As mobile web usage increases, conference attendees need real-time, updated information on the go that can be accessible from mobile devices. Mobile Roadie, a startup that helps develops iPhone apps, has developed the official iPhone app for LeWeb, the foremost European technology conference organized by French entrepreneur and Seesmic founder, Loic Le Meur and his wife, Geraldine. LeWeb 2009 is set...
[From Loic Le Meur ] Hello Team Seesmic friends, We have just updated our Android Seesmic application, it is much faster and we fixed many bugs that you reported. Please go to the Android markeplace with your phone and search...
The dust has settled on the PDC 2009 and unlike previous events where I have tried to blog at the event, I decided this time around that it was just too hard to do and that a more considered review a few days after the event may work better. Here goes… I’m really only going to focus on the keynotes and a few sessions I found intriguing – I actually attended less sessions that I...
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog: Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic Web is +30%/month — There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down. We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic. Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number of Tweets [...]
Loic Le Meur Blog: Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic.com is +30%/month — There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down. We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic. Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number of Tweets posted growing.
I'm looking forward to Le Web in Paris Dec 9 - 10. It seems like it will be "Silicon Valley Goes To Paris" because of the large number of people I know that will be there. Loic Le Meur's Le Web conference has an excellent reputation for quality, and I'm told the food is marvelous too. I'll be part of the "Traveling Geeks" group, the same organization that organized the summer trip...
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the Android and BlackBerry, which are now available for download...
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp , Seesmic's Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn't giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that's a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you'd expect a canned response along the lines of "we may do that in the future"...
The popular Twitter application from Seesmic is moving away from the Adobe AIR platform and over to Windows where it will use .NET and WPF technologies. The company also announced a Silverlight version is in the works for some sometime next year which will re-introduce the cross-platform capabilities previously offered via Adobe AIR. Considering that some of the top Twitter applications currently...
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right. Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference , Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty cool stuff. Sponsor It's a sure way to show your chops when you get Matt Mullenweg...
Loic Le Meur, founder and chief executive of Seesmic, demonstrated a new Windows version of Seesmic’s desktop console for managing your alerts and accounts in Twitter and Facebook today at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. After the presentation, Le Meur told me this is part of a big bet that Seesmic is making on Microsoft and Windows. The current version of...
During this morning’s keynote at PDC09 – Seesmic Founder Loic Le Meur joined Ray Ozzie on stage to make a very important announcement regarding the future of Seesmic. Seesmic focuses on bringing many of your favorite social networking services like Twitter and Facebook together into a single application so you don’t have to bounce between those services. They are best known for their...
Today brings good news for PC users everywhere. Seesmic is launching a native desktop client for Windows. Seesmic's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur made the announcement today at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Le Meur says that providing a desktop client that was native for Windows was of huge importance because 80 percent of Seesmic users run their apps on a PC. There...
At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference , Seesmic's 's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur just announced that the company will release a native Windows client of its popular Twitter client later today. Seesmic developed this client on top of .NET . As Le Meur told us yesterday, the new client will be faster and use significantly less memory than the current AIR client. In addition, Seesmic will...