This is both a question to the community and a test of seesmic’s new WordPress video conversation plugin, so please do reply using video if you can!
Currently there’s 73 sidebar users, so I thought it would be good to ask…
To get the ball rolling, I like the sidebar because I can leave it open while [...]

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Tagging your seesmic videos is a topic which has been discussed by the community on many an occasion. When the subject was brought up again a few days ago, I decided to have a play with some code and implemented tagging on the sidebar. Here’s how to use it:

To view all tags, click the “Tags” [...]

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Did you know you can have the sidebar as a desktop application?
Mozilla Labs Prism enables you to create desktop applications from webpages and works particularly well with the seesmic sidebar as it is a webpage displayed in your sidebar.
If you have Firefox 3 then you can install Prism as an extension otherwise you can download [...]

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Thanks to Matthew on the dev team for getting the ‘Inbox’ timeline working again with the new API.
I’ve also changed the ‘Sent’ timeline so you can see private direct messages you’ve sent.
For both of these, you’ll need to log out then back in to the sidebar to see them working.

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Firefox 3 is now up to beta 5 and nearly ready for release!
Until version 0.2 of the sidebar code comes out, here’s how to get the sidebar working (and many other extensions) working in the beta version:

Type about:config into Firefox’s address bar and click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make [...]

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On Sunday the seesmic API server went down and a new server was brought online earlier than expected along with an updated version of the seesmic API.
In-house infrastructure developer Bear helped me get the sidebar functionality working as much as possible with the new API but we still haven’t figured out getting the Inbox timeline [...]

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Thanks to seesmic resident and graphic designer Tracy Apps we have a new header image.
Tracy literally pulled out the stops as she is currently migrating ISPs and delayed her ‘unplugging’ in order to help out!
I’m also grateful we don’t have to look at my ugly mug with my eyes closed and now have [...]

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At last, a whole site dedicated to everyone’s favorite sidebar for firefox, flock, and now seamonkey!
The sidebar allows you to watch conversations from seesmic whilst you continue to browse other sites. It’s also got some extra features like the ability to add website links to your posts, hide qik videos, and soon it will be [...]

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