DISQUS

angurax99 · 1 year ago

Seesmic? So, what's the difference between this "video social networking platform" ( need a tiny url for this mouthful) and watching umpteen zillion private TV channels?

RobinGood · 1 year ago

Supposedly that:

1. You can have actual conversations with your favorite friends

2. You can be part of those conversations

Watching umpteen zillions private TV channels, Seesmic users or Twitter
feeds from people you have nothing to do with are all immense time-wasters
and among the most superficial and useless of all online social activities.

angurax99 · 1 year ago

I get it. With Seesmic now I can have superficial and useless online conversations with all
my favorite friends! Gee, I thought I'd mastered that already with clunky old e-mail. Call it what
you may but all I perceive is one Seesmic Alpha Male with a gaggle of subordinates-on-
steriods hoping their start up will be the next big thing so they can cash out to Google or MIcrosoft. Money, after all, is the bottom line. That's not a bad thing but I don't think they're reinventing the wheel.

RobinGood · 1 year ago

Well, it is easy to be critical of something just by looking at its surface.

I think Seesmic has ventured into interesting grounds and I say so after
having spent some time looking and experimenting with it. I think that to
provide some insight to everyone else reading you need to go and make some
good use of it yourself.

Youtube itself, that miserable failure bought by Google, didn't look like
much anything where great ideas or a new theory of relativity would
emerge... so, while I am not sold to them becoming a success, I am certainly
endorsing their path as worthwhile one to experiment on.

I wouldn't judge Seesmic by the superficial content that most of the early
users are now making there. There is time to wait for this to mature, but I
am quite confident that distributed video conversations do have a future
online.

angurax99 · 1 year ago

Well, I think it’s considerably more difficult to play the Devil’s Advocate rather than jumping on the bandwagon with everybody else from the outset. Provide insight to everyone else? Why should I? People will surely develop their own insight regardless of mine. I’m not my brother’s keeper. I’m simply making a contrary observation. Isn’t that what all this electronic egalitarianism is for? Certainly it’s a worthwhile experiment. Experimentation is unequivocally crucial to the human race. But I wouldn’t call it an especially great idea, nor include it in the same company as Albert Einstein’s genius. That’s a bit of a stretch. If it matures, great. If it doesn’t it’ll be a blip on the radar lost in space.

RobinGood · 1 year ago

Amen