The Seesmic short term roadmap

We thought it would be useful to give an update on the short-term Seesmic roadmap; here's what is super hot on our list right now:

Fix bugs

- Deleted videos by users do not get deleted from some places, like through our API. Top on our   list.-freeze/connection lost sometimes during recording (not that often but annoying)

Features

- Flagging videos for moderation
- Blocking users
- Creative Commons
- Privacy management (posting in private, to groups, allow video profile and user profile to remain private)
- Make improvements to our standalone player
- Include search capability
- Add groups and privacy support in groups (ie post only to groups)
- Stats, number of views
- Let the users download their own videos as mov files or something standard

These are the "hot" areas of focus, while we are actively working on the new Seesmic.com, Seesmic in Twhirl integration, mobile, integration in social software, which we have started and is now embedabble across most of the major blog platforms, including Wordpress, Movable Type, Disqus, Cocomment, Drupal, Dotclear and other tools such as Sprout builder.

Thank-you for your patience while we build all the above and please continue giving us feedback at info@seesmic.com

Geeknbury Festival 2008

(By Joanikin)

Let’s make The Geeknbury Festival 2008 happen!! On the 24th to the 27th of July one of our Seesmic Community Members - Documentally -  will be in a field near Hambledon in Surrey (UK) whether you guys want to join in or not. He will most likely have a T-shirt on saying ‘Geeknbury 2008 and although he doesn’t know exactly how many people are required to make a festival, he will be proudly stating that this is the first ever Geeknbury.. and history will note it so....Check it out on Doumentally's blog, here: OurManInside
and here on Seesmic.com:

MovableType plug-in Just Announced Blogged About in Germany Already!

Seesmic Movable Type plugin discussed in Germany!

Movable Type Now Has Video Comments On Seesmic Too

I would like to thank all the team at Six Apart and newly acquired Aperceptive for collaborating closely with our own team to create our Movable Type Video Comments Plugin on the Seesmic Platform. One of my best friends Joi Ito was the first to install it on his blog and did a screen demo using Flowgram.

We now support Movable Type, WordPress, Disqus, Cocomment, Drupal (API support, plugin coming) and Dotclear (unofficial) to add video comments. The plugins are already installed in about 1500 sites and blogs.

In parallel, we launched our threaded player (in this example about 150 video replies!). We are not sure yet what will be the format that will be the most successful so we try both (in fact, they both are so far).

Connecting the distributed conversation: as you can see, the video conversation platform is at the core of our strategy, becoming the default and leading video conversation engine. We also try to get the conversation back where it was created (and not hijack comments) and connect the video comments together. Our first step in this direction is that if you post a video comment using the threaded player on your blog, it will also show in Seesmic and any other blog that also embedded the player. If a reply is posted on Seesmic, that reply will also show in your blog. We are testing it and it seems people like it so we will probably offer that option in the video comments plugins as well.

I was so happy Joi was the first to install it, I kissed him after having learnt how to speak in japanese:

Show me your sounds

[by Jeremy Vaught, Community Blogger - Seesmic]

Got music?  Many of our community on Seesmic do, and they are showing off.  You can check out the thread here:

Anything to add?  Join the video conversation.

Act out your favorite Youtube video on Seesmic

[by Jeremy Vaught, Community Blogger - Seesmic]

This is the kind of thing that makes video conversation such a great medium.  Seesmicers getting together, acting on a common meme. 

But wouldn't you know it, Whit and Thomas go and mess the whole thing up...

Our First Official Couple Formed in Seesmic

I wish the very very best to Critter (whose tattoo is known worldwide) and Evepark our first couple formed in Seesmic, they tell us all the story of how it all happened. So cool.

Our Logo Story In The LA Times

Thank you so much Jessica Guynn for this great piece of Seesmic history in the LA Times. Jessica tells the story of our logo and how it ended up being tattooed on Critter's leg. For the record I would like to publish here the original raccoon logo that was crowdsourced and the result of a contest (see all the details in the dedicated show we did) we organized thanks to wilogo. I finally decided I could not live daily with that raccoon and had to find a new one (the winners were paid of course regardless of my choice, and we kept the raccoon idea), the rest of the story is in the story.

Great video on How to Build your own Seesmic Video on Sprout

Here's a great  video on how to build your own Seesmic widget by one of our partners,  Sprout .

You can set up a Seesmic widget, complete with customized background, layout, support for threads, and even built in recording so your users can respond to your videos where ever you are showing the widget.

Christian Scholz has his German show on Seesmic

Christian Scholz is doing a short daily show on seesmic in German language called "topftäglich" (literally: "daily topf"). Christian has done ten episodes now, he's talking about daily topics (like Euro 2008 soccer, news from the press etc) and also introduces some startups. Thank you Christian for doing this on Seesmic and please let us know how we can learn from your experience in doing a show in Seesmic to bring you the features you need, we love it.