Seesmic

Seesmic is a web application being developed 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 Twh... more

Seesmic is a web application being developed 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, the founder Loic Le Meur announced that the video portion of the site had stagnated as it struggled to attract new users. He refocused the site, changing the objective from creating a new video social networking tool to creating a site that would instead aggregate content from other social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook . The video site, whilst remaining available, was relegated to a subdomain of the new site. LeMeur moved from Paris to San Francisco to launch Seesmic due to the... less