[by Jeremy Vaught, Community Blogger - Seesmic]
Loic le Meur, the Founder and CEO of Seesmic was recently on the Gillmore Gang,
a popular podcast with some of the most well known personalities in New
Media. The show's tag line is "Conversations in technology and social
media."
The direct link to the show, including a transcript, can be found here. I encourage you to listen to the show or read the transcript, but allow me to highlight a few things that apply directly to this blog.
Steve Gillmor: "Do you have any announcements as to what you might be doing with Silverlight in terms of Twhirl?"
Loic le Meur: "Yea, we don’t have an announcement on Twhirl, but we have a
partnership with Microsoft where seesmic will be the first mobile
client on Silverlight, which should be launched in May. It’s a
partnership that started in Mixx in Vegas. Microsoft helped us and
created with a company called Tequila-Rapido in France, a mobile client
for Seesmic which, entirely on Silverlight, lets you record a video,
friend someone, and get a reply entirely on mobile. Given this
partnership, we’re busy talking about Twhirl as well, on Silverlight,
but I have no announcement to make right now."
Loic le Meur:
"We were about to build an AIR client for Seesmic as well, because I
believe that people will use video if we make it super simple to use–
if it’s on your desktop and you don’t have to go anywhere, then you’re
likely to use it more. I started talking to Twhirl; I approached Marco
Kaiser, the creator of Twhirl, through Twitter. I asked if he would be
interested in integrating with Seesmic, and he said yes, and we started
talking and I found two frustrations from him, which I immediately
understand. He wanted to work full-time on Twhirl, because it’s his
passion and he was doing some other projects which were not that
interesting, and so he joined full-time, and now Twhirl is part of
Seesmic.
The two reasons, to answer your point– the first
one is to make video simpler and we need an integrated experience. You
can leave a comment on FriendFeed or star something on FriendFeed
through Twhirl. The second reason, now coming to what’s more important
for you, is that as a Twitter user, I feel that we should use it
better. One of the things which is missing right now is the track
function, which you can’t get on anything else than GTalk.
This is an announcement for you on the show,
Steve, that we’re adding XMPP to Twhirl, which I think is very
important. It’s mostly driven by the fact that we love Twitter, and
what we do is very complementary. So we’ll have XMPP on Seesmic and
Twhirl. For the people who may not understand what it is
exactly—basically, it will allow you, through Twhirl, to get updates
live pushed to you without having Twhirl go through the Twitter API and
check on the delay you’ve decided. It will allow to you push unlimited
updates, because right now on the Twitter API, for those of you who are
sometimes surprised that you can’t tweet anymore, there’s a limitation
on the API, if you tweet too much, it blocks you."
So there you have it, a few tidbits to get you started. There are a lot of exciting things happening here at Seesmic, and you will find out about them right here (and a few on the previously mentioned podcast). :)
Stay tuned...
This last week, Seesmic completed a server migration. I tracked down Johann Romefort, the CTO at Seesmic (no easy task!) to fill me in on some of the details of the migration.
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