SezWho integration

[Michael C. Harris]

Thanks to Andy C's continued Habari evangelism, we've been approached
by SezWho (http://sezwho.com) to develop a plugin using their plugin
development kit (http://sezwho.com/szpdkMain.php), which is currently
in beta. I've not used SezWho. Does anyone have any experience with
it? Obviously integration with these things is a good thing for
Habari's profile.

I plan to have a look at it later in the week, with the aim of a
plugin by next week, but if anyone else has got the time to put
something together sooner, please do.

--
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog

[Michael C. Harris]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:19:54PM +1000, Michael C. Harris wrote:
> Thanks to Andy C's continued Habari evangelism, we've been approached
> by SezWho (http://sezwho.com) to develop a plugin using their plugin
> development kit (http://sezwho.com/szpdkMain.php), which is currently
> in beta. I've not used SezWho. Does anyone have any experience with
> it? Obviously integration with these things is a good thing for
> Habari's profile.
>
> I plan to have a look at it later in the week, with the aim of a
> plugin by next week, but if anyone else has got the time to put
> something together sooner, please do.

Apparently CrunchGear uses SezWho. Here's an example.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/19/microsoft-politely-points-out-the-xbox-360-version-of-gta-iv-doesnt-have-a-pesky-5-minute-install-time-like-the-ps3-version/

[Ali B.]

Great News Michael!
Thank you and Andy C. This will definitely contribute in advertising Habari.

--
Ali B / dmondark
http://www.awhitebox.com

[Andy C]

SezWho is a comment rating system with profiles etc. I used it on my
old WP blog and quite liked it.

Personally, I see Disqus in use a lot more (which I install on my
Habari blog using a JS code snippet) bu SezWho are fighting back with
their recent 2.0 version.

Howveer, I still think a SezWho plugin for Habari would be valuable as
lots of WP bloggers don't like Disqus (because the comments are stored
on Disqus' servers) whereas SezWho just overlays on top and comments
are still stored in the database.

SezWho, Disqus etc are newsworthy, gaining traction and early adopters
(i.e potential Habari users) will be looking for availability of these
tools.

All IMHO of course.

[Matt Read]

> Thanks to Andy C's continued Habari evangelism, we've been approached
> by SezWho (http://sezwho.com) to develop a plugin using their plugin
> development kit (http://sezwho.com/szpdkMain.php), which is currently
> in beta. I've not used SezWho. Does anyone have any experience with
> it? Obviously integration with these things is a good thing for
> Habari's profile.

Too bad their sdk is a mess; I wish they would publish a public api. I
looked into this before, but was turned off by their sdk. anyway, the
service looks pretty cool, I hope someone does the plugin :) I can
help with whatever needs doing...

[Michael C. Harris]

We're in a position to give that feedback now. Any chance you could
document why you think the PDK is a mess?

[Matt Read]

> We're in a position to give that feedback now. Any chance you could
> document why you think the PDK is a mess?

Last time I checked there were absolutley _no docs_ to show you which
methods to define for the "SMPWrapper" and how they interacted with
the so called "SMP". Maybe that has changed, but they say the sdk is
document and to just look at the code, but I don't want to spend 6hrs
trying to figure out someone elses logic...

anyway, that's just "IMAO" ;)

[Michael C. Harris]

Cool. They have some documentation now (though it is a Word document
saved as HTML. Shudder.)

> anyway, that's just "IMAO" ;)

Often the best kind of O :)