Loïc Le Meur blog

0 Disqus API gets video comments, The Inquisitr adds them

Disqus just added in their API support for Seesmic video comments, which have been there in the main Disqus version for a while, thanks Daniel and team.

0 Drupal gets full Seesmic video comments support

Drupal support on Seesmic gets an additional component, full video comments module.
http://drupal.org/project/seesmic_api
http://drupal.org/project/seesmic_comment

0 X-Files partners with Seesmic and gets more than 200 video replies already

Gia Milinovich , one of our core community members who is a blogger and producer, introduced us recently to the X-Files team at 20th Century Fox and here is the result, our first integration ever with a brand (we customized our popular threaded player), enabling the video conversation around the X-Files upcoming movie. We were thrilled to collaborate with 20th Century Fox and very excited to see that we already got more than 200 video replies on it, feel free to embed our player anywhere by just hitting the menu button.

0 The Seesmic product short term roadmap

I thought it would be useful to give you an update on the sort term Seesmic roadmap, here is what is super hot on our list right now:

Fix bugs

-deleted videos by users do not get deleted from some places, like through our API. Top on our list.

-freeze/connection lost sometimes during recording (not that often but annoying)

Features

-Flagging videos for moderation

-blocking users

-Creative Commons

-Privacy management (posting in private, to groups, allow video profile and user profile to remain private etc)

-improve our standalone player

-Search

-groups and privacy support in groups (ie post only to groups)

-stats, number of views

-let the users download their own videos as mov files or something standard

These were the "hot" ones while we are actively working on the new Seesmic.com, Seesmic in Twhirl integration, mobile, integration in social software which we have started being now embedabble in your blogs using Wordpress, Movable Type, Disqus, Cocomment, Drupal, Dotclear and other tools such as Sprout builder.

Thank you for your patience while we build all the above and please continue giving us feedback.

0 Movable Type Now Has Video Comments On Seesmic Too

I would like to thank all the team at Six Apart and newly acquired Aperceptive for collaborating closely with our own team to create our Movable Type Video Comments Plugin on the Seesmic Platform. One of my best friends Joi Ito was the first to install it on his blog and did a screen demo using Flowgram.

We now support Movable Type, WordPress, Disqus, Cocomment, Drupal (API support, plugin coming) and Dotclear (unofficial) to add video comments. The plugins are already installed in about 1500 sites and blogs.

In parallel, we launched our threaded player (in this example about 150 video replies!). We are not sure yet what will be the format that will be the most successful so we try both (in fact, they both are so far).

Connecting the distributed conversation: as you can see, the video conversation platform is at the core of our strategy, becoming the default and leading video conversation engine. We also try to get the conversation back where it was created (and not hijack comments) and connect the video comments together. Our first step in this direction is that if you post a video comment using the threaded player on your blog, it will also show in Seesmic and any other blog that also embedded the player. If a reply is posted on Seesmic, that reply will also show in your blog. We are testing it and it seems people like it so we will probably offer that option in the video comments plugins as well.

I was so happy Joi was the first to install it, I kissed him after having learnt how to speak in japanese:

0 Online Video Ads Finally Find Their Niche

Nice to hear that onlive video advertising in 2007 was $554 million on a total of $21 billion. That is small, but I bet it is going to grow like crazy over the next 3 to 5 years. That will give me a break on everybody asking me all the time about Seesmic's business model. Mark Glaser has a good piece about online video advertising in Mediashift.

Why wouldn't some of billions of advertising money currently spent on TV move to the web too? I do not see a reason. It will come, just a question of time. In 2000 - 2002 nobody thought the simple text ads in Google Adsense would become billions. I have good hopes.

0 Our Raccoon Seesmic Logo Story In The LA Times

Thank you so much Jessica Guynn for this great piece of Seesmic history in the LA Times. Jessica tells the story of our logo and how it ended up being tattooed on Critter's leg. For the record I would like to publish here the original raccoon logo that was crowdsourced and the result of a contest (see all the details in the dedicated show we did) we organized thanks to wilogo. I finally decided I could not live daily with that raccoon and had to find a new one (the winners were paid of course regardless of my choice, and we kept the raccoon idea), the rest of the story is in the story.

0 Our Official Couple Formed In Seesmic

I wish the very very best to Critter (whose tattoo is known worldwide) and Evepark our first couple formed in Seesmic, they tell us all the story of how it all happened. So cool.

0 How To Create Your Own Seesmic Widget Video

Great video to build your Seesmic widget using our partners widget builder Sprout

0 Christian Scholz has his German show on Seesmic

Christian Scholz is doing a short daily show on seesmic in German language called "topftäglich" (literally: "daily topf"). Christian has done ten episodes now, he's talking about daily topics (like Euro 2008 soccer, news from the press etc) and also introduces some startups. Thank you Christian for doing this on Seesmic and please let us know how we can learn from your experience in doing a show in Seesmic to bring you the features you need, we love it.