Seesmic for Windows Phone Mango: Now Live

Although the Windows Phone market is relatively small, it is growing steadily. Ovum Research expects Windows Phone to round out the top 3 smart phones worldwide, competing with Apple for the #2 position by 2016, and Windows Phone 7 increased sales in Europe by 18% from last year, and 100% from Q3 to Q4.

With the recent release of the new Windows Phone, we updated Seesmic to take advantage of Mango specific features. Specifically, you’ll find Pin to Start, Live Tiles, Support for Fast App Switching, a revised background, and some new UI enhancements.

  • Updated UI for Home and Search: Following Microsoft’s UI Guidelines: We removed buttons from the home panorama and placed them instead in the app bar.

  • We removed the search field in the panorama and placed it in the app bar, updating the panorama screen.

  • Implementation of Live Tiles: Similar to shortcuts, users can pin a handful of Twitter feeds (including Home Timeline, Replies, Direct Messages) to the start menu. Live Tiles also include a notification when a user receives a message.
  • Fast App switching: When a user presses and holds the back button, he can move to another app. The support for this feature includes keeping the application active when a user moves back without restarting the application.

What else? You’ll notice minor changes and enhancements throughout the app, but don’t take our word for it.  Download it now!

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Going to LeWeb? So Are Trevor McClaren, Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker and more…

Loïc Le Meur at the LeWeb 3 conference, in dec...

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Last month we launched a contest to send a Salesforce Sales Engineer to Paris and to LeWeb, Europe’s #1 technology conference, founded by Geraldine and Loic LeMeur. Today we are pleased to announce that the lucky winner is Trevor McClaren.

Trevor is eagerly awaiting heading to Paris on December 7,8 and 9 and is already working on his French. Can you blame him? Speakers include Eric SchmidtSean ParkerKevin Rose, Marissa Mayer and many more. You can find the full list here.

Many thanks to everyone who entered the contest. If you didn’t win, you can still attend. Tickets are still available at LeWeb.

Bon voyage, Trevor, and enjoy your trip to Paris and LeWeb. Psst…don’t forget how to say Seesmic in French. It’s easy: Seeees-mic. 

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Seesmic CRM for Salesforce for Windows Phone: Now Live

Salesforce CRM users, Seesmic CRM for Windows Phone is live.

Users will be able to:

  • Search, edit, and create Contacts, Tasks, Leads and Events
  • Customize your homescreen to move more quickly from one add/edit to another
  • See recent activity concerning a Lead,Contact,Account, or Opportunity while on yourway to your next meeting
  • Log a call or email in your Salesforce account directly afterwards
  • Take advantage of Salesforce Custom Objects on your mobile device

Enjoy the video below to see more about Seesmic CRM for Salesforce on Windows Phone:

Download it now, and let us know what you think.

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Steve Jobs: “Do Different”

Om Malik’s magnificent post, The Tao of Steve, sums up what the passing of Steve Jobs means to many of us here at Seesmic. While I encourage you to read the post in full, I’d like to share a line that stood out:

 Jobs put life and soul into inanimate objects.

Steve Jobs welcomed creativity into the technology industry.  We spend most of our waking hours building, testing and thinking about technology, but it is not just about the code. There is a life and soul in everything we do. A line of code is far more than a combination of characters. Code is built with intent – to give users features and functions, but also to provide an experience, a feeling and a look that requires a human being to envision it.

As users embraced Jobs approach, the technology industry accepted the value of creativity, and technology now creates products using both the left and right sides of our brains. The influx of creativity in technology also redefined its endusers and reasons for using technology. Gadgets, computers and software are not just for geeks or for performing tasks at the office. With tools to more easily capture, create and share content, including music, film and a variety of mediums, Steve Jobs and Apple taught people without any technical expertise to use technology to express what was previously limited to our imaginations.

Shared on Google Plus by Mike Searle

Shared on Google Plus by Mike Searle

Steve Jobs reintroduced technology to the world and inspired us not only to “think different”, but also to “do different” We can’t imagine a world without Steve Jobs, because we are living in a world that he has helped us build.

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