Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.2.0 addressing short URL support

In previous releases, we had short URL support. A couple versions ago, instead of specifically supporting each short URL service, I implemented an “unshortening” service named unshort.me which covered the conversion of all short URL services to the proper long URLs. Well, that was my mistake of depending on a third party to be reliable because a month or so ago, the author made changes which affect the plugin and, possibly as early as December 2011, that service will go out of business entirely. So… I hunkered down and wrote the C# code myself to do the unshortening of the URLs in the plugin so this will never be an issue again. From now on, I’ll just suck it up and do it myself than relying on a third party… sorry about that!

On a side note, in a recent Seesmic Desktop update, the application not only caused my plugin not to work, but the entire application crashes altogether. I’ve made the appropriate changes to my plugin to prevent this from happening but just to comment on it… it was a change they made, not me that caused this and I’m still discussing with them what could have caused it. So if that happens, you need to download the new XAP file here and manually put it in your Documents\Seesmic\Plugins folder.

Be Sociable, Share!

•