Seesmic jumps on Twitter’s new location feature with map previews
Seesmic, the Twitter client that was the first to incorporate lists, has now jumped on the social network’s new location-tagged tweets. You can roll over tweets that have a special marker to show a map of where they are, without ever leaving the client.
Twitter finally rolled out its location application programming interface earlier today. It lets you pair a tweet with data about where you are. It could be extremely valuable for real-time data about… Continue Reading
Seesmic and TweetDeck: Two ways to immerse yourself in your social nets
Do you still use Facebook and Twitter by opening facebook.com and twitter.com in a browser? Or, have you tried using a desktop client to organize all the incoming status updates, tweets, comments, and other notifications into one little window on the side of your computer’s screen? Do you hope to find a way to shove all that data out of the way of your work?
My advice: Give up. What you need to do is go… Continue Reading
Twitter attacks intensify ten-fold; apps struggle to stay up
Third-party Twitter applications struggled to keep up as attacks on the microblogging network grew more aggressive for a second day. The company’s defensive measures put a damper on users who tweet via third-party apps and SMS text messaging.
Twitter’s Ryan Sarver, who is the product manager for the platform team, said at about 3 a.m. Pacific Time that the attacks intensified to almost 10 times what they were yesterday.
“In order for us to defend from the attack… Continue Reading
Video sites race to win Twitter users
Have you created an account on a video sharing site yet? Don’t bother. Popular sites including twitvid.io and 12seconds.tv are dropping their signup requirements. Instead, they’ll let you login with a Twitter username and password.
12seconds founder Sol Lipman explained in a video posted this morning how the site’s new strategy works: Twitter users login with their Twitter username. 12seconds creates a member account for them. They can then post video clips up to twelve seconds… Continue Reading
Twhirl goes into a user feedback cocoon and is reborn as Seesmic Desktop
I’m here at headquarters of San Francisco video blogging company Seesmic for the launch of Seesmic Desktop, the next step in the company’s product offering.
The product is a revaming of the popular Twhirl, which was one of the first third-party Twitter clients, and which Seesmic purchased last year and has continued development on. Twhirl is another one of those services that makes it easier to tweet, for example letting you shorten URLs in your messages…. Continue Reading
Desktop status updates: Facebook’s latest move against Twitter
Facebook has been redesigning its entire product around getting people to tell their friends what they’re up to — just as microblogging service Twitter does. Facebook’s latest step in that direction came today with the addition of status updates that appear on third-party desktop applications.
A couple of popular Twitter desktop app makers, TweetDeck and Seesmic, are already showing off the new feature. TweetDeck now lets you read a live stream of your friends’ status updates… Continue Reading
Aka-aki, Wubud and other startups will demo at Mobile 2.0
Mobile 2.0, a conference for mobile web developers, has announced the lineup of companies that will present at its Nov. 3 event. The one-day conference in San Francisco will focus on strategies to make mobile apps and services thrive during the economic downturn.
We’ve covered many of these startups already — and some have demoed at past Mobile 2.0 events — but since most of them are based in Europe, this should be a good opportunity… Continue Reading
Roundup: European leaders agree on rescue plan, Microsoft to release Silverlight 2 and more
Here’s the latest action:
European leaders agree on financial rescue plan — The move will involve the injection of billions of Euros into banks in Germany, France and other countries. It was spurred by a similar British plan announced last week.
Memeorandum Colors visualizes political bias — The new Firefox extension/Greasemonkey script identifies the bias of the different publications on political news aggregator site Memeorandum.
Microsoft to release Silverlight 2 on Monday? — The company says it has “a significant announcement… Continue Reading
12seconds wants everyone to talk like a pirate; more invites for all
In case you forgot, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day today — a day when a lot of websites and online networks get into the pirate spirit (check out Google Pirate). Recently launched 12seconds, a video website that limits all video posts to 12 seconds, is taking the opportunity to bring some extra attention to its service, still in private alpha.
12seconds is granting everyone access to its services for just one day. Any visitors… Continue Reading
12seconds extends its 15 minutes of fame with an API
12seconds has a goal: It wants to be the go-to platform for video status updates. In order to make a good platform, you need a good application programming interface (API). Today, 12seconds is launching that API and announcing its first three partners.
TweetDeck, an Adobe Air client for services including Twitter, Blippr, a site that does short-form reviews, and Phreadz, a startup that does threaded video conversations, are the first three partners to use the 12seconds… Continue Reading
12seconds aims to be the true Twitter of video
When online video messaging service Seesmic first emerged last year it was dubbed by many (including us) as the “Twitter of video.” It’s an easy comparison to make, both are micro-messaging services of sorts. However it’s obvious that Seesmic is much more time-consuming than Twitter. Seesmic videos can be several minutes long. That’s an eternity in a Twitter world limited to 140 characters or less. A new video messaging service called 12seconds aims to fix… Continue Reading
Seesmic raises another $6M for video comments
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Seesmic, a startup that lets users post short video comments and snippets, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. The new round was led by Omidyar Network, the firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Wellington Partners.
The San Francisco company has been dubbed the “Twitter of video” — through its platform, users can easily record and post short video segments to their blogs, social networks or to the Seesmic site itself…. Continue Reading
How to mainstream a web app in a hurry: Get Spielberg, Lucas and Ford aboard
I still believe Twitter is on the slow road to mainstream adoption, but today another micro-messaging service, Seesmic, took what should be a big leap in that direction. The service, which uses video rather than text to convey messages, has had perhaps even more questions than Twitter about its usefulness. Perhaps not anymore.
This morning The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss posted some questions aimed at the cast and crew of the new film Indiana Jones and the… Continue Reading
Because you asked for it (right?): Disqus and Seesmic team up for video comments
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There’s another company jumping on the video comments bandwagon. Disqus, the startup whose system powers comments for more than 13,000 blogs (including VentureBeat), is adding video through a partnership with Seesmic.
You can see the system at work on Fred Wilson’s blog. There aren’t any particularly fancy or groundbreaking features yet — Disqus’ Daniel Ha (no relation to the writer of this post) says the company wanted to keep things fairly straightforward so it would be… Continue Reading
Seesmic jilts the browser to take a twirl with Twhirl
Seesmic, the messaging service that’s often called the Twitter of video, has reinforced that comparison by acquiring the Twitter application Twhirl, which lets people read and post to Twitter directly from their desktop.
Twhirl, which is made with Adobe AIR, has the look and feel of an instant messaging client, and Seesmic will use that characteristic to its advantage, making it easier for people to shoot video comments and replies back and forth to each other.
The… Continue Reading
Seesmic, the Twitter of video, gradually opening for public use — unveils investors
Seesmic, yet another video-sharing site that encourages quick, conversational clips that can be recorded and replied to, is opening up for public use, with the waiting period for membership requests down to less than a day. It has also unveiled the names of some high-profile backers — even as it gets slammed by critics (here and here, for example).
Seesmic has been dubbed the “Twitter of video,” for the short snippets of video people post of… Continue Reading
14 ways to broadcast yourself…live
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Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies competing in this sector.
Justin.TV, featuring a live cam of a guy named Justin in San Francisco, helped spearhead the new wave of popularity, but a host of other companies are battling for… Continue Reading