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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.

I was laughing the entire time. And I’m sure most of you have seen it already, so I wasn’t going to blog it, but then I found this video commentary by Whit Scott, the cameraman in the video, and the video editor for the videos.

He is asking some important questions about what you are looking for in the video and he is looking for your feedback. So don’t comment here, go to his blog and comment.

He is doing a heck of a job by the way, kudos to Whit!

Here is the video in the off chance you have not seen it yet.

That’s a good question, Jeremy. Why yes, I think it is.

I just thought of this, because when I met Loic in Boston, he said they need lots of developers. Chris Brogan said, “which kinds?” And Loic responded, “All kinds.” Pretty vague And recently on a video where they announced they were working with Seesmic user dotBen. In that video Loic and Johann also gave the email address of info@seesmic.com to respond if you were interested in joining the developer team.

However, I have this question? What technology expertise are you looking for, Seesmic? Inquiring minds want to know.

Another, “Seesmic according to Jeremy Vaught,” post. I know you love ‘em.

Here is the genesis of this post. Because I still use my digital camera to take my videos for Seesmic, I have to get creative in how I get the videos into Seesmic. I can’t upload directly, so I use YouTube. What I get out of this is a hit counter. I like knowing how many people see my videos. Now clearly, I can’t tell if they are seen on YouTube or Seesmic, but that number is better then nothing, which is what Seesmic gives me.

Again, I realize Seesmic is still in development, and I don’t expect this right away, but while in the planning stages, I would like Johann to think on what I’m about to say. Because while I want a hit counter, ultimately I want more then that. What do I want? Well, everything really. And this could mean two things, ‘everything’ needs to be built into the Seesmic UI, or it needs to be available in the API and someone else can write it.

Ok, enough messing around Jeremy, what is this ‘everything’ of which you speak? Well, it’s everything. So think of everything in the context of a counter for your Seesmic videos. When you have thought of your ‘everything’, continue and I’ll give you an idea of my ‘everything’.

You are ready now?… good! Here is my everything. I’m sure you just thought of these things as well, but I would like to see a full analytics of people watching my videos. I would also like to see a fully analytics of how everyone as a whole watches videos. I don’t want this to be a popularity contest, but I want to know the numbers. I want to know how many people click on my video, but then don’t watch it. I want to know how long they watch it. To the end? Stop after 30 seconds? This is valuable information. Also, how are they watching? On a standalone player? In Seesmic, in my their friends tab, in the public timeline, in an embedded player and from what site?

If you don’t want to provide all this data yourself, Seesmic. Please put it into an API, so I can extract it, or a 3rd party site can extract it and supply me with that data.