Harisson Ford and Steven Spielberg on Seesmic
May 17, 2008
Back in October 2007 I covered the new startup, Seesmic. Since then the site has grown quite a bit in popularity and is now attracting celebrities like Harisson Ford and Steven Spielberg.
Seesmic is a form of “video Twitter” that let you have video conversation with other members.
Yesterday things got even more exciting, when Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas, Shia Laboeuf, Karen Allen and Cate Blanchett came on the site and had discussions with other users.
Loic Le Meur report on his blog about the event:
I wish we would have given some notice to our community but we did not know obviously until the last minute if it would happen or not and the production team had requested the videos being posted in private first, then unlocked, which would not have allowed us enough interactivity. Some videos were posted in real time, but it was a good surprise and not planned, so no way to tell people to show up.
The original idea was to have journalists around the World ask private questions to the actors and they would answer in private, as a way to give access to them. Instead of a fully private interview, most of the conversation has been public during about two hours but there were also many private videos which were posted and answered by journalists.
To be perfectly honest, I was even sure it would not happen and promised Cyrille to cut myself a **** if it would happen, now what… I would like to thank all the team behind this amazing project and all the Seesmic community members who helped so much make it happen.
What we had agreed with the production team was that the videos would be posted private first, and then after the event (a few hours after) they would become public (request from the team). To our suprise they finally accepted to post videos in real time and in public. This is why we have some videos posted with a few hours delay and others with reactions from the Seesmic community. Most videos were private then made public while others were posted immediately like the Harisson Ford one.
Here is a video of Harrisson Ford about Stunt:
And here is one of Steven Spielberg
Joostteam.com now on seesmic.com
December 18, 2007
I just joined the pre-alpha of seesmic.com. I will keep you posted on my thoughts about the platform. For now here is a quick video I just made using it:
Loic Le Meur’s New Startup Launches: Seesmic
October 8, 2007
The rumors were correct. Loic Le Meur, a well known European entrepreneur that recently relocated to San Francisco, will unveil his new video startup, Seesmic, this morning into a closed beta.The service is very much in “alpha” and they’ve only given away a few test accounts. They’ll start to give more over the next few days - just sign up on the Seesmic home page to get one. Look for a full launch
I’ve been testing the service over the weekend and, even though it is yet another video startup, I think Seesmic is both fun and addictive.
The service can be described as a video based Twitter, although it is also much more than that. The grand vision behind Seesmic is for it to become a very open online video/television service where people are constantly interacting around both user generated and professional content.
A lot of the functionality behind that vision won’t be built for a while, though. For now, they are sticking to the basics. But a key foundation of the service, right from the start, is that the service is very open with user data, both inbound and outbound.
Loic is also planning a Seesmic widget for Joost… so keep an eye on it.
Source: techcrunch
