Back in March at MIX10 in Las Vegas, we hosted a small reception for Seesmic at the Mandalay Bay resort. At the session, Loic Le Meur and his team showed an early prototype of the Seesmic Desktop and the associated plug-in development platform. A few intrepid developers rose up to the challenge and build some Silverlight based plug-ins that tied into the Seesmic platform. Now, with over 30 plug-ins, the Seesmic Desktop 2.0 is released. Here is a snapshot of my Seesmic and some highlights of a couple of plug-ins.
Note that in the sample here, I have a Facebook entry from my Aunt's art gallery in Florence, Italy. Unfortunately the Galleria Biagiotti updates are in Italian, but now, with the translation plugin, it automatically gets translated to English. Now, I can see my cousin's posts as well, and not worry about the cut and paste translation. That goes for Julien's posts from France and my friends in Brazil as well. This is great. You can also see the Bing map locator, tracking Graphic.ly's Micah in Indianapolis. You can see Foursquare on there too. You can also see the TwitterCounter detail there as well.
Now, call-out to all of you BizSpark developers, you can go here, get the SDK, and plug into the Seesmic framework. You'll need Visual Studio 2010, but if you have a startup, or decide to leverage the Seesmic platform and make one up, then you can get if from BizSpark, direct tweet me at @DaveDrach if you need some help. Real startups only, of course.
I really try to strive to use the applications that my BizSpark One companies are releasing and I am an avid user of Ping.fm, which is owned by Seesmic, and now I can dump twhirl (and Adobe Air) for the new and improved Seesmic Desktop 2.0. Built on Silverlight and running on both the PC and that other fruit brand.
Congrats to the Seesmic development team, and to Microsofties Nicolas Kardas and Daryll McDade for helping Seesmic get to launch.
Go get it at http://seesmic.com/desktop .
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