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First social deal of 2010: Seesmic acquires Ping.fm, expands team

January 4th, 2010

Will 2010 be the year of acquisitions in the social media world?  Only 4 days into the new year and we have our first social media deal, and this one is quite interesting.

Loïc Le Meur, CEO of the social networking application player Seesmic, has announced its acquisition of social status updater Ping.fm.  This deal now positions Seesmic as the leader in social status management via their application suite on the web, desktop and mobile platforms.

Ping.fm enables social status updates across  50 social networks and will bring over 500,000 current users to Seesmic.  In addition, Ping.fm co-founders Adam Duffy and Sean McCullough will be joining the Seesmic full time and are now shareholders in the combined company.

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What’s next for Twitter via Le Web

December 9th, 2009

twitter_logo_smallLe Web, the European Internet conference being held in Paris, has been a platform for a number of interesting presentations and discussions over the last 24 hours.  Everything from Youtube founder Chad Hurley’s Formula 1 investment plans to a fireside-like chat with Google’s VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer can be found at this years Le Web, so far – the conference still has one more day to go.  However, perhaps the most eventful presentation of the day was on by Twitter’s Director of Platform, Ryan Sarver who shared a number of rather significant announcements.

RyanSarverWhile Sarver may not have share the same rock-star banner that Hurley and Mayer had at Le Web, his announcements have set forth a new stage in Twitter’s evolution into a full-blown platform for the social media.

With now over 50,000 registered applications built using Twitter APIs, the product platform roadmap Sarver outlined is driven by the following agenda:

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