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As I've mentioned before, the new Habari Silo functionality opens up a wide area of potential uses. The first Silo Integration was of course flickr, but now Chris J. Davis has brought it to the next level by integrating Viddler.

For those unaware of the Viddler service, it's basically a web application that lets you upload and share video content from within your browser.

The ViddlerSilo Overview video shows how the integration works, and Chris has also made available two videos that were actually recorded from inside the Habari admin interface, 1 and 2

Unfortunately the code is still not ready for it's initial public release until Viddler make their public API available, but the demonstration videos mentioned above really show how Habari can make publishing your digital content much easier.

I imagine that there will be similar Silo setups for other services. I'm not a podcaster, but I can definitely see similar usage scenarios for Podcasters. Imagine being able to record directly via the Habari admin interface and instantly publish it.

Habari is destined for glory in 2008, personally I can't wait to see what else is in store.

I've been playing around with creating a couple of very small Habari plugins lately and it's great fun as well as good PHP experience. So far the only thing that has been made public is a Technorati plugin that fetches your incoming link count, incoming blog count and rank and displays them on the Habari admin dashbord.

This has made me come up with a few other plugin concepts I would like to see implemented in Habari:

• Email Notification
  A plugin that notifies you, via email, for pre-defined events on your install. It could be comments, posts and other events from the internal Activity log.
• Twitter
  A plugin that allows you to have your own Twitter admin panel inside the Habari admin. The plugin would allow you to post directly to Twitter, automatically post new content from your site to Twitter (I use twitterfeed for this now) and view your own/your friends timelines
• Google Calendar
  This would let you configure a Google Calendar to automatically receive new content from your site. New posts, comments etc. would be placed in a predefined Google Calendar for easy timeline tracking
• Data Insert
  There are lot of services around that wants you to integrate their code into your own theme. Examples are Google Analytics, ReInvigorate etc. A plugin that provides an interface where you can copy'n'paste the service code directly into some portion of your site, like in the header or footer, would make it easier to put these code snippets where they belong. This would also mean that the data gets inserted regardless of which theme you use.

I might try and do some of these myself, but if someone else out there gets a sudden urge to implement any of these I would be very happy!