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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!

Software That Makes Twitter So Much Tweeter

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on July 14, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Twitter messaging can be improved by employing software programs that customize it and require little work on the part of the user, Katherine Boehret writes in The Mossberg Solution.

Voices

Guy Kawasaki Can Handle Being Called a Spammer

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 24, 2009 at 11:33 am PT

To kick off his keynote speech at SES, a marketing conference in New York, Guy Kawasaki asked how many people in the audience were on Twitter at that moment. Hands shot up across the packed ballroom. “Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of,” he said.

Another Twitter App Funded: TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan

Peter Kafka in Media on January 16, 2009 at 4:54 am PT

Yes, you can still get someone to invest in a Web start-up with zero revenue. It helps if you can insert the word “Twitter” into your pitch, though. Meet TweetDeck, a one-man outfit that makes free software that organizes your Twitter stream.

Birds of a Feather Twitter Together

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 2, 2008 at 5:20 pm PT

If you’ve heard of Twitter but don’t exactly know what it is or how it works, you’re in good company. In the past two months a bunch of my friends, ranging in age from early 20s to late 30s, have asked me about Twitter–or Tweeter, as one person accidentally called it. To clear things up, I’ve put together a basic Twitter guide that explains how to use it, Twitter lingo, privacy options, mobile applications that can be used with the service and problems that it has.