Messing around in Seesmic

Seesmic is a conversational video messaging service currently in alpha. Access is invitation only right now and although the serrvice still has a long list of flaws and needed improvements before it arrives in the public realm it's shaping up quite well.

Founded by French blogger and entrepreneur Loic Lemeur, Seesmic allows users to post videos directly from a computer or mobile phone to the Seesmic application. Other users can follow these and respond with their own video posts inside Seesmic. It's simple and it works. The relatively fast flow created by a group of people interacting in this way creates a series of almost instant conversations. The video's can also be embedded in a users blogpage.

The conversational speed resembles a Twitter exchange, as opposed to that of videoblogging which remains more closely aligned to the traditional idea of a broadcast transmission by the creator to an audience.

The audiences ability to comment and feedback almost instantaneously helps create an interesting back and forth dynamic to the interactions. One of the nicer aspects of the service, is that everybody gets to finish their sentences and nobody interrupts.

It's already clear that even in these early day social video networks can further extend the possibilities of relating online creating new conversational dynamics and relationships in the process.

Below are a couple of examples of my own Seesmic postings.