This is old news if you follow this space closely, but Michael Krigsman posted an interview on the 2nd of January of an interview with Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur.
This interview is more on the business of Seesmic, so if that kind of thing strikes your fancy, it is a good read/listen.
I rediscovered, possibly the first blog entry about Seesmic. It is dated October 8th and it is a techcrunch post. I rescacnned it, there are some interesting things to note, but what I want in mention in this post, is something that doesn’t exist as of now.
The Following / Followers section.
Do you see it in the bottom right section? Two buttons. A following button, and a followers button. Earlier today (or was it late last night?) I saw that Loic Twittered that friends functionality is coming.
Which leads me to a soapbox rant I recently had. With friends, I hope rights management is soon to follow. It is also important to note what commenter Steve Rhode said:
Being open is good but being open with user controls and permission is even better. For now on Seesmic, I’ll probably be a lurker but not a poster.
I hope Seesmic takes that to heart, and builds this as quickly as possible. Steve is being true to his word, and I have not seen a video since he posted this. He may just be posting less often, but that is significant. Viva rights management!
Titled, “A French Twist in Silicon Valley,” it is a nice piece about Seesmic and the open way that Loic is running the company. It has nothing new to those of us familiar with Seesmic and Loic, but it is a good read.
It is important to review the good with the bad. And this is about as bad as it gets.
Loren from 1938media.com has a review. Don’t watch if you have sensitive ears, but he has a scathing review of Seesmic. There are lots of comments that follow, which are equally humorous.
Some of my favorite responses:
You are right about one thing. It’s a horrible waste of time to click on a video just to watch some douchebag talk about nothing. Sorry I clicked on this one.
Thank God for intellectual, witty, and FRENCH people that bring some happiness to this world!
And a point that I wanted to make, but chris brought it up first, so I’ll let him speak.
many good points except the flash issue. i totally disagree. the flash/flex framework IS the future, especially with the new papervision3D implementation. while flash loaders might be so 90’s, ajax has proved its limits in cross-browsers compatibility. get over it : web 3.0 won’t be ajax, but AS3/flex/papervision3D.
- chris (no link given)
In addition to what chris says, I want to point out and make sure everyone realizes that the loader is a part of Flex. Go go any new Flex site, and they have loaders.
Even the blog writer himself makes a valid point in the comments which made me chuckle:
I wasn’t starting a conversation, I didn’t ask for or care what your opinion is. I was lecturing you. Understand the difference?
Seesmic’s fearless leader chimes in a couple times, including the following:
nice way to get attention Loren, congratulations, I actually had some fun watching you, thank you for that, you should come back to Seesmic we would have interesting conversations.
A short roundup of Seesmicish photos from LeWeb3.
Loic Le Meur - Le Web 3 Organizer and founder of Seesmic
photo by Adam Tinworth, check his flickr for photo rights
Cathy Brooks - Seesmicer and employee of Seesmic
photo by Adam Tinworth, check his flickr for photo rights
Loic Le Meur action figure
Photo Credit RJ Freedlander
ummmm, not sure, heh
Photo Credit Altaide
I recently blogged about Orange on my blog, so it was nice to see them at Le Web 3.
Photo Credit Altaide
Shimon Perez
Photo Credit bjoern
Nicolas Sarkozy
Photo Credit Altaide
Vinvin of Seesmic
Photo Credit Altaide
Vinvin
Photo Credit Altaide
Kosso puts together a unique Seesmic RSS feed.
@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 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.
This is from a twitter. Can a twitter be blogworthy? Well, it depends on if the twitter is blogworthy. Makes sense right?
Well in this case, it is blogworthy. Loic just said in a Twitter that they hope threading in Seesmic will arrive next week. This is a fantastic development and something that Seesmic desperately needs.
text of tweet: @ResPres threads are coming on Seesmic, we hope next week http://tinyurl.com/29d75h
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.
A story by Chris Nuttall at FT.com.
This is not a Seesmic story per se. But more of a story on how Loic is running his company out in the open. And this is a story not covered much and I realized that I even forgot that is in indeed different.
Perhaps not quite as open as the early days of Justin.tv, but I agree, pretty open. Loic is twittering, and as the article mentions, putting up daily episodes on YouTube. He of course is also putting his discussions with the users of Seesmic out in the open, broadcast on Twitter and within Seesmic.
Additionally, the article also gives a description of Seesmic:
Seesmic is a tool that enables bloggers to add comments and start web conversations in video with one another - an extension of the way they currently add text responses to blog posts.
The only reason I mention it is because I love to see everyone’s description of Seesmic. No two are the same, and it is quite difficult to put into words exactly what it is.