Posts Tagged ‘ seesmic ’

Seesmic Announces Layoffs

Oct 10th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Video

Tough times. Tough decisions.also read my blog post http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/10/tough-times-tou.html
Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur today announced layoffs at video social network startup Seesmic.
“As a company, we have felt the need to get Seesmic ready for what most are anticipating to be a bleak economic outlook for the considerable time going forward,” says Le Meur. “In order [...]



Seesmic Adds Video Comments To Movable Type Blogs

Jun 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Software, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments.
Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites.
The MT plug in is a free [...]



Seesmic Lands Additional $6M Investment, Launches New Player

Jun 20th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Video

Video conversation / social networking community Seesmic moved out of beta and opened up to the general public last week. The company launched in the fall of 2007, and raised $6 million in its “A” series of funding late this winter.
Today, Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur announced that the company has raised an additional $6 million [...]



Twhirl Twitter Über-Client Gets Update

Jun 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Microblogging

twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter & Friendfeed, has been updated. It looks like it’s moving in the direction of becoming a general social networking client.
According to it the official announcement:
We took our time to make Friendfeed a lot more usable and add a few very nice features, including rooms support for Friendfeed, auto-throttling for [...]



Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas On Seesmic

May 17th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video

The stars & creators of the latest Indiana Jones movie answered questions today via the microvlogging community Seesmic.
Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur explains:
The original idea was to have journalists around the World ask private questions to the actors and they would answer in private, as a way to give access to them. Instead of a [...]



Is Google Going After Seesmic?

May 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Microblogging, Podcasting Software, Video

Google has released a new free Mac OS X app, Vidnik, that’s designed to make it easy for users to record video, add a Title, Tags & Description and upload it to YouTube:
You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a video comment to attach to an existing YouTube [...]



Seesmic Raises $6 Million

Feb 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Podcasting Services, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Video blog/video conversation site Seesmic is announcing tomorrow that it has raised $6 million in funding.
The investment is lead by Atomico - an investment group founded by Niklas Zennstr??m and Janus Friis. The complete list of investors is:

Michael Arrington - Founder, TechCrunch
Steve Case - Co-Founder and former CEO and Chairman, AOL
Jeff Clavier - Managing Partner, [...]



New Site WeGame Like Seesmic For Machinima

Jan 15th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Software, Video

WeGame is a new site that’s a bit like Seesmic for machinima. (Machinima are animated movies made using video games.)
The site lets you download a client (Windows only) that lets you record video from a variety of games, including:
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
C&C 3
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4
CoH Series
Crysis
CS 1.6
CS: Source
DoD: Source
Everquest 2
Garry’s Mod
GTA Series
Guild [...]