Joost is a website where you can watch good-quality videos of music, TV shows, movies, etc, and where members can add their own or one of their friend's activities to a feed reader. Now you can add Joost to your Movable Type activity stream with a few simple steps.
You need to have Action Streams up and running on your site. I've tested using Movable Type 4.2 but it should work with 4.1.
Download the Joost Action Streams Plugin, and upload to the appropriate folders on your site.
If you installed the previous version 1.0, I recommend deleting Joost from "Other Profiles" and all the Joost entries in your Activity Stream. Version 1.1 adds favourites and uses XPath.
Drop the joost folder out of the plugin directory into /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/ and the joost folder inside mt-static/plugins into /mt-static/plugins/.
Configure the "Other Profiles" by adding the Joost service with your username, and if all went well, the list will appear in your activity stream.
Add the following CSS to include the Joost icon in your published feed, at the end of (or after) the action-streams.css:
.service-joost {
background-image: url(<mt:BlogURL>mt-static/plugins/joost/images/joost.png);
}
If anyone knows a way to add the thumbnails for the videos I'd love to know. In the meantime, enjoy.
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