Seesmic releases longawaited iphone application macworld. Squeezed by the press, like techcrunch, who said that le meur is in denial of the storm brewing over the twitter ecosystem after twitter announced it will compete with the client partners it so famously enabled. Building in the open has incredible benefits, i have started my last three businesses that way, here are a few lessons i learned along the way. Blackberry phones losing favor with software developers. When i sat down with him to chat about what he was up to in london this week, le meur couldnt speak highly enough of microsofts startup program. Founder and ceo of seesmic, a powerful social media management platform. People who are familiar with seesmic, a company that is specialized in creating third party clients for twitter, may have stumbled upon the name loic le meur, the founder of seesmic.
Loic le meur is the founder of seesmic and the leweb conference. Loic le meur born 14 july 1972 is a french entrepreneur and blogger. 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. Seesmic was founded by loic le meur in 2008, launching an app to help small business and enterprise customers build their brands using social media. Loic le meur shares about plant medicine and his transformation with amazon forest tribes. Seesmic was a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allowed users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as facebook and twitter.
Loic went from a hesitant firsttimer to a fervent advocate of the practice. Hootsuite acquires seesmic to continue growth in social. But for some reason it reminded me more of seesmic than chatroulette. He served as executive vice president emea at software company six apart after merging french blogging company ublog with six apart in july 2004. Loic is the founder and ceo of seesmic, a software company that. Developers abandoning blackberry for apples iphone, ipad. No matter how busy his schedule, he finds time to meditate, lately for at least an hour each. Short intro videos for seesmic products, created by trevor dougherty. The san franciscobased seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumers various feeds from twitter, facebook and more. The result is a site that he says is used in more than 40 countries and sees a new.
Loic le meur, seesmic founder and tech scene leader, was clearly bullish on the twitter platform in this interview conducted yesterday at chirp, the twitter developer conference. Social network interview with loic le meur interviewed here is noted social media entrepreneur loic le meur, founder and ceo of social application seesmic and the number one internet conference. Hes the founder of the leweb conference, seesmic acquired by hootsuite, and former executive vp of six apart. For anyone who hasnt had a chance to check it out yet, its. We think its going to replace the desktop for sure, says loic le meur, seesmics charismatic ceo, in an interview with rww. No, not the current seesmic twitter client but the original twitter that i saw loic le meur and his team pitch a year or two ago in san francisco which currently goes by the name of seesmic video. It was produced by french entrepreneur loic le meur. You can suggest improvements and tweaks through a special feedback page that seesmic has started. We reported at the time that an iphone version was in coming in the not too distant. Seesmic to launch new desktop version, iphone app and. In late 2006 le meur became a public backer of french presidential candidate nicolas sarkozy and joined sarkozys campaign team as an advisor on internetrelated topics. We think its going to be better, and not just because. Since then seesmic has built a loyal following and played an important role in the evolution of social media tools for business.
Google glass seems to be capturing all the excitement, buzz, and imagination that apples iphone and ipad once did. Seesmic just launched a new version of its android app, which, among other things, now offers support for multiple twitter accounts and crossposting from different accounts. Loic le meur is a san francisco based entrepreneur and angel investor. Daily journal of an entrepreneur creating his new startup, seesmic. Loic le meur, the ceo of seesmic, was beginning to get on my case whenever i posted a twitter update from my default twitter desktop app, tweetdeck, instead of from his new app, seesmic desktop. In an email to us, seesmic ceo loic le meur outlined some of the features of the newly upgraded app, which should become available for all users around 5. Seesmic android and blackberry led by the ever optimistic loic le meur, seesmic will probably remain a viable alternative thanks in part to its recent acquisition of which will help connect them to over 50 social networks twitter included. Seesmic ceo were going to replace the desktop for sure.
Seesmic archives jennifer neeley marketing consulting. Seesmic desktop works with apples iphone and macintosh. Loic le meur started meditating two years ago after seeing friends and colleagues meditating daily on lift. It was only a month ago that we pondered seesmics future in the video conversation arena.
Get ready to update 50 social networks from seesmic your friends are not all in one social network, but we want to help you stay in touch with them anytime and from any device. Yesterday evening, at a panel on lifestreaming put on by the mitstanford venture lab, seesmic founder loic le meur introduced the video conversation site as seeing significant growth and part of the realtime web, utilizing video, for the first time, in an active way, rather than a passive way, as youtube does. If you talk with loic le meur, ceo of seesmic, he tells a story of feeling squeezed, just like a batch of carbon. 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. Seesmic was a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allowed users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as facebook and twitter launched in 2008 by french entrepreneur loic le meur, the service was initially a video sharing website, billed as a cross between youtube and twitter, allowing short video comments to be published online. Then just a fortnight ago the startups founder loic le meur himself publicly doubted the viability. While seesmic used to be a videomessaging service run by french entrepreneur loic le meur, hes since refocused his companys efforts into making seesmic the most connected socialnetworking. Last night we broke the news that hootsuite, the social media management solution for companies, acquired loic le meurs oftenpivoting seesmic. Was loic le meurs seesmic the precursor to chatroulette.
Founder loic le meur indicated that previous twitter clients were too complicated for widespread adoption. Its coming down to the explosive growth of the iphone and the android. I had an informative chat with seesmic founder loic le meur at the techfellow awards friday night, where he revealed to me the future plans for. Seesmic lets you post videos to twitter, but ceo loic le meur is really trying to build a facebooklike service. Seesmic for android now offers support for multiple. Social network interview with loic le meur interviewed here is noted social media entrepreneur loic le meur, founder and ceo of socialapplication seesmic and the number one internet conference, leweb. A number of social network clients are produced by seesmic that includes seesmic desktop, seesmic android, seesmic. Because seesmic creates apps for all kinds of platforms, both desktop and mobile, i think that his opinion matters on this subject.
That is seesmics vision and to deliver this faster, we have acquired. As reported yesterday by techcrunch, social media management software maker hootsuite has acquired its sortakinda competitor seesmic. Version web, desktop, android, blackberry, iphone ou. While seesmic used to be a videomessaging service run by french entrepreneur loic le meur.
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