{"id":2314,"date":"2008-04-04T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T14:26:25","slug":"seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/04\/04\/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Seesmic and Twhirl: Why all the fuss?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the hot story that is currently top of the pops on Techmeme<\/a> is that Loic LeMeur’s video-streaming service Seesmic has bought Twhirl. Or rather, Seesmic has acquired Marco Kaiser<\/a>, who developed Twhirl. Just one question: Why is this such a huge deal? Is it a slow news day? I could see everyone getting excited if Seesmic had bought Twitter itself — but Twhirl is just a client for accessing Twitter, right?<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong — I think Twhirl is great, and I use it all the time. It’s a great example of an app built using Adobe’s AIR platform, and it has a lot of cool features. But why should I care whether Seesmic owns it now or not? I know Marshall thinks that this is a vision of the Web’s future<\/a>, but I have to say I remain skeptical on that front (and it seems like others, including my friend Om Malik, share some of that skepticism<\/a>). If what this deal means is that I get more “I’m streaming — come chat!” invitations every 10 minutes on Twitter, then count me out.<\/p>\n

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So the hot story that is currently top of the pops on Techmeme is that Loic LeMeur’s video-streaming service Seesmic has bought Twhirl. Or rather, Seesmic has acquired Marco Kaiser, who developed Twhirl. Just one question: Why is this such a huge deal? Is it a slow news day? I could see everyone getting excited … <\/p>\n

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