Seesmic

Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon for Between $25 Million and $35 Million

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm PT

Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at upward of $25 million. Manymoon makes one of the more popular tools on Google’s apps platform.

Seesmic Raises $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce.com

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 5:39 am PT

In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank. The San Francisco-based Seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumer’s various feeds from Twitter, Facebook and more.

Is the Facebook "Like" Button Like a Twitter RT? Loic Le Meur Talks About the Impact of the Giant Moves on Start-Ups

Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Here’s an interesting interview BoomTown did with Seesmic Founder and CEO Loic Le Meur, whose status update client is one of the more popular ones, at the Facebook f8 developers conference last week. In it, he talked about the various new features of Facebook that make it “very, very close to Twitter.” While it is true that Seesmic is more than just a Twitter client, Le Meur has to hope that competition between the microblogging service and the social networking giant is a good thing for smaller start-ups in their ecosystem, such as Seesmic.

How Did Twitter Pass Yahoo in Search? With Robots, of Course!

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2010 at 1:12 pm PT

If you’re a regular person, you probably rarely search for something on Twitter. Because search on Twitter is a lousy experience. So how is Twitter generating more queries than Yahoo?

Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 3:12 pm PT

Twitter has started showing ads to its users. But there’s a host of start-ups trying to do the same thing. They can all play together, says COO Dick Costolo, as long as they don’t cause “user confusion.” Careful…

LIVE from New York: Twitter Pitches Ads to Madison Avenue

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

Twitter has quietly been reaching out to marketers about its new ad platform for a few months, but now it’s a full-fledged marketing blitz. COO Dick Costolo takes his marketing message to ad buyers.

Paid Search Inventor Bill Gross Moves to Monetize Tweets With TweetUp–And Without Twitter (Plus Screenshots)

Kara Swisher in News on April 11, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Just as Twitter finally prepares to announce its plans to make money–after what has seemed an eternity–the man responsible for the invention of paid search is beating the microblogging site to the potentially profitable punch, and without its involvement. Armed with $3.5 million in venture funding from a group of leading investors, well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross is launching a public beta of TweetUp, a bidding marketplace akin to Overture/Goto.com, the first paid search system he created a decade ago.

Almost Famous: Brizzly's Chris Wetherell

Voices, Intern, All Things Digital in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

This week: A video visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Chris Wetherell and his creation, Brizzly, a Web-based social media reader.

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

Kara Swisher 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!