Seesmic Blog

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@seanpercival of Mahalo just twittered that w00t is the word of the year by Merriam-Websters dictionary. I only mention this because a few weeks ago I remember watching a passionate plea from Seth (The Obstructionist) in which he banned the word. For more interesting links on this subject, check out the Mahalo page on the subject.

Hilarious sentence from Myles Eftos.

“Which brings me to the awful realisation that we, much like the way Viagra emails are an everyday part of ourlives, will just have to put up with this crap until the Internet self-implodes under the bloat of another loser posting a video diary to Seesmic under the misconception that anyone cares.”

But he does make a point about rights that I raised here.

Along with Vinvin and Johanne, Loic Le Meur, the CEO of Seesmic, is back in Paris for LeWeb3 which he organized. And I recently learned is mandatory english, which is very interesting. Interesting to me anyway. A Seesmic related video for that is here.

A Seesmic review from Victor Cajiao of Typical Mac User, a friend of mine from Orange County Podcasters.

New Loic.tv video. Giselle made me yawn at the end, but you have to watch to the end to get your own yawn.

And that is enough for now. I’m off to increase my interweblebrityness.

Just askin’

Is it a publicity thing? I did notice that Loic twittered her very first post, so there is some connection there. I’m guessing something interesting will happen when she ‘arrives’ in the Seesmic office.

If you know something, fill me in, I’m baffled.

I was on Seesmic earlier this evening, and fred2boro and I got into a discussion about rights on Seesmic. So allow me to summarize our brief conversation.

Right now, every video is assumed published, and can be redistributed (hence the embed link). Fair use? Not necessarily, but you are putting your stuff out there for all to see.

We need more rights management. And so does Seesmic.

(from here on out is my commentary, and not necessarily the opinions of fred2boro)

huh? We need more rights management. And so does Seesmic? I’m making a blanket statement for the web. Just like Flickr allows you to make a picture as public, friends, or family. That’s a start. Not many social networks provide this, but they should. And I think Seesmic is a prime place to provide this.

So this is what I think. Seesmic needs a flickr type system as I described above. Additionally, I would also like to see a way to send a personal message to someone. Effectively an email sent but with your video. So that is one level. One on one. Next, family. Clearly this all goes way past follow, which is also valuable, in fact, a different system all together. So family, I can mark people as family, and I can allow only family to see it. Same with friends. But I can also make things public, and that would be exactly how things are right now.

Your thoughts? Comments? You see things differently? You think I’m a nut? I would love to hear about it.

I just realized that I have never mentioned the Seesmic Facebook group. In my previous post, I mention the Seesmic Cafe group. If you are on Facebook, (if you are on Seesmic I’m assuming you are) You should head on over and join up.

Community is only valuable when you’re in it.

A collection of videos I found very interesting done by NewMediaJim at the Lotus Lounge apparently at a benefit to raise money for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. Those non-profits sure know how to party
There are so many videos, I would fill up the page by posting them all in the browser, so I’m just going to give you the standalone link. Also did my best to hear who is in each video. If you have better information or a keener ear then I do, please leave a comment and I’ll update the post.

Intro - Technoliday party
#1 - NewMediaJim and old friend #2 - Justin Thorp
#3 - Viewpoint about learning
#4 - ??? & Ryan
#5 - Greater DC Cares
#6 - Charlotte & NewMediaJim
#7 - Laura Cotton & NewMediaJim
#8 - Toni Lynn (craftynation.com)
#9 - One Laptop per child
#10 - Victoria

And I found this too by the Seesmic crew: Congratulations WASHINGTON!!!!

Clearly there is more to this Seesmic Cafe then meets the eye. There is also a Facebook group for Seesmic Cafe, with Jim Long (NewMediaJim) as an officer. Something to keep an eye on for sure.

Not sure how much disclosure is necessary, but I’ve known David for a couple of years since we were in the Orange County Podcasters together.

I won’t say much about the widget, but to say watch the video. Only good on a Mac, but a fun adaptation of Seesmic. Nice job David, what else do you have?

In and earlier post I had talked about how the menu broke often for me. Well, now it is time to report that I haven’t had any trouble for days with the menu, and not only it, it is updating automatically

Now, this could be a couple of things. I have installed the SDK for Flex as I’m learning it now, and in there you get a debug version of Flash 9, and perhaps this updated version simply works better. And I am of course on Linux, which can be nutty to deal with, especially on new software like Flex.

So yeah! It is updating automatically, as I am sitting here, I see new videos dropping in that were posted, ‘just now.’ This is a totally new thing for me, and I like it, so forgive me if this has been happening for you the whole time.

Great job Johann, on the whole, things are looking much better.

Just came across this post by Marcel de Ruiter. It’s not a profound post, but sure struck a chord with me. 1. The shows that are put together for Loic.tv (Seesmic Day xx: topic) are endlessly entertaining. And 2. they provide key insights into how to start a company. It’s like when my kids play games that teach them about math. They are having so much fun, they forget they are learning things. We are having so much fun being entertained by Vinvin and Loic, that we aren’t realizing that they are putting into practice the idea of a company being transparent, built in the open.

I was going to write which rule this applies to in Loic’s recent “10 rules to launch a startup today” but pretty much every rule applies to what I’m describing here. So Seesmic is, in a way, a running example of the things Loic believes in.

He’s having fun, we’re having fun, but if we take a step back, there are lots of lessons to be learned here.

Thanks to Christine for your followup! I’m posting your video below.

UPDATE: I follow up your followup: the best bit is at the end when my Firefox crashes on video

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Here is what is happening. You see the videos in the menu, some have a thumbnail of the video next to them, and the others just have an icon with a webcam, and what appears to be a red circle with a white line in it, traditionally meaning stop, or error. The videos with the thumbnail play, the ones with the stop icon, won’t play. This just started happening. You will also notice that the selected video has not loaded, otherwise the progress bar would be gray showing how far it has loaded in the browser.

It is also happening in the public timeline. Not as much as in the shows. It is not YouTube videos. Maybe it is uploaded .flv files. Ahhh, that’s obvious now, and has to be it.

UPDATE: Also embedding the Seesmic I did on the subject:

And a video that won’t play for me, does the below video play for you?