![]() ![]() In August 2011, Seesmic announced it was moving into the Customer Relations Management business, releasing Android and iOS CRM apps that interfaced with. Seesmic for BlackBerry - a native Twitter client for BlackBerry - discontinued in June 2011.Seesmic for iPhone - a native Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm client for iPhone and iPod Touch.Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 - a native Twitter, Facebook, and Salesforce Chatter client for Windows Phone 7.Seesmic for Android - a native Twitter client, Facebook, and Salesforce Chatter client for Android.Seesmic Web - a Twitter web application client for Twitter written using Google Web Toolkit.Version 2 was rewritten in Microsoft Silverlight and added support for Google Buzz. Seesmic Desktop - a cross platform Twitter and Facebook desktop client written using Adobe AIR.Seesmic produced a number of social network clients including: In March, 2010, Seesmic reached 1 million registered users. In January, 2010 Seesmic acquired Ping.fm. It was backed by a number of investors, the primary one being Atomico, a venture group that includes Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Le Meur moved from Paris to San Francisco to relaunch Seesmic due to the perception that it would stand a better chance of success there. The video site, whilst remaining available, was relegated to a different domain name. He refocused the site, changing the objective from creating a new video social networking site to creating a suite of tools that would instead aggregate content from other social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. In 2009, Loïc Le Meur, Seesmic's founder, announced that the video portion of the site had stagnated as it struggled to attract new users. On 3 April 2008, Seesmic announced that it had purchased Twhirl, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client. It had 20,000 users and 70,000 viewers per month as of 2008. Seesmic made its debut at the Demo tech conference where it was called the "Twitter of video". Starting out life as a video blogging website, its original aim was to make video uploading from webcams easier to promote online video conversations. Following the failure to monetize the company, in 2011 Seesmic was relaunched yet again as a customer relations management app. Le Meur shut down the service in 2009 due to its stagnating user base, and then relaunched Seesmic as a social networking tool, with a suite of desktop, mobile and web apps integrating streams from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. ![]() ![]() Launched in 2008 by French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur, the service was initially a video sharing website, billed as a cross between YouTube and Twitter, allowing short video comments to be published online. Seesmic was a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allowed users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. IOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS (Mobile)Ĭustomer relationship management, Social media He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.Microsoft Windows, Mac OS (Desktop) Linux (Web) Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. ![]()
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