Yeah, playtime for Marc! Got my Seesmic account… this is probably not the best video ever but it’s my first one…in Germany we say all good things are three, so I have two more attempts…
Ok, things are getting back to normal here in San Diego, and I am back blogging my 2 cents… My dad was visiting me this week, for the first time since I am here, that was really bad timing for a visit… well, we still had fun…
So today I spend my whole day doing my homework, reading feeds about what’s going on in the world of web 2.0 - I really hate that term. Things are moving fast, just a few days is really a long time in this industry…
So, first I was checking Loic Le Meurs Blog trying to figure out what’s going on with Seesmic, I still don’t have an account (hey Loic, can you hook me up, please? I promise, I will have some interesting stuff to post), and I am getting anxious because we are going to the web 2.0 in Berlin beginning November and I wanted to post from there, telling the world what’s going on in good old Germany. Actually I already wanted to have a computer set up with Seesmic at the Bakersfield Business and Technology Expo this coming Tuesday, but Berlin, this would be really awesome. Seesmic is like a Video Twitter, so I am really excited to get a chance to test this.
I know, first I said this Twitter thing doesn’t make too much sense for me, but after playing with it for a while I changed my mind, it is really a cool way to communicate with each other, or to listen to what others have to say. Anne Zelenka posted a list why Twitter is a good thing, and Nat Torking also had some good points to add, yeah, you guys are right, I got it and I couldn’t agree more.
Well, while waiting for Seesmic I thought I’ll check out what else is going on, and Bingo, Robert Scoble had what I was looking for, there I learned about Utterz. Scoble is writing about Jeremiah Owyang testing Utterez. Utterez is a mobile blogging engine, the cool thing is you can tie it into your blog, and post voice messages, pics and videos from your cell.
Besides that I found another very interesting thing, Duncan Riley posted about Gooruze, a platform for online marketers, of course I created an account right away. Nice place to get news about SEO. Wow, what a day…
As i really didn’t see Twitter’s value at the beginning, I want to be at least one of the Seesmic pioneers, so I just signed up for their alpha release. So Twitter, sorry for being late, but of course I already found an excuse, let me quote Robert Scoble and Shel Israel: “Revolutions usually start of small, making few claims”.
Starting small - so I guess it’s Ok to miss the beginning of one of these revolutionary ideas, I’ll pay more attention to this kind of stuff in the future, and let me quote Robert Scoble and Shel Israel again: “… humans are wired to collaborate. Altruism turns people on even more than making money. That makes blogging the sex god of the Information Age”. So this is definitely something to pay attention to.
So what is Seesmic exactly? I found a pretty extensive review in William Tildesley’s Blog:
“Loïc Le Meur’s new startup seesmic has been gaining popularity in the online world. Currently in private beta the service allows users to upload videos and share videos, much like YouTube. The difference being seesmic allows you to show off your videos on a variety of other ‘web applications’, currently the popular micro-blogging service twitter.”
And later he says:
“Loïc’s done something brand new in creating his startup. Using video he has allowed interested parties to see the creation of his startup which can only be a good thing. His videos could be a great resource for anyone wanting to create their own startup and I can definitely see them being used as an education resource somewhere down the line.”
That is a pretty cool concept indeed, here is the link to Loïc Le Meur’s Blog. Of course I’ll share my experience once I got a chance to play with Seesmic.