Yesterday during a live presentation event, mirrored on Ustream, Seesmic demonstrated and released a preview version of their new social network gateway application, Seesmic Desktop.
Seesmic is best known for their video, social networking service where users can exchange or broadcast video messages from their computer. Seesmic is also responsible for developing Twhirl, running on the Adobe Air platform, which allows management of their Seesmic videos as well as other social networks such as Twitter, FriendFeed, and Identi.ca in a single desktop application. Using Adobe Air allows Seesmic Desktop (and Twhirl) to run on any system capable of running the Air platform and provides feature parity, a definite plus for a small software company. The software should run on OS X, Windows 98, and Windows Vista. Support for Ubuntu is hopefully coming soon.
Tuesday night from their San Francisco location, Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic, demonstrated the new application that the company has been working on and describing the plans for the software. Seesmic Desktop will be eventually replacing Twhirl, but all of the features from the latter will be migrated to Seesmic Desktop. Le Meur stated that due to the small size of the company, it did not make sense to split their resources to maintain both applications. The preview version, released to members of Team Seesmic right after the demo, currently only manages multiple Twitter accounts, but other services will be added soon.
Thomas Knoll, Seesmic’s Community Advocate, explained that there is much to do, but that they had decided that they wanted to get the software into people’s hands to “kick the tires” and get suggestions for which features to prioritize. Thomas says that the objective of Seesmic Desktop is not just to act as a social service aggregator, but to eventually leverage features that will allow users to manage “communities” within all of their networks.
If you want to get your hands on the preview, go to the Seesmic web site and sign up for Team Seesmic. You will also need to install Adobe Air for your system.
Yesterday during a live presentation event, mirrored on Ustream, Seesmic demonstrated and released a preview version of their new social network gateway application, Seesmic Desktop.
Seesmic is best known for their video, social networking service where users can exchange or broadcast video messages from their computer. Seesmic is also responsible for developing Twhirl, running on the Adobe Air platform, which allows management of their Seesmic videos as well as other social networks such as Twitter, FriendFeed, and Identi.ca in a single desktop application. Using Adobe Air allows Seesmic Desktop (and Twhirl) to run on any system capable of running the Air platform and provides feature parity, a definite plus for a small software company. The software should run on OS X, Windows 98, and Windows Vista. Support for Ubuntu is hopefully coming soon.
Tuesday night from their San Francisco location, Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic, demonstrated the new application that the company has been working on and describing the plans for the software. Seesmic Desktop will be eventually replacing Twhirl, but all of the features from the latter will be migrated to Seesmic Desktop. Le Meur stated that due to the small size of the company, it did not make sense to split their resources to maintain both applications. The preview version, released to members of Team Seesmic right after the demo, currently only manages multiple Twitter accounts, but other services will be added soon.
Thomas Knoll, Seesmic’s Community Advocate, explained that there is much to do, but that they had decided that they wanted to get the software into people’s hands to “kick the tires” and get suggestions for which features to prioritize. Thomas says that the objective of Seesmic Desktop is not just to act as a social service aggregator, but to eventually leverage features that will allow users to manage “communities” within all of their networks.
If you want to get your hands on the preview, go to the Seesmic web site and sign up for Team Seesmic. You will also need to install Adobe Air for your system.