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Seesmic is a social discussion forum that features recorded video clip chat. In other words, you chat using video clips instead of text. This article teaches you how to add a Seesmic widget and a video comment plugin to your WordPress blog.

1. If you still don’t have a Seesmic account, go to Seesmic Website and register one for free. They are currently in Alpha and you’ll need to have an invitation code to get your account up. But don’t worry, you should get the code in 24 hours or so after giving them your email address.

2. After your account is set up, log in with your user name and password at http://seesmic.com/home and

you’ll see three links on the top-right: Home, Widgets and Log Out. Click on Widgets and follow the simple instructions to get the code to be used with your blog. This widget displays your recent Seesmic videos in a timeline and it works with both WordPress and other systems. To see a live demonstration, look at the ‘My Latest Videos’ in my sidebar!

3. Seesmic just released a WordPress plugin which enables you to post video blogs and your visitors to leave video comments regardless of whether they have a Seesmic account. At the time of writing, the plugin is only available through Seesmic. For full instructions and download, visit http://wiki.seesmic.com/Wp-plugin. To see it in action, simply leave a comment for this post.

A few Twitter users reported today that they were seeing partially localized text on Twitter web interface. Currently, localized text strings are often mixed with English, and text language changes according to your browser settings.

The following picture shows Chinese with English when I used Safari Chinese version:

Here’s another screen shot showing French mixed with English when I viewed the page with my French version of FireFox:

And I have a feeling that they are still testing the pages before going on with the full-scale internationalization – anyway a nice development out there!

Library Project（中华捐书会）is a charity founded by Thomas Stader, that aims to help the school children and orphans living in poor rural areas of China to gain access to good books.

Florence Xu, the Event Manager from the Library Project made a brief introduction to the charity at the Boomtown Beijing’s screening on April 20th. All proceeds from the screening went to this organization.

The book selection process includes listening to children’s opinions about what they’d like to read. They choose high quality books and some of them are printed with Pinyin (phonetic Chinese) to aid reading.

If you are interested in learning more about the project, please visit Library-Project.org.

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