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.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.1.0 fixing YouTube URL issues

In the case that non-alphanumeric characters appeared in a YouTube URL, neither the thumbnail nor the video would show. I’ve released a new version of the Video Preview plugin to address this. It should automatically update to this latest version. If you’re new to this plugin, you can check it out from the Seesmic marketplace.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 2.2.0.0 fixing TwitVid issues.

I’ve updated the Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin to 2.2.0.0 which fixes some issues when showing TwitVid videos. It should automatically update to the latest version. You can install the plugin from the Seesmic marketplace.

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.2.0.0 with added Vimeo support!

So it’s been a long time coming but I just updated the Video Preview plugin to 1.2 which adds Vimeo support. I also made some changes in how it parses the text so that everything gets run through the unshort.me unshortening service which should provide much more support for shortened URLs.

Go here to download it and let me know how it goes!

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.1.2.1 to address erroneous incompatibility issue

Apparently an issue arose around SD2′s newest version reporting an incompatibility issue with the Video Preview plugin. This update addresses this by correctly specifying the full SDP version in the assembly… so no changes to the user here, simple backend maintenance stuff to alleviate this single issue. To download, head over to my project page here or the just grab it off of the Seesmic Desktop Marketplace (auto-updates to the latest).

Seesmic Desktop 2 Plugin Video Preview plugin updated to 1.1.2.0 adding unshort.me support

I updated the Video Preview plugin to 1.1.2.0. This adds support for URL shortening services that are supported by unshort.me. To download, head over to my project page here or the just grab it off of the Seesmic Desktop Marketplace (old version is the initial download but it auto-updates to the latest).

Seesmic Video Preview plugin updated to 1.0.0.2

Just a quick update, I updated the Video Preview plugin to version 1.0.0.2. It was leaving out the underline “_” character when they were used in a YouTube URL which was causing them not to show. Of course, this is the second time I’ve had to fix this issue I promise I got em both now….

Seesmic Video Preview plugin updated to 1.0.0.1 to fix a small bug

Just a quick update, I updated the Video Preview plugin to version 1.0.0.1. It was leaving out the dash “-” character when they were used in a YouTube URL which was causing them not to show. Sorry about that!

New Project – Seesmic Plugin Video Preview (view Youtube and Twitvid videos in Seesmic)

So I just completed my second plugin for Seesmic Desktop. The Video Preview plugin allows the user to view Youtube and Twitvid videos where links are posted without leaving Seesmic. Now, there’s a preview thumbnail of the video shown at the bottom of the post in the timeline and, which the user clicks it, a dialog will be show allowing the user to view the video. You can read more details here about the plugin or just dive in and download it here.

Let me know if y’all have any problems with it!

New project – Seesmic Plugin for TinyURL.com URL shortening service

I’ve been a user of Seesmic desktop ever since it was announced and released around PDC09. I found it to be an amazing Silverlight product and honestly, with the recent new release of v2, it’s a great Twitter and Facebook application to use. I saw Tim Heuer‘s work around plugin development for Seesmic and wanted to give it a whirl so I cooked up a very easy implementation for a URL shortener plugin using the TinyURL URL shortening service. I provide both the plugin binary file itself and the source code here.

I hope this is just the beginning of a lot more meaningful plugin development for Seesmic… I love the software and the SDK for plugin development is awesome as well!