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[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
This is certainly not an all inclusive list, just some videos I found on Seesmic talking about our great American holiday, Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
It's not my list of 50 web apps for educators, but MatchACollege.com's list. They title it "50 Awesome Semantic Apps for Educators".
You can find Seesmic in the 'blogging' section. Thanks for adding us to this list. But just for kicks, I've tried to clarify in my own mind what the Semantic Web is what they are talking about. I've heard the term plenty of times, just am not sure what it means. Here goes...
Tim Berners-Lee who created the World Wide Web defines the Semanic Web as, "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines." MatchACollege.com says in the opening paragraph that, "Teaching computers to understand how the human brain categorizes and thinks is at the heart of this concept and promises to open the doors to easier and more efficient access to information on the Internet." And Wikipedia.org defines the Semantic Web as, "An evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content."
And it all that still makes your head hurt, just think of the Semantic Web the potential future of the web.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
From the socialmedian about page, "socialmedian is a social news network that connects people with personalized news and information. socialmedian 
enables you to easily keep up-to-date on the news that matters to you and to people who share your interests" [emphasis theirs]
A few days ago socialmedian announced that they have added Seesmic which means that socialmedian users "can now automatically have their Seesmic videos shared with their networks and followers on socialmedian." according to their blog. The blog goes on to say, "Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect online through video conversation. Some have described it as a sort of video twitter -- people post short video messages to each other and in response to blog posts and discussions.
"For our first implementation of seesmic, socialmedian users will be able to auto-feed their Seesmic videos to their socialmedian page, and in doing so automatically share their Seesmic videos with their socialmedian networks and followers."
Also, it sounds like this is only the beginning, socialmedian is planning to add more of the Seesmic functionality into their site.
Finally as a reminder, if you are interested in adding Seesmic to any projects you have going, we encourage you to check out wiki.seesmic.com/SeesmicAPI to learn more about what you can do. Said simply, if we can do it, you can do it.
Thanks socialmedian! I like what I'm seeing so far and look forward to future integration. :)
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
This one has been on the list to write about for a while now. Problem is, it deals with a French car maker, so most sites about it are not in English. I'm getting over it, and moving on. :)
According to Wikipedia, "[Renault] is well known for numerous revolutionary designs..." which is what makes what I'm about to tell you that much more interesting.
Renault is asking for public feedback for their future designs, and they are using text and video powered by Seesmic to do that. You can participate at laguna-coupe.com/en/design and help design the future of a find automobile.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
This is not a major headline by any means, but the TwiTip blog is started by one of my favorite bloggers, Darren Rowse of Problogger. The Twhirl review is done by Jeff Chandler 
who is also a blogger and podcaster.
Outside of the Twitter website and txting, twhirl is the number one Twitter client. (and notice the lower case "t" in twhirl, Marco, the creator of twhirl, assures me this is the correct way to write it)
Looking at the pole now, there are 1,125 votes, 52% "sometimes use Twitter.com and sometimes a client" while 20% only use clients and 28% never use clients.
This twhirl review is not merely a review however, it is also a tutorial which explains things like setting up multiple twitter accounts, one click "retweeting", Pownce/Jaiku/Identi.ca support, configurability of the interface, and quite a bit more! (is configurability even a word?)
Also a look through the comments shows there are a lot of fans of twhirl. There are a lot of great comments, but one that I particularly likes is from Zipporah who says, "Thanks, I use twhirl exclusively but never bothered to really configure it. Now I can make it even more effective. It’s gotten me over my twitterphobia - it’s so easy to use." So even a seasoned twhirl user learned from this tutorial.
Thanks Jeff and Darren. And once again, check out the review on twitip.com/twhirl-review.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
To start off, just to be clear, Seesmic did not give away the N96. :) However, the N96 is real, and Seesmicer Jenson Chew won it in a contest. The contest is that each contestant is given a new Nokia N96 for a week and after the week is up, they write a review and the best review wins an N96.
Jenson put Seesmic on his N96 and Seesmic's Mike Ran helped him to get to know the functionality. Stuff like switching from the front the the back camera and getting it to transmit on wifi instead of 3g.
You can check out Jenson's blog on the subject.
Jenson links to it, but it's worth linking here again. If you are interested in learning more about the Seesmic application running on the N95 and N96 phones, you can check that out here.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
Recently we had an exciting event in the Seesmic community. Long time friend Derek Overbey and his wife gave birth to a baby girl. (and yes, I know Derek didn't physically give birth, but he does play a strong role in the entire process)
Photo credit Derek Overbey
Through Seesmic, we were all very informed of how things were going, so I asked Derek about his use of Seesmic and his thoughts on how it went while bringing baby Overbey into the world.
He said, "I had every intention of making this a Social Media type of birth. I
had informed my wife that I was going to use Seesmic and Twitter to get
the word out about the birth of Melinda. What I was shocked about was
the response I got back. Some of these people that I interact on
Seesmic have become better friends than people I have in my "real"
life. The responses I received were overwhelming and inspiring. To be
able to share a video of your newborn daughter literally 10 minutes
after she was born is truly amazing. I felt like everyone was there
with me and it made me more calm when my wife needed me the most.
My daughter will now have a piece of her life frozen in time. She will
be able to view a thread that was all about her with posts from people
she might or might not know saying how cute she is. I find that amazing
that I can share a personal experience with people from around the
world and receive their thoughts within minutes or even seconds.
I am a die hard Seesmic community member and it's events like sharing the birth of my daughter that remind me why
!
"
Here is the video of Derek sharing his new baby on Seesmic and of course the thread of friends responding:
You can always find more from Derek at seesmic.com/doverbey.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
For those things on the web that may not qualify as a full post here on Seesmic, but are certainly worth a mention...
Krississippi makes the list again with a great video posted on her blog about finding her joy.
This is great. Not just because blog has added video comments powered by Seesmic, many many many do that, but this one added a pretty nice tutorial.
On the Talk It Up! blog, Heidi Miller gives us 10 Social Media thing to try on our lunch break.
And David Pearce on the makeuseof blog, tells is 9 ways to use twitter without a website, and of course the #1 Twitter clienter, twhirl is there.
Kate Foy has a nice review of Seesmic on the Spinning a Learning Web blog.
I mentioned Steve Garfield earlier this week about his class at BU, and here is the video of them saying, "Hi."
And this has nothing to do with Seesmic, but it has to be one of the cutest pictures I have ever seen:
photo credit Jerry Paffendorf
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
What is love about this is it is a great example of Seesmic being a 
fantastic tool to have a conversation about what matters to you. But not only that, you get to have the conversation where you want to have the conversation.
Enter stage left: this story on beatblogging.org. The conversation applies to their blog, so they embedded a Seesmic conversation started by Mary Louise Schumacher. The author of the blog post wrote what I think sums up pretty well a conversation on Seesmic. Patrick wrote after pointing our a few video responses in the thread, "There are many other responses, and all of them are informative. Join the conversation so we can learn together."
So if you have an interest in beatblogging, and/or you want to see some discussion about it, please mosey on over to beatblogging.org.
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]
On journalism.co.uk, a blog for journalists, Richard Sambrook is quoted discussing the BBC and user-generated video. 
Richard Sambrook is the Director of Global News for the BBC and he was talking about the "future of international news both inside and outside the BBC".
His comments are interesting because they reflect what the BBC has seen and hope to see from using technologies like Seemic. Right now he says, "there's not much newsgathering going on." News does happen, take for example this video of a carjacking posted to Seesmic. Or the videos that Steve Garfield and others have posted following the campaign trail. Steve is even talking about this very topic in his class at Boston University. Obviously I can pull examples, but yes, there is not much news being captured on Seesmic as there will be in the future, and that's what Richard goes on to talk about.
Richard goes on to say, "The future increasingly is live and it's dynamic. This kind of video blogging is already getting integrated. That's just
started and it's going to grow incredibly fast. You're going to see
very dynamic video dialogue conversations with the public opening up
very rapidly.
"All journalists will start to find video
important," he said, emphasizing that "international news organisations
that fail to innovate and utilise the internet to its full potential
will go out of business."
"It's important to remember we are in
the very beginning of what is a transformational change in terms of
journalism. While there are more global news channels than ever
before, major newspapers and broadcasters are closing their overseas
bureaux at far greater rates than before."
There is more of course at journalism.co.uk. I for one am excited to see how Seesmic will change the way news is gathered and distributed. It is an exciting time, change is happening, thanks for joining us on this ride.
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