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Seesmic Raises $4 Million, Bringing Them To A Total Of $16 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:28:45 +0000

Seesmic is a social media application company based in San Francisco that enables people to send out mass updates on Twitter and other services. Seesmic competes directly with TweetDeck. Earlier this month Seesmic has raised $4 million in a new round of funding from Salesforce.com, Softbank Group, Atomico, Omidyar Network, and Wellington Partners. Seesmic has raised a total of $16 million thus far.

Loic Le Meur Announces Seesmic Desktop 2, Goes Way Beyond Twitter

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:47:05 +0000

Seesmic Desktop 2 has recently been announced by Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur. Seesmic was previously known to track all-things-Twitter in real-time, but this new version goes beyond the micro-blogging service.

Loic said that they “want to be the first platform for platforms.” Seesmic runs on Microsoft Silverlight and has a plugin architecture that lets you install Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Foursquare, MySpace, Google Reader, Salesforce Chatter, eBay, Last.fm, Groupon, Flickr, and Klout support. There is a bevy of options for Seesmic Desktop 2.

“The inspiration to build SD2 came from the understanding that our users desired support of many different social services, more than just Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn,” said Le Meur. You can customize the desktop software any way you want. “If you don’t like Foursquare, you can filter out Foursquare.”

Seesmic also has a plugin Marketplace where you can search and download plugins. Eventually Seesmic Desktop will have paid plugins, but all of the existing plugins are free.

Seesmic also has an SDK and even offered companies to work with Seesmic’s engineering team for building plugins. Seesmic even hired third-party development company tequilarapido to build some popular plugins.

[TechCrunch]

Seesmic Browser Makes Using Twitter As Easy As GMail

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:14:28 +0000

Seesmic, the video commenting and Twitter platform company founded by Loic Le Meur has developed a new browser that will be debuted at the Real-Time Street CrunchUp event today. The Seesmic Browser looks very similar to GMail when it comes to the user interface and has support for Twitter.

At the top of the browser is a messages button to read direct messages that you have been sent. Next to that is an text field for users to update their status. And then there is a search engine next to the text field for finding tweets.

Although the Seesmic Browser currently only supports Twitter, Facebook integration will be added to the browser soon. Different columns in the browser represents different functions. For example, one column may have direct messages, another column will have replies sent, and another column will have the ability to message or follow/unfollow a user.

[via TechCrunch]