Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Well, well, well. Loic Le Meur is up to something and I think we’ll all benefit in the end. Twhirl has now added Identi.ca support, but much more than that. Using XMPP, it appears we’ll be able to get closer...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Seesmic (note that Michael Arrington is an investor) CEO Loic Le Meur asked readers what they would do if they were the CEO of the company to encourage daily use by users. Responses flooded in via Seesmic videos, blog comments, Twitter and Friendfeed, and ranged from derisive quips to multi-paragraph business plans. But for the [...]
Joi Ito's Web (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Joi Ito, Chad Hurley and Loic LeMeur Join TechCrunch50 As Startup Judges. Its hard to believe, but TechCrunch50 is less than two months away. We're knee-deep in the applications right now, and I can tell you it is hard to...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Some have suggested we observe Bastille Day by giving a shoutout to local Frenchepreneur Loic Le Meur. Sorry, Loic, but we still think you're a guy from Kentucky with a convincingly fake accent.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Are You Paying Attention? (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Are you in Sydney or the Bay Area? If so - come join me, Robert Scoble, Loic Le Meur and our host Ross Dawson at the Future of Media Summit 08 . A Cross-continental conference. Otherwise track #fom08 on the various social networks.
Roam4free (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I spotted Loic Le Meur running a poll on twitter tonight using Polldaddy’s new twitter poll site. It really is a superb innovate tool for the Irish company who are making leaps and bounds at present. If you want to run polls on your blog sign up here or on twitter here. Well done guys.
Jan's and John's Peripatetic Advent (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
We're in California for the summer, continues... Last night we drove in to San Francisco to have dinner with the fabulous Loic Le Meur and his wife. They moved to San Francisco last year so Loic could start Seesmic which...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Seesmic is company built specifically to encourage asynchronous video conversations. We spent a few hours recently with Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur, who kindly gave us an update on the company. Four weeks after opening its service to the public, Seesmic recently announced a product roadmap heavily influenced by users. After focusing on making sure the service scales,...
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Seesmic, the new company headed by French blogger Loic Le Meur, provides a technology for threaded video comments on various blog platforms, is up and running on TypePad. Beet.TV first reported on the plans for this new functionality last in...
The Jeff Pulver Blog (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
As one of the investors in Seesmic's A round, I welcomed the news this week that Seesmic has raised $6 million in second-round financing from Pierre Omidyar and Wellington Partners. Seesmic continues to contribute to the social sculpture of the Internet. I look to watching Loic Le Meur's vision evolve and Seesmic grow in it's reach and influence around the Internet. Tags: Seesmic , startup , video...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
This just in : Loic Lemeur's video blog commenting platform Seesmic has raised $6 million in second-round financing from eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) founder Pierre Omidyar and Wellington Partners via its London-based partner Eric Archambeau . The startup will use the funds to further develop the platform, add mobile functionality and internationalize. Two other bits of Seesmic news - the enterprise has enabled...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
This just in : Loic Lemeur's video blog commenting platform Seesmic has raised $6 million in second-round financing from eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) founder Pierre Omidyar and Wellington Partners via its London-based partner Eric Archambeau. The startup will use the funds to further develop the platform, add mobile functionality and internationalize. More follows… Related @ EconSM: Video Interview: Loic Le...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Yesterday I speculated that Seesmic raised a Series B. The news just got out, Seesmic raised 6 million dollars from Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners. Nice detail is that Loic Le Meur also took a role in the Wellington Partners team (as a Venture Partner). Loic is happy with his The Next Web Award and 6 [...]
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
TechCrunch mentions the fact Seesmic has raised another $6 million. My question is why? In a Skype conversation with Loic LeMeur, Seesmic's CEO I asked whether the company had burned through the first $6 million. The answer a flat no. I then recalled a conversation we had a while back where LeMeur had recommended attracting 'rock star' investors in the Series A round to attract the really big hitters...
Andy Coughlan's Screenwriting and Filmmaking Blog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Woke up this morning to find overnight there had been a fascinating contretemps brewing between two very cool web sites, both of which I’m a big fan of*. In the blue corner, replete with Raccoon, is Seesmic, run by the ever smiling French New Media Guru and founder of Le Web, Loic Le Meur. In the red [...]
