher also features the ability to shoot and publish videoblog posts using a WebCam.
“Bloggers in our Movable Type community have consistently told us that their readers respond to posts with relevant videos and photos, so we’re always looking for ways to make rich media easier to find and share” said Six Apart’s Anil Dash. “Magnify Publisher makes that process extremely easy, providing an integrated application that lets bloggers discover, share or even create multimedia content right from within the familiar Movable Type interface.”
Publisher's video discovery features allow for fast search embed from YouTube, AOL, Yahoo, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Clipsyndicate, Google Video, Veoh, Red Lasso, and more. Image search is included for Flickr and Google Images.
Magnify.net is the leading online video discovery and broadcast platform for websites, groups and businesses, with more than 36,000 sites already using the Magnify.net video framework. Magnify Publisher extends Magnify.net’s unique features to the blogosphere and provides a free suite of new resources and timesaving services.
"The Magnify Publisher is an important new tool to bring video content to the blogosphere" said Dina Kaplan, COO of Blip.tv, one of the new application's launch partners. "Blip.tv is committed to supporting web show creators and helping to get their work seen as widely as possible. In a world where blogs are the finders and filters of great content."
"We think that bloggers are hugely important and trusted sources in helping people cut through the increasingly noisy web in order to find valuable and personal content," said Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum. "Building applications for WordPress and Six Apart provides bloggers with powerful features that help them further find, sort and share contextualized and pertinent multimedia content within a trusted platform.”
"Bloggers scramble around the web, looking for appropriate video and images to augment our posts so we can give our audience a rich and textured experience" said uber-blogger Chris Brogan. "Often times, the steps between finding something, assembling the code, and tucking it into our posts is enough of a deterrent for us to take the lazy way out and just skip the picture or video.”
"Now that I've checked out Magnify Publisher, it just seems like the kind of tool that should've been there from the start." Said Brogan: "What's not to love?"
Magnify.net is a hosted video platform that gives sites the power to upload or stream themed video content from their desktop or popular social video networks into one brandable and dedicated channel. The company currently hosts more than 36,000 channels and allows existing websites and an emerging class of content entrepreneurs to build, manage, and monetize web video channels. The basic service is provided free and users can build and configure their channels at www.magnify.net.
Contact: Alison McNeill FutureWorks PR Alison@future-works.com (408) 720-8228 Ext 112 [MORE »]
"The Magnify Publisher application enables any WordPress or Movable Type blog to become... prime-time lineups for the unlimited channel universe."
[MORE »]
"A revolutionary blog application"
[MORE »]
"This seems like a cool idea as blogging becomes video-rich. The new plug-ins that will allow bloggers using Movable Type and WordPress to insert customized video directly into a blog post."
[MORE »]
"A very exciting new Wordpress and MovableType plugin aimed at making it easier for bloggers to find and include images and videos into posts."
[MORE »]
"The integrated ease of use for Magnify’s new blogging tool is impressive, and I thing a lot of bloggers will appreciate its features as well."
[MORE »]
"If you’re looking for an easy way to find, curate, and embed video in your blog posts, magnify.net’s publisher plugin is a no-brainer. Like all good web tools, it makes completing a task easier."
[MORE »]
"Magnify Publisher makes it very easy -- much easier than searching on a service, copying the embed or saving out the image and uploading or embedding."
[MORE »]
"Congratulations...Magnify Publisher make it easy for bloggers to locate and embed videos."
[MORE »]
"Publisher is a handy tool that cuts out tedious steps and will appeal to many bloggers who aren’t tech-savy"
[MORE »]
"Magnify.net, known for their ability to collect and curate video content into groups on their own site, have brought some really intriguing features to Movable Type and WordPress in their new Magnify Publisher application."
[MORE »]
Magnify.net has released a media search and upload tool in the form of a plugin for WordPress (and for Movable Type)...install relatively simple....screencast capture tool would be a very nice addition for the future."
[MORE »]
About Us
Explore
Press by month
