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Seesmic day 21 - where is Loic ?

LeWeb3: 24 hours left for the early bird price...

Seesmic day 20 - arm wrestling

Seesmic Day 19 - Founders table and conversation following in Seesmic

Seesmic Day 18 - I have a VP of content named vinvin !

Vinvin joins Seesmic.

Seesmic Day 17: the idea of Seesmic and how I got it

Raul Hernandez Gonzalez asked me how I got the idea of Seesmic so here is my reply, how I god the idea of Seesmic.

Seesmic day 16

Seesmix: best of 24hrs in Seesmic

There is already so much happening in Seesmic that we are launching a second daily show, Seesmix, edited from the best happening everyday.

Right now it is the Seesmic team deciding what should be in it, as soon as possible it is you, the seesmic viewers, who will decide. We will edit it every single day as of today and the quality will improve as we move along and you have good conversations...

We will also add tags/community features to then created edited daily journals by community.

Here are the two first seesmix, we would love your feedback.
Seesmix episode 2

Seesmix episode 1

Seesmic day 15: conversation around the video duration

A real conversation around how long should videos be. I vote for no more than 5 minutes.

Seesmic: the genesis of video as conversation ?

EirePreneur thinks our conversation with Scoble of last saturday "is the birth of video as conversation" [...] "Tone of voice, facial expressions and gesticulations gave the conversation a dept of meaning impossible in text only"

glad you like it. For now we are trying to build the best possible video conversation tool with the first 200 users in. I hope it will be as huge as you feel and as I feel too.

Jyri Engestrorm sold Jaiku to Google and moved the entire team to San Francisco

Here is the full version of our conversation with Juri of Jaiku and how Google got his entire team join San Francisco.

Seesmic Day 14 - tech update !

Seesmic tech. update w/ Johann, CTO of seesmic. studio update after all your feedback. more great seesmic vids. virtual tour of seesmic offices.

Seesmic day 13 - special web 2.0

Seesmic day 12 - working on the studio !

Here is the day 12 video. Giselle also wrote a summary of your feedback and help about the studio, see below we are still looking for your feedback as we build it. Thanks in advance.

Here are some comments from Giselle: "I'm very happy to say that I've received some very helpful and interesting comments in response to my call for help with the studio! Here are some of the ideas I've gotten...
Roro suggests that we keep the studio "fresh, innovative and great," which is not only a very nice compliment but something we will always try to do to keep things interesting. He encouraged us to change the show, or shows, every time. I personally like this idea very much and would love to hear what elements of the show you think could be changed consistently. Roro also recommended that we keep from putting too much furniture in the room as it is not a huge space and Antoine agreed with him. So, I would love some suggestions as to what sort of furniture to put in the space that would keep it spacious but also very efficient and comfortable for everyone involved. For example, Antoine recommended that we think about a Japanese style design for "simplicity and grace." Sebastien mentioned the possibility of allowing the user/viewer to choose which camera angle they are seeing and also which background - having a default setup but leaving those options open to the user...sounds fun! Guille A. might want to toss the table completely and put folks on the ground in some classy but relaxing furniture to make our guests really feel at home and not under any pressure. Patty suggests using different color backdrops for different subjects on the shows - which, as you may have noticed on the videos, we have come pretty close to when filming in our multi-colored building! Emmanuel, Frederic, Nomalz and David have also offered some helpful advice on mics and cameras.
So that is a quick summary of the feedback you have sent so far, which is very much appreciated, and we are thinking about all these ideas while welcoming more! Please let me know if you have any replies to the ideas I mentioned above or any new ideas of your own, I would love to hear them so keep them coming. You can email me at giselle (at) seesmic.com. Thanks!"

New blog template ! how do you like it ?

This one is very simple and much faster to load, how do you like it ? Thanks Stephane Rangaya for designing it.

Seesmic day 11 - more seesmic users !

Seesmic day 10 - mashup of first Seesmic users !

A great review of Seesmic

Thanks, William for a such a great review of Seesmic, the kind that makes us sleep even less to get Seesmic even more exciting ! Thanks and keep sending us feedback :)

Lots of random evening thoughts

Just had coffee with Om Malik and Matt Mullenweg, we had an interesting conversation about creativity and open source. I had also had a great similar exchange with Philippe Starck [fr] who explained me that be creative he had to isolate himself from anybody and just look at the sea. The last thing he wants is to exchange with a crowd about his ideas, he explained it is very single and individual. When you see what Wikipedia is today there is "wisdom of the crowd" but can it be creative for say or just execute ?

Matt said I should absolutely check out the Menphis Minnies barbecue around the corner from my house. Thanks Matt, happy to see you again it has been a while, would love to talk more soon, maybe the barbecue together ?

Robert points out that Google Reader now tells in the open how many subscribers you have and counts how many readers we have. Robert says I have 1538 subscribers just in Google reader. Interesting, and it is spread amongst the different feeds I have in English and French I guess. Dave is adding the list in Google spreadsheet.

Dave is testing his french accent in Seesmic and I called him to say it made my day. Why ? Because when you have been working so hard (my tech team, not me) to get Seesmic out and you see the first friends having fun in it, it really makes your day, you know the feeling. About 20 friends are in Seesmic since today playing with it, won't link to all of them but will do a best of show tomorrow morning. I love you all for your help.

We discussed about context in Seesmic with Ben and the idea of asking questions to the users, without telling them what to do but just to start conversations, like "What do you think of Al Gore getting the Nobel ?" (what do you think by the way ? I think it's great, let his voice be louder).

Started running again. It feels really good in the Golden Gate park. Last year precisely I was running my first half Marathon, the 20km de Paris. Did it in 1h35 minutes blogged with details. I had even a podcast with my run in Google earth. Wished I would have run it today too. What are the cool half-marathons in the bay area ?I am fed up with friends critcizing the fact that my blog gets ages to load (but thank them for that) so I thank Stephane Rangaya for making a new TypePad template. What do you think about it ? I like it but I think we can improve it. I want it very very simple and fast to load. Your feedback welcome.
Update: Michael adds the excel spreadsheet I think it is an interesting ranking however I have 4 different RSS feeds, two in french and two in english so I wonder about how reliable it is and I guess many people are in my case.

First video from Seesmic to Twitter

Oooops I crashed YouTube

Posted a video on YouTube and crashed the server ooops sorry Google :) Even the largest have their issues sometimes....

Seesmic day 9 - how to monetize content

Starting to think about how to monetize video content, thank you Lucy Jacobs of Adbrite for your time. Met Bert Holland at Google Zeitgeist, Ber works for one of the best known brands on the plante but let's not say which one and finally met with Ariel Poler serial entrepreneur, business angel and playing with Textmarks. Very happy that Bert and Ariel agreed to help me and are so excited, Ariel will be investing in Seesmic.

Seesmic day 8

Seesmic day 7

apologies for the sound quality something wrong with the mics and the sound card.

LeWeb3 v2 of the conference program

Version 2 is here congrats Cathy. Oh and we have already more than 400 participants confirmed. Get your seat before the end of october to get the early bird price.

template for the show

video en francais sous titree

feedback from yesterday

-10s of CVs received

-help for the show

-one entrpreneurial question of the day

-one seesmic fact per day

team

-Johann

-Alex Romania

-Whit

-Cyrille

interviews

the business

-the application seesmic

-the shows the 3 shows

-the open source way

-the investors

-the personal investors

-finance / accounting

-the brand

where it started: why

-4 years of blogging, from Davos to my breakft

-interaction with people

concentration of minds in SF

Quelques suggestions de contenu pour les prochaines videos:

- Comment as tu trouve le nom seesmic?

- Peux tu nous presenter un peu les centres de developpement en France/Roumanie? Comment tu geres ca?

- Tu dis souvent qu'il faut parler de son "idee" a tout le monde, mais tu l'as bien garde secrete (ou du moins non-publique) jusqu'a ces derniers jours, pourquoi?

- Comment se passent les levees de fond?

- Est-ce que tu penses avoir beaucoup d'utilisateurs? Il y a surtout beaucoup de gens qui regardent des videos que ceux qui en uploadent, et encore moins qui en creent?

David

I love Facebook even more today

Seesmic day 6: need your help build a studio !

We are building a studio in San Francisco and we need everything: cameras, mics, ligthing... All your help to Giselle who just joined today is appreciated thanks in advance.

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Seesmic day 5 - announcing the brand

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Startup day 4 - Steve Garfield

Thanks again, Steve.

An RSS and itunes feed for the startup video series

If you like to follow the startup creation series on a feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/podcastloic

or

directly on itunes following this link

Startup day 3 - dinner with the Scoble family

and here is the unedited version of Robert Scoble on the future of TV if you want to learn more (about 10 minutes)... Merci Robert and Maryam for such a great evening !

Startup day 2

Free Burma

Great initiative or Robert Basic in Germany and many other bloggers: http://www.free-burma.org there is even a working project site Wiki http://freeburma.stots.de/doku.php?id=official_wiki

Startup day 1

Niklas defends Skype as he steps down

Niklas was interviewed by Thomas.