Comments on: Seesmic Relaunches Website; Video Service Pushed to the Bottom

By: Seesmic’s Evolution Is the Latest Example of Innovation in Action « I’m Not Actually a Geek

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:03:03 +0000

[...] to crack. That apparently was hurting Seesmic’s video conversation efforts. As Allen Stern first noted, Seesmic is now de-emphasizing the video platfrom, putting its resources into its growing desktop [...]

By: Seesmic Shifts | Sean Percival's Blog

Seesmic Shifts | Sean Percival's Blog — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:15 +0000

[...] CenterNetworks [...]

By: Rob Blatt

Rob Blatt — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:05:10 +0000

You should note that Loic spoke TOTALLY out of turn in regards to 12Seconds as noted in the 12Seconds blog: http://blog.12seconds.tv/post/130863638/seesmic-12seconds-and-social-video

“In light of Loic’s video, I wanted to point out two things:

1. The point of Seesmic (the video site) was not to allow people to share video on Twitter and Facebook. It was to have “video conversation.” It turns out the conversation is on Twitter. Video is a component of that conversation – so are other media types. We compete with Seesmic about as much as we compete with Hulu.

2. Our growth is not flat. We launched a year ago and we’ve had great growth. People like using 12seconds and we’re going to keep building our community. We’re pretty content. Social video isn’t easy but it’s worth it.”

By: Full Transcript of Loic Le Meur Explaining Why He’s Redirecting His Startup, Seesmic.com — Mixergy.com

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:14:40 +0000

[...] you CenterNetworks (love your site Allen) and VentureBeat (great meeting you Matt) for pointing this video out to [...]

By: Seesmic: No Business in “Video Conversations”

Seesmic: No Business in “Video Conversations” — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:41:39 +0000

[...] its social aggregation tool, Seesmic Desktop, and associated products. CenterNetworks had the news this morning after noticing that video was pushed way down to the bottom of Seesmic’s site in [...]

By: AnthonyF.

AnthonyF. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:53:39 +0000

Thanx for responding :)

By: Loic

Loic — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:40:27 +0000

Anthony, “Why isn’t there a Nokia/s60 version of Seesmic desktop yet?” because Symbian is a pain to develop on sorry to say, and we have limited resources, so we focus on the fastest growing browsing device, the iphone.

By: AnthonyF.

AnthonyF. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:20:50 +0000

I think striking what’s hot (apps and iPhone) is the smart thing to do but it looks like he ignoring his local European market. Why isn’t there a Nokia/s60 version of Seesmic desktop yet?

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:39:22 +0000

Well im glad that Loic is looking at his business and saying “hey, this isn’t working.. but this is, lets go for it.” Something that I think a lot of start-ups don’t get at times.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:03 +0000

thanks for the reply loic

By: Loic

Loic — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:32:17 +0000

our video site is still fully available at video.seesmic.com what our users expected is that I announced it before making that change but we talked since then I don’t think it’s such a big deal since the site is here. I am investigating now the link issues you report, thanks for that.

Video will be a first class citizen in our future seesmic.com site we are working very hard on.