5 posts and columns on FON

Loïc Le Meur Speaks About New (and Improved?) Seesmic!

in News on September 18, 2009 at 4:11 am PT

When BoomTown went to visit serial entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur early last year at his San Francisco HQ, he was stoked about the prospects of his “video conversation” community start-up. Fast-forward to today and the entire business plan of Seesmic has been upended, with the video part pretty much junked. Now Le Meur is focused almost entirely on his social media desktop client, as well as Web and mobile versions, which began as a dashboard for Twitter. If at first you don’t succeed, dump and change again–the motto of Silicon Valley!
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words–So What Does a Big Smile in a Layoff Story Mean?

in News on October 27, 2008 at 9:42 am PT

Happy days aren’t here again, it seems. Still, I am not quite sure what to make of his big, happy smile on Seesmic founder Loïc Le Meur’s face, which went with a story in the New York Times about start-ups cutting costs. In fact, the whole Seesmic crew is grinning awfully hard, putting a very game face on recent layoffs that cut the staff at the video blog service by more than a third.

Seesmic, Hear Me, Touch Me, Feel Me

in News on December 28, 2007 at 4:01 am PT

OK, you might attribute it to being super-bored in the holiday doldrums. But, for some reason I cannot explain, I find myself strangely drawn to the videos being made about the start-up of Seesmic, the new video-sharing service that is being created by European entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur. Up on his own loic.tv channel on [...]

Kara Visits the Monaco Media Forum: Opening Dinner

in News on November 9, 2007 at 12:03 am PT

So, the Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo kicked off last night with a dinner at the famed Hermitage Hotel on the Square Beaumarchais. It was a fancy gold-leaf setting for the gathering of Silicon Valley and European digital media execs, investors and entrepreneurs, a kickoff to two days of discussion about the state of tech [...]

A Matador in San Francisco Fights for Wireless

in News on August 22, 2007 at 1:50 am PT

A bullfighter in a San Francisco Starbucks complaining about high wireless fees to jack in while sipping coffee? Actually, this is a very sly ad for FON, the Spain-based company trying to build a global community of Foneras, people who share their wireless connection using special routers and in turn get to use the WiFi [...]