The plugin marketplace for Seesmic Desktop 2 has been a huge hit. With over 50 plugins available for download and many more to come, we realize it can get a little difficult to find the plugins that you need. Because of that, we're going to be featuring two plugins each week, in the Featured Plugin Series. So sit back and enjoy the power that is, SD2. 

Do you live online? Or, is what happens online more important than offline mode? Yeah, us too. Then, you're definitely need to try out the Cadmus plugin, a powerful service that manages your stream in real-time.

Cadmus helps by displaying the most relevant content from where you left off. What you have to gain is full-proof knowledge of what has been posted and catch up on what you have missed. 

To install the Cadmus plugin, just visit their section of the marketplace here. 

The plugin marketplace for Seesmic Desktop 2 has been a huge hit. With over 50 plugins available for download and many more to come, we realize it can get a little difficult to find the plugins that you need. Because of that, we're going to be featuring two plugins each week, in the Featured Plugin Series. So sit back and enjoy the power that is, SD2. 

Are you a media addict? Well, we've got just the integration for you. With Seesmic Desktop 2 and the rich plugin architecture, you can benefit from all the advantages of veiwing the newest articles and how much online appreciation they've gained directly from the Techmeme plugin.

You'll never look at news consumption the same. Interested in what Techmeme plugin has to offer? We are too.

• View top posts and their related items
• Share the tops through Seesmic Desktop 2
• Stay in touch with the biggest news in tech

To install the Techmeme plugin, just visit their section of the marketplace here.  

The plugin marketplace for Seesmic Desktop 2 has been a huge hit. With over 50 plugins available for download and many more to come, we realize it can get a little difficult to find the plugins that you need. Because of that, we're going to be featuring two plugins each week, in the Featured Plugin Series. So sit back and enjoy the power that is, SD2. 

Ektron, a web content management, social and marketing optimization software and solutions provider, today announced an eIntranet plug-in built with Seesmic Desktop 2 (SD2).  Ektron's eIntranet SD2 plug-in allows users to access enterprise activity streams on the desktop alongside Facebook, Google Apps, Twitter and other social network streams.

Here's what Ektron had to say about the plugin - "Status updates, microblogs, and activity streams have become the de facto standard for sharing information quickly.  Today's intranets must keep pace with the digital world and become a mashup of internal and external content and applications that employees easily can manage and adopt. The combination of Ektron's social business and collaboration application, eIntranet, with Seesmic underscores the business-critical need for forward-looking enterprise strategies that manage everything influencing both external and internal Web use," said Bill Rogers, founder and CEO of Ektron.  "Ektron will continue to align with innovative companies like Seesmic to provide comprehensive, integrated solutions that protect and measurably enhance customers' enterprise technology investments."

To install the Ektron plugin, just visit their section of the marketplace here. 

We're fighting to win the UCSF Children's hospital cause challenge. Please take 1 minute, go to the cause page and give $10 by clicking the donate button.

Influence matters much more than money. You should do it because

• It makes us happy and if you're our friend you will be happy to make us happy
• It's for a great cause of helping children in San Francisco
• We're fighting for victory with our friends Marc Benioff, Ashton Kutcher, Robert Scoble, TechCrunch, Zynga, Facebook, Ron Conway, Twitter, MC Hammer, Om Malik and more.

IT'S THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF $10 DONATIONS THAT WINS SO WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW [to kick Scoble's butt at least]

GO DONATE $10 NOW

We will pick a random $10 donation and give a free LeWeb conference pass, as well as for the largest donation as of Nov 19th. We will choose a winner on Nov 26th. Here's more about LeWeb.

Learn more about the UCSF Challenge for Children in the video below, make an impact, donate for the holidays and spread the word!

Packed Seesmic booth and keynote room for our demo of Salesforce Chatter integration in Seesmic Desktop, Web and Android in Paris this week. This was our third Salesforce event after London and Tokyo, all the pictures are on our Seesmic Facebook page. We should be launching our Chatter integration in a few weeks. Thanks Salesforce friends for inviting us on stage again.

The Salesforce No Software stars visited our booth

Our booth was packed non-stop

Salesforce customers were very interested in Seesmic social software solutions connected to Salesforce Chatter to monitor their brand and take action in Salesforce, or generate a lead.

and we had fun on stage with Alexandre Dayon and the Salesforce team

Sticking a raccoon on Alexandre Dayon

Loic, Pierre-Olivier Chotard, Jeremy and Mathieu

Jeremy and Mathieu in the packed keynote room

 

The plugin marketplace for Seesmic Desktop 2 has been a huge hit. With over 50 plugins available for download and many more to come, we realize it can get a little difficult to find the plugins that you need. Because of that, we're going to be featuring various plugins in the Featured Plugin Series.

... So we back in the club

Get that bodies rockin from side to side (side to side)

Thank God the week is done

I feel like a zombie gone back to life (back to life)...

- Usher "DJ Got Us Falling in Love"

During the course of the work week, while finishing reports, writing code and spending long hours in the office, most of us are listening to music to keep us motivated, helping us concentrate until the week is done. Some of us find that creativity flows and strategies pour while listening to our favorite beats.  One of the most popular social music apps to listen, find, browse and discover music among your friends is Last.fm. We're pretty pumped to have a Last.fm plugin available on Seesmic Desktop 2. 

If you're a subscriber to Last.fm, here's what you can do in Seesmic Desktop 2:  

• Play any custom artist, or tune to recommend radio stations
• View visualizations with the artist you are playing 
• View the bio of the artists, upcoming event, find the venues and see the lineup.

It's great to see music integrated into a social desktop application, even if it's just to get us through the week. What's best about the Last.fm plugin is the stunning visual features while playing your favorite stations. Go on and give it a try!

If you haven't downloaded SD2, you can do so here. To install the Last.fm plugin, just visit their section of the marketplace here. 

Keep an eye out for the next post from the Featured Plugin Series, and we'll see you on SD2!

Over the weekend, Loic was a guest-host at This Week in Tech led by everyone's favorite technology guru, Leo Laporte (@leolaporte). Along with guests, John C Dvorak (@THErealDVORAK - follow him!) and Lisa Bettany (@mostlylisa), the team covered all the tech news we all need to know in a friendly conversation. Coincidentally, it happened to be Halloween!

Some of the conversation topics included:

    * Facebook Acquiring Drop.io

    * Facebook's mobile event set for November 3rd

    * Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself

    * Firesheep makes stealing your cookies, accessing your Facebook account laughably easy

    * Is Google TV ready for prime time?

    * 1 billion YouTube subscriptions and counting and YouTube CEO & Co-Founder Stepping Down

    * Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook

    * Samsung to unveil new Android device November 8th



You can download the podcast in audio or video and see what was shared. We recommend downloading the video to see the various halloween costumes (thanks @gaberivera)...

Watch 30 videos to build your own brand using social networks to learn step by step the power of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and more networks in marketing yourself or your brand. Here is the video series on YouTube also available as an iTunes podcast.

1. Introduction

2. Setup your accounts

3. What you learned, unlearn it

4. What you can share

5. How you can update all networks

6. Listen and interact

7. Public search

8. How to get more Facebook fans and Twitter followers

9. Create a feedback forum

10. Use email, no kidding

11. Meet your community

12. Use Google Reader to share on your social networks

13. You should start a blog, too

14. Video is the best way to build your brand

15.  Share what you learn: read a book for example

16. Product reviews help you get traction

17. How you can use location

18. Answer questions from your community

19. Reach the influencers

20. How to measure success

21. Social commerce

22. Pilot all your social networks in one screen

23. Use lists to filter your streams

24. Share your presentations

25. Manage your business like you're on Facebook

26. How to monetize

27. Get your site ready for Facebook

28. Manage the negative feedback

29. Don't be negative yourself

30. It's not about you, it's about them

Please give us your feedback and questions you would like us to address for the season2!

Thanks to all the voluntary translators in our community who helped and are still helping (more language transcripts posted soon email Alexandra at seesmic dot com if you want to help translating) get the transcript in other languages as well as Whit Scott for the video production and Kathleen Murray for the initial english transcript. Oh and thanks Ricardo Sousa and Alexandra Oana Dumitru for helping coordinate the ongoing translation.



Here is what we learned about using YouTube as a medium.

When two tweets don't even made our day, they made our entire week. How could a week end better than Dell's creator and CEO Michael Dell tweeting about how he likes Seesmic for Android on his Dellstreak and Seesmic for Windows Phone7 on his brand new Dell Venue Pro!

Thanks Michael, Salesforce Chatter is coming in a matter of days (watch our keynote with Marc Benioff) to Seesmic for Android and will come to WP7 and all our products soon, we also love Chatter and Dell! Now you got the entire Seesmic team totally pumped to get it out even sooner!

We're pleased to introduce Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, an exciting new beginning to the way we understand social networking on a mobile platform. Search for Seesmic on the Marketplace and join us for a new mobile adventure.

With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, you can generate not only quality content, but design the app according to your needs. With a natural and intuitive interface, Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 brings a different flavor to mobile navigation, with a fluid and organized flow of the app within the device itself.

Add your Twitter and Facebook accounts, update your status on multiple Twitter accounts, access user profile, upload links, pictures, or geotag your tweets. You can organize your accounts, searches, lists and trending topics, all in a customized dashboard and navigate through it so easily and interactively.

The dashboard of your choice

When you first open Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, the Home Panorama will win you over! Select  an array of 20 spaces, and swipe through the screens to visit  Trending Topics, Seesmic Directories  and even directly introduce a new Twitter Search.

Accessing Twitter and Cross-Posting Multiple Accounts

You can upload multiple Twitter accounts and not send your update just to one or to all of them at once. Swipe between screens, select the space of your interest and engage with your friends online. View your Home timeline, Replies, Messages, the Lists you follow or are following you, Search and discover UsersProfiles in a unique interface.

Adding your Facebook account

We're excited to also share that Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 also comes with Facebook integration. Whether you choose to view your feed, read comments or see how many Likes your posts receive, Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 makes it  easy! Feel free to comment or Like in a second with Windows Phone 7.

Directories

Find some of the most popular twitter accounts in Sports, News, Music, Celebrities, or Humor. All the topics that can make you a real time trendsetter with the all the details that you know, or a smashing entertainer, select the updates from the Directories section.

Trending Topics

Swipe the screen to the right and you’ll land in Trending Topics: all that’s hot on Twitter, is shown on your Seesmic for Windows Phone 7. You can even save a Trend feed as a single space in the dashboard.

Share updates, photos, location and shorten links

Not only does Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 makes it easy to share with your friends, but it also includes great features like viewing a pictures and locations in-line. With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 you can send the news to multiple Twitter accounts, take a new picture or select one from your Media Galery, and shorten links to have more character space.

Search

With the Search functionality on Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, don't miss out a thing as you have the proper search tools. When viewing Search from your Twitter account, you can either look for tweets with a certain piece of information, specific usernames or go through nearby tweets. As your interests are on top of anything else, you can save a search in a specific space and assign it to a Twitter account.

Twitter Lists

With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, you can load and organize your dashboard to include lists from your Twitter accounts. You can view public and personal lists or fallow the ones that have included you.

Settings

Which mobile apps are complete without a powerful Settings view? Why not make the experience on the Windows Phone 7 complete and arrange the app to meet your expectations. In the Settings section, you can select the number of tweets that enter your timeline, chose the media service you desire to upload your pictures and show your Location. You can also view how many friends consider your links valuable, by adding your Bit.ly credentials.

Native and Traditional Retweets

The Windows Phone 7, just as the rest of the Seesmic apps, are developed to meet more than one simple need, but aiming at a complete integration. In the Twitter timeline, you can chose Native Retweet or Quote, if you believe you have more to add.

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