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Loic, Cathy and Giselle go to demo in Palm Springs to show off Seesmic and it's new features. Every company at demo gets 6 minutes to pitch their company to the audience then gets the rest of the time to show off there product on the demo floor.
I presented Seesmic yesterday at DEMO and as all the other demonstrators we have a small booth there. We had tons of VC and journalists stopping by, so far DEMO has been a great conference with very high level contacts. Congrats Chris, Mike and the team for a great conference. Here is my presentation.
After a week in Davos the World Economic Forum is now over. Here we have compiled some interviews that hadn't made it in the other videos but we still liked. Included is Carl Lavin, Michael Arrington, Rani Radd, John Markoff, Danah Boyd and Arvind Desikan.
This is the full Interview that Loic had with actress Emma Thompson. They talk about Davos, about the projects that Emma is working on, and about the Economic crises.
Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki founders of 23andme discuss with Loic about there DNA saliva testing.
Got the 20h journal on France 2 about my presence at the World Economic Forum with Caterina Fake, Mark Zuckerberg, Robert Scoble, Carlos Ghosn and... Tony Blair. Next is our Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. Thanks Jean-Paul Chapel for this story, the 20h journal has millions of people reach in France.
Geraldine, me, Mark Zuckerberg, [I don't know sorry], Chad Hurley and [I don't know either] at the Google Party in Davos. Thanks Thomas Oswald for taking and sending me the picture.
Today Loic talks with Actress Emma Thompson,and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. He also films Bill Gates at his press confrence at the World Economic Forum. Loic also talks with Samantha Tonkin who takes care of the Celebrities at the Forum. Loic also talks with Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey about 23 and Me.
Here is my full interview with Helen Fisher.
So I have been talking about 23andme that launched in Davos and I decided to have my DNA mapped. I will also record a video to answer a few questions some of you have sent me, like @douglasbass on Twitter:
@douglasbass tweets:
Sorry to go on and on, but you did ask for opinions on the subject...shutting up now... 9 hours ago
And given what is currently known, a genetic marker most likely exists, but the genomes of Aspies are insufficiently mined 10 hours ago
On the other hand, making my genome public would help scientists to discover a genetic marker for Asperger's I can see it now, going to Amazon and reading "People with similar genomes to yours also liked..." 10 hours ago
Or even worse, someone saying "Your genome says you might like brussel sprouts, or outboard motors." 10 hours ago
And I would be spammed by people who say "I've looked at your genome, and you must need some remedies for ..." 10 hours ago
So if my genome was public, there would be people mining my genome for what diseases I would be likely to have... 10 hours ago
I remember Dean Barnett, who has cystic fibrosis, writing about a time when an attempt was made to breed CF out of existence 10 hours ago
Will post a video soon, let me know if you have questions for the 23andme team...
On CNN live again last night. In the morning he interviews Helen Fisher about Love and Sex. Loic leads a session on Social Software. Loic interviews Paulo Coelho on Seesmic, and a few Seesmic users respond. Michael Arrington talks about the people you see at the World Economic Forum.
Loic gives a tour of the Congress Center here at the World Economic Forum. On the tour he bumps into, and interviews Nick and Adam from Reuters, David Kirkpatrick from Fortune Magazine, answers the YouTube Davos Question, and shows what the forum is all about.
Robert and Loic show up to Davos and discuss what they are excited to see at the Forum.
Loic talks with Robert Scoble about what he's looking forward to at the World Economic Forum. Loic then has dinner with some bloggers and Esther Dyson who talks about the future or the internet. Finally Loic goes on CNN live for the first time this week.
Every day during the World Economic Forum I have a daily 2 minutes show and then comment live. Here is the show part on the CNN website and the behind the scene.
At the social software session I am moderating tonight, Don Tapscott will tell us to go beyond just social software:
"A year ago, Time Magazine chose YOU - the online collaborator as The Person of the Year. But that was so 2006!
Sure social networking is exploding.
What's next? So-called "user generated media" and "social networking" are really just the tip of an iceberg. Rather, nothing less than a new mode of production is in the making.
Thanks to Internet, companies are beginning to conceive, design, develop, and distribute products and services in profoundly new ways. The old notion you have to attract, develop, and retain the best and brightest inside your corporate boundaries is becoming null. With costs of collaboration falling precipitously, companies can increasingly source ideas, innovations, and uniquely qualified minds from a vast global pool of talent.
The end result is that the corporation may be going through the biggest change in its short history. Now this is beginning to affect education, government and even the nature of the democratic process."
Just heard in the corridors but apparently not being been disclosed yet that Dell and Microsoft will be announcing in Davos later today or this week a RED computer, part of the product RED initiative created by Bono and Bobby Shriver. "A percentage of each (PRODUCT)RED product sold is given to The Global Fund. The money helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa."
update: it was true
update Don thinks we should go beyond Social Software
update here are the discussion points I am thinking about:
-what is social software ? (not only myspace or facebook but also flickr etc) should everything be social software ?
-what value does it bring us ? Why is it so popular ?
-what is a friend in social software terms and in real life terms ?
-should you add everybody who wants to friend you ?
-how many friends can you have ?
-do you "own" and can you export your friends from the social software you are using ?
-how can we use it beyond socializing in business, branding and collaborative thinking ?
-is it a good investment of your time ?
-what are the dangers ? consider everything you share on social software is public and can be shared / sold / used by advertisers. Discuss the Facebook beacon controversy.
-where is it going ? How many social software will we join in the future and what will they look like ?
Add a Friend: Accept or Decline
Wednesday 23 January 20:30 - 22:30
Hotel Sunstar Park, Parsenn 1 + 2 + 3
Preparatory discussion: 20:00 - 20:30
Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and other social networking sites have seen exponential growth in 2007, which is expected to continue in 2008.
How can these community sites be used beyond socializing as a tool for content creation, testing new concepts, and relationship and brand building?
The session will include:
Danah Boyd, Researcher, USA
George F. Colony, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Forrester Research, USA
Gerhard Florin, Executive Vice-President, Publishing, Americas and Europe, Electronic Arts, Switzerland
Mitchell Kapor, President, Kapor Enterprises, USA
Fernando Madeira, Chief Executive Officer, Terra Latin America, Brazil
Donald Tapscott, Chief Executive Officer, New Paradigm Learning Corporation, Canada
Mark Turrell, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Imaginatik, United Kingdom
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom
Moderated by
Loïc Le Meur, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Seesmic, USA
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SESSION OBJECTIVE
The objective of this session is to discuss the potential of applying social networking tools in different domains and explore implications for business models.
SESSION FORMAT AND SET-UP
Dinner with 1 discussion leader placed at each table
I had great time at DLD conference and heading now in a few hours to Davos. It will be my 7th Davos, and I have been blogging it since 2004, I started their blog. This year will be very different as I will be videoblogging all day long both with my nokia n95 to Seesmic, to YouTube and to... CNN. CNN has a great coverage of Davos and I am super excited it will take 2 mins of my daily show every day and air it on CNN International as well as get me on stage live in the evening from Davos. Will do my best with Whit Scott, Seesmic video editor who will be creating the show with me to cover Davos. I will do like I do every year, walk around in corridors as well as sessions and share with you who I meet.
So it will be a mix of quickly shot low quality mobile videos and higher quality edited daily shows. I would love as much interaction as possible with all of you, so let me know how I can improve how I share my experience of Davos with all of you this year.
Here is how you can follow me in Davos this year:
-this blog
-on Seesmic
-on my youtube channel (shozu pushes all my n95 videos to Seesmic and Youtube)
-my twitter for text updates
-if you want only the edited higher quality shows go to my blip.tv
-you can also subscribe to my videos in itunes
You can also follow my fellow bloggers in Davos (will update if I see more there but I am sure these friends are participating, let me know if you are in Davos too):
-Robert Scoble
-Michael Arrington
-Jeff Jarvis who was in Davos last year too
The World Economic Forum is as usual doing a great job gathering conversations online:
-the Davos Conversation
-the Davos Youtube question
-the Davos website updated throughout the event (and you can find tons of sessions streamed live)
-there is a twitter account as well
I guess this year's tag will be davos08.
did I forget a good link or someone ? Let me know !
Technorati Tags: davos08
Chris the Carpenter (Seesmic User) has been flown in to build the studio for the Seesmic Cafe. Chris arrived today from the east coast and was welcomed by the Seesmic team. Cathy shows the studio space to Chris who will be working for the next week.
We are working on a number of mobile clients these days but if you would like to post to Seesmic via a very large number of mobile phones immediately, you can use Shozu, which is a very cool application as it allows you to send a video with a one push of button directly to Seesmic in the background. The Seesmic logo does not show up yet in their interface we are discussing with them for this, but it already works. Here is what you should do:
-download Shozu
-go to "add destination" on the Shozu website, not on the phone
-add FTP - username "yourseesmicusername" pwd "yourseesmicpwd"
-serverURL "m.seesmic.com"
-initial dir: Test
See you on Seesmic in mobile... Will update you soon on our own client efforts.
Congrats, Tariq and Freddy for this prize at the Crunchies and congrats to all the winners. I love all the winners but I had to show some nationalist brotherhood here :) Out of the winner list I daily use Twitter, Techmeme and Netvibes. Congrats to Ev, Biz, Jack and Gabe. I wish I would have been there but we had a London board meeting with our lead investors Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and Mattias Ljungman.
Seesmic was selected to be a finalist but was then removed from the list as Michael Arrington is one of our investors, see below video at 1.27s. It is a shame of course, but I am very happy to have Michael as an investor. What do you prefer ? Having advise from Michael or being in the finalists at the Crunchies ? Both of course but if I had to choose again today I would make exactly the same choice. Crunchies is once a year, Michael's advise is all year long.
Anyway, congrats to the winners !
I do not think we will (and want) to kill YouTube we will actually partner with them but thank you Darren Waters for your very cool article at BBC News, "Seesmic killed the YouTube star?"
Darren actually does not think we will kill YouTube either of course, see Darren's comment on his own blog post: "Keith, I don't really see it as a YouTube killer. I was really trying to make the point that YouTube is not the start and end of user generated online video. Seesmic is an interesting new dimension."
I am watching this video for the 5th time I think. These are no more than randon thoughts, just felt like sharing.
I had the pleasure to meet Tom Foremski in the Scoble bus (thanks for the ride to the bus again, Tom) and I was so lazy I just did a CES video, not a blog post in text but luckily Tom does a better job than I do so just go and read his notes if you like. I had good fun in the bus and at the CES, was good to see all of you.
I have to admit it is Loren Feldman who indirectly started this, I know, it sounds strange but we were talking about Seesmic and Loren asked me what was my vision for Seesmic. My answer to this question is usually "the CNN of my friends" but instead of answering this, I thought I would ask everybody in Seesmic and in a matter of hours I received 45 videos from around the World from the community. Thank you all. Tell me how anybody can do this without Seesmic. Disclosure: the quote I prefer is from Stephanie Booth: "Youtube is about posting videos, Seesmic is about the people in the videos" or something close, I will try to get all the quotes in full text too. Anyway, thanks again for all your great comments (unless we have missed one we have put all of them).
Honestly, imagine you are either in the middle of a product presentation or on your booth at CES, you are exhausted, you have spent weeks preparing CES, you have invested tons of money to be a sponsor to have Gizmodo bloggers constantly turn off your LCDs, TVS or other projecting devices... I don't think this is a very cool idea and I do not think this gives a really good image of bloggers in general. I have been at CES for two days and the way bloggers were treated was excellent: free access like press with devoted welcome desks and personnel, two blogger rooms, free lunch... We bloggers should celebrate the way these expensive conferences treat us rather than put a mess which is not even funny. Here is my video of the CES.
update: we even agree with Loren on this one:
update: I am sorry but I really don't feel like having a sense of humor on this one Larry and as the conference organizer of LeWeb3 I can even imagine what would have been the reactions of our partners if somebody had behaved like this. What's next ? Squirting the exibitors booths because it is funny ?
Thank you again for inviting me to speak at Stanford Romain Davie, really enjoyed it.
I am trying disqus on my blog to better manage my blog comments, would love a quick "hi" from you to see it in action. Thanks in advance !
I used twitter this morning to prepare my session at the Open Forum in Davos. I did not use Seesmic because I just had 10 minutes before the call, but will also do a brainstorming there. This session will be streamed live on the Internet and I will try at least to have a chat room or a gtalk+twitter to take reactions and questions from the Internet. I am also trying to see if anybody could hack the live stream and project it to Second Life at the same time. It will be on January 26th from 18h to 19h30 CET
Here are the participants of the session I will have the pleasure to moderate:
Rafael Capurro, Professor, Information management and information ethics, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
Florence Develey, Pastor, Switzerland
Reid Hoffman, Chairman and President, LinkedIn Corporation, USA
Philip Rosedale, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Linden Lab, USA
Joseph Weizenbaum, Former Professor of Computer Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The WEF suggested a session structure:
1) In the context of the virtual worlds we are creating, what is the difference between fiction and reality?
2) With the ease of access to these virtual worlds, how do different generations react?
3) How does this world of immediate access, limitless social skills and unrestrained behaviour influence our moral framework?
4) Should the focus be on the technological or human side of progress?
Here is the feedback I got from Twitter using terraminds search, thank you everyone participating in the conversation for your help.
vangeest @loiclemeur: a prestentation http://tinyurl.com/yqtp7t
susanreynolds @loiclemeur re virtual worlds: Suggest talking to Henrik Bennetsen frm Stanford for questions. He ses the big picture http://snurl.com/1wzpb
stevegroves @loiclemeur: I can see that; my daughter is in ClubPenguin all the time and I like SL; just checking out There.com now
wmacphail @loiclemeur SL seems to be falling from grace, advertisers dropping out, gambling prob, now the banks thing.
Mickeleh @loiclemeur counter virtual worlds with Twitter and Seesmic. Text lives. Not everyone wants to play puppeteer to an avatar
jbminn @loiclemeur - agreed. Club Penguin is huge. My kids knew about it before me. Very, very, viral among elementary school age kids
Tedesign @loiclemeur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse check also P2P based MVs like Twinverse
gui2 @loiclemeur : Entropia Universe too...
julich @loiclemeur Virtual Worlds : Gaia, Stardoll
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A few weeks ago a french guy I have never heard about contacts me on my cell in San Francisco.
"Hello, I am a candidate for the election of the President of Facebook, you need to support me" says the guy.
"What ? Who are you ? What is this ? Sounds like a joke to me." - I say
"You need to support me and your Country, it is very important that France wins ! Please talk about me in Facebook, blog about it" he says
"Wait, just checking, who are you on Facebook and how many friends do you have there ?" I ask
long pause. no answer. the guy starts bulshitting again. I politely tell him I do not have time for him and politely end the conversation.
The rest of the story is famous in France. Most journalists got trapped and he went on all major press titles and main TV shows in France. On our equivalent of CNN, LCI, he said "I can reach twice as many people as Sarkozy online" as he claimed to have obtained the support of very well known jet set celebrities (and he did, for some of them). Here are many screenshots of the French press and TV courtesy of Gilles Klein.
Another way to illustrate that blogs and social software can get closer to reveal a big lie: blog comments would have killed this immediately. Now to be honest, I am very impressed by the guy hability to get such a huge national coverage on a lie like this. Amazing.
On the "Grand Journal" of Canal Plus
On i>television
On the blog of french journalist
more here
Thanks Livia Lacolare for pointing me to this RAI TV Show about Seesmic and for talking about it on TV ! Thanks Livia also for all your help to get a Seesmic community going in Italy.
I will give a keynote at the Search Engine strategies conference in Paris next week on January 15th and 16th, it will be about a few current trends I see interesting like micro (or lazy) blogging, not only about search engine optimization as I really do not consider myself an expert of this. It has a very interesting programme for those of you interested in SEO. The agenda is here. As speaker I have a free ticket so I thought I could give it to one of my blog readers let me know in the comments why you would like to go if you do and I will pick a comment from my english or my french blog. You can also register to the event here.
One of our very early and active Seesmic community members, Critter, has launched a cool idea (not an official Seesmic project but we like it), the Seesmic World Project. He would like to learn more about the world and thought that you could do a small video to share facts and cool things about where you live. Here is how Critter puts it:
"My son and I want to know more about the world. Watching television shows is ok, but that just doesn’t cut it sometimes. Obviously we cannot just fly around the world. So we decided to embrace a little bit of technology and let you take us around the world. I have asked on Seesmic that users do a small video for my son, Talon, that gives us a bit of insight into where the Seesmic users live. I have also asked for permission to embed the videos on this site as we document our journey around the world. We will also be putting a large world map up in the living room so that we can locate the places talked about. I will be posting the response videos (with permission, of course) and pictures of the map as we start to get tags placed. So stay tuned, and if you are a Seesmic user, why not take a few minutes out of your day and show us where you live."
We're back on our daily show !
Thank you so much Robin Good, for this Seesmic review. I can feel you have played with it a long time for writing such a post. Here are few quotes.
"Seesmic [is] one of the most innovative and promising new web services out there [...] by using a true bottom up approach Seesmic has created a true conversational platform to help, refine and steer the very direction of the company that makes the same platform available. [...] I find the Seesmic conversations truly genuine, often engaging, sometimes dull and superficial, just like in real life. And it is this genuinity, this final rise of the personal voice in all of its splendor, uncensored and unpackaged for delivery, that makes this content so incredibly compelling. Compelling for those participating in it because it is very real and extends significantly the number and quality of discussion mates you can have. Compelling for those watching it only because there is often a great deal of personal learning and insight that is normally shared inside these conversations. Compelling for the publisher hosting this community because it creates a true virtual space in which to support the interests and passions of your readers. Bye bye forums, Seesmic is here. [...] Seesmic has great potential. Of this I am sure as I saw firsthand by using it the power that this new format, conversational video can have in terms of supporting and energizing online communities, while providing them with an excellent tool to brainstorm, discuss and develop new ideas."
Scoble, Dave and Om in Paris on December 11th at LeWeb3
Om, recover well my friend. Reading your words I appreciate even more that you joined us this year in December in Paris for LeWeb3. We can see on this picture you were not feeling great already. I hope so much traveling was not the cause of your heart attack. I really hope you will recover well and wish you a fantastic new year. Do not blog, do not think too much about your readers, think about yourself first and come back when you are ready. Take your time. Health first. Do not even drink that bottle of port :) As Dave Winer says, let's go for a walk when you are back in good shape. If there is anything we can do for you, we'll be there.
Edward White - Fotolia.com
I love my Country. I love France. Even thoug I live in California it is still my Country. France finally banned smoking in all public spaces including restaurants and bars as of yesterday. It has been banned in California for years and being a former smoker myself, I have been asking for this on my blog for a long time (I stopped smoking more than two years ago). I am not coming back to why it's good to ban smoking (like getting 10 years of life back), it's just obvious to everybody and it's great news France finally banned it.
Let's now talk about the next step. I am not saying everything I see in the US is better than France, far from it, I will come back to this in details one day. But there is clearly an area where we don't look very civilized in France, is the dog shit. I just saw this morning again somebody cleaning his dog shit. The dog was not even on the walkway, it was in the street, behind a parked car. The dog owner took a plastic bag and took rid of it instantly. Now way you are going to see this anytime soon in France, even on the walkways, I mean rarely.
After strongly backing the public banning of smoking in public spaces in France, I will now strongly back very high fines for people letting their dogs put their mess on the walkways. It's coming I am sure. France is back I tell you.
Thank you, Alain Sherter for this story about Seesmic on Thedeal.com. Yes, mobile is coming.
Communicating by video is another kind of beast. For one thing, people don't do it en masse yet because it's not practical. More important, the act of expressing oneself cogently, wittily or, for that matter, even semi-intelligibly on video is something new. Apart from having to speak naturally while staring glassy-eyed into a Webcam, there's something slightly disorienting about being seen, as opposed to being "merely" read, while engaging in generally aimless, but otherwise perfectly agreeable, chitchat on the Web. And that's why Seesmic (and its ilk) is interesting. As Le Meur says, the goal is to enable just this sort of "trivial" conversation.
"It's human nature that people want casual, informal conversation," he says. "People in Seesmic are on video like they are in reality, and that's what is very new. You can't cheat, you don't have makeup or TV lights -- you feel very much like you are. It's as if we were going to the pub or having coffee together. That's very different than TV, and totally different than YouTube because there's no conversation in YouTube."
Thanks, Michael, for the interview.
"Many Seesmic users embrace a casual, “come as you are” style, with videos recorded in kitchens, bedrooms, pubs, and any other place you might imagine. Seesmic users capture their lives and thoughts without makeup, special lighting, or editing. While this edginess might put off some viewers, the popularity of reality television suggests the desire to peek inside the window of others’ lives is almost insatiable.
Seesmic provides a fascinating view into the minds of its members. By turns interesting, intellectual, self-absorbed, crude, vulgar and thoughtful, Seesmic videos cover the range of human emotions. Is this good or bad? Depends on your particular taste, I suppose, but it’s not exactly the dream tool for enterprises."
A few weeks ago, a conversation in Seesmic started about Google Open Social, with many people asking questions or commenting in a positive or negative way about Google Open Social. I found the conversation so fascinating that we did edited the Seesmic videos one after each other and Patrick Chanezon, Google Open Social evangelist, just answered them, which I think is very cool.
The questions.
The answers.
