Seesmic
Summary
Seesmic is a San Francisco based startup company that develops social networking clients for sites like Twitter and Facebook that run on the web, mobile devices, and the desktop. It was created by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur.Starting out life as a video blogging website, its original aim was to make video uploading from webcams easier to promote online video conversations. Seesmic made its debut at the Demo tech conference where it was called the "Twitter of video". It had 20,000 users and 70,000 viewers per month as of 2008. On April 3, 2008, Seesmic announced that it had purchased Twhirl, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client.In 2009, Loc Le Meur, Seesmic's founder, announced that the video portion of the site had stagnated as it struggled to attract new users.
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Reed Midem acquires LeWeb tech conference
In its eight years’ operation, the LeWeb conference has been known for many things — a spectacular falling out with TechCrunch, chilly halls and, latterly, as “Europe’s most established tech conference“.
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Daily Must Reads, September 6, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Journal Register Co. 's declares second bankruptcy in 3 years (Nieman Lab)2. Twitter announces tool that embeds timelines of tweets on web pages (The Next Web)3. New Twitter API drops support for RSS (Mashable)4. HootSuite acquires Seesmic (VentureBeat)5.
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Daily Must Reads, March 23, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. The nation's most influential media outlets based on Bitly data (Forbes) 2.
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Does Facebook penalise you for using third party applications?
What’s this? Facebook updates made using third party applications such as Hootsuite are given less exposure than those made via the Facebook client?.
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Seesmic Founder: Michael Arrington Wrote Negative Stories About Us Despite Investing
Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic. com, has some words for everyone who believes Michael Arrington won't write negative things about startups he's invested in: That's a load of "B-S-. ".
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Twitter Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Users (More Than Half On Mobile)
Twitter has not been very forthcoming on user numbers, but today it gave a shower of stats and data to mark a milestone in its growth: 100 million monthly active users. It’s a measure, perhaps, of which social networks see each other as the key competition: the news comes just one day after numbers came out allegedly giving details about revenues at Facebook—$1.
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Seesmic Flips The Switch On Its Latest Pivot (CRM)
Seesmic, the startup that makes a suite of popular social media tools, is ready to launch its next product, Seesmic CRM, which will let companies interact with customers in social media.
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Ochocinco Makes A Startling New Friend
It looks like Chad Ochocinco has made a new friend. . . and his name is Glenn Beck!.
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Google+ : Who You Know Changes Everything
I'm coming to the conclusion that it's very hard to make sweeping statements about Google+ right now.
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Our Tweets From 06-21-11
RIM has apparently started handing out pink slips, just in time for Canada Day next week: http://bit. ly/kVD26o — @tomkrazit Japanese mobile carrier kddi buys a stake in a location-aware mobile game, Colopl http://ow. ly/5mBjv — @mocoNews Another nail in the coffin: Seesmic's dropping support for BlackBerry to focus on WP7, iOS, Android http://t.
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