I came accross Seesmic, a new video social network, when I subscribed to Loic LeMeur's Twitter feed today. I'll be metting Loic LeMeur at LeWeb3 next week but I wanted to check out what Seesmic.com is:
It looks to me like Seesmic is an application that allows people to do a video version of Twitter - and to mash up different people, interacting, as if, in real time (see above).
There's also a Wikipedia page on Seesmic - something that just happened today and Michael Arrington wrote about Seesmic at TechCrunch about 2 weeks ago in a post titled -100 Seesmic Accounts, And A Disclosure
"..One of the hardest to get beta accounts right now is Seesmic
, Loic Le Meur’s new startup that went into private beta in early October.
The service, which can most easily be described as a video Twitter, is popular with the 300 people who are beta testing it so far. Le Meur says that more than half of them are extremely active, and 200 videos are being posted daily."
One thing we can be sure of, that Seesmic's user base, when it really is expanded and takes off, will evolve other uses for it, beyond what we're seeing in the clips we can look at today - just as Twitter has ended up being used for all kinds of things beyond what it was originally created for.
Arrington also became an investor in Seesmic - which must be saying something about what he thinks will happen with this young, dynamic service:
"…At some point, Le Meur says, existing beta holders will be able to invite others to join as well. As soon as that functionality goes live we’ll add Seesmic to InviteShare
Disclosure: I have also become an investor in Seesmic and have updated my disclosures on our about page."
Naturally, I signed up to be a beta tester and my HP Laptop (as opposed to my ThinkPad) does have a built in Video Cam.
Here's an interview with Loic Le Meur on Seesmic given on November 1st.
In fact, it might have been fun to have been a beta tester at LeWeb3 and have used Seesmic there - and I'm sure that Loic Le Meur will probably announce something there related to Seesmic as Michael Arrington will also be attending.
And of course, I read TechCrunch every day.
As far as the Seesmic Video service goes - my guess is that Video is a very data and bandwidth intensive application and I'm wondering how scalable it's going to be. On the other hand, if Google could buy Urchin and make it into Google Analytics and then scale it out to over a million accounts - there's no reason why Seesmic could not succeed on a much wider scale - if the infrastructure needed to support this kind of application is in place first.
And yes, I'll try to find out more about Seesmic and other stuff when I go to Paris later on this week.
