Video Conversation Platform Offers Movable Type Users New Levels of
Interactivity
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Seesmic
(http://www.seesmic.com), the online video conversation platform, today
announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, maker of professional
publishing platform Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.com) to provide
Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video
comments alongside traditional text-based comments through Seesmic's
plugin. Movable Type customers and their readers will also become part of
Seesmic's lively community. The introduction of the Movable Type plugin,
which follows Seesmic's recent integration with other services, reinforces
Seesmic's mission to allow people to join in video conversations as easily
and in as many ways as possible.
"We are excited to work with Six Apart and welcome their publishing
platform and websites to the Seesmic community. Commenting on stories is
quickly going beyond words -- it's also about audio, video, and
interactivity. With Seesmic, you can get a real sense of how things are
said and can respond in a more intuitive way," commented Loic Le Meur,
founder and CEO of Seesmic.
"We want to provide our customers with as many ways as possible to
interact and receive feedback on their Movable Type sites, so we are
pleased to welcome Seesmic's plugin into the family," said Michael Sippey,
VP of Product, Six Apart. "We think our customers and their readers will
enjoy this new way of exchanging opinions and thoughts. Movable Type's
extensibility makes this possible."
Seesmic enables people in disparate places to develop relationships and
express themselves across borders, cultures, and generations. Recent
community members include celebrities, US soldiers in Iraq, and people
looking for weight-loss support, amongst many others.
Seesmic video commentary is already in place on the following sites
powered by Movable Type:
-- Joi Ito (http://joi.ito.com/)
-- John Battelle (http://battellemedia.com/)
-- gapingvoid (http://gapingvoid.com/)
Link to enable Seesmic on Movable Type: Movable Type Plug-in
(http://plugins.movabletype.org/seesmic/)
About Seesmic
Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and
connect with each other online through video conversation. See and hear
people share their experiences straight from their webcams and mobile
phones, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with
real people. The Seesmic platform also enables video conversations on more
than a thousand sites, blogs and broadcasts them to other social software
such as Twitter and Friendfeed thanks to its robust API. Seesmic also
operates twhirl, a social desktop client that now enables Seesmic video
comments. twhirl represents 12% of Twitter messages being sent and has over
400,000 downloads. Founded in 2007, Seesmic is located in San Francisco,
California. For more information, please visit http://www.seesmic.com.
About Movable Type
Movable Type is the leading social publishing platform, powering the
websites and blogs of the world's largest media companies, Fortune 100
businesses, and power bloggers. Packed with professionally designed
templates and sophisticated publishing tools, Movable Type makes it easy to
implement, maintain and update an almost unlimited number of websites. Its
social media features enable site owners to build cutting-edge websites
that foster rich, interactive communities. Enterprise-friendly features
make it possible to integrate with enterprise databases and user management
directories such as LDAP. For more information about Movable Type, please
visit http://MovableType.com
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