Comments on: Phreadz – A Little Like Seesmic, But Trying To Do More

By: Will Twitter block monetization attempts

Will Twitter block monetization attempts — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:14:53 +0000

[...] Phreadz – A Little Like Seesmic, But Trying To Do More [...]

By: Le blog de Laurent Wattieaux-Marquet

Le blog de Laurent Wattieaux-Marquet — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:50:18 +0000

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By: Seesmic vs. Phreadz — I stick to Seesmic. Not Enough Time to Manage More Accounts | Jenaelee

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:41:15 +0000

[...] on Seesmic and keep it at a controlled minimum or my life will get out of hand. I stumbled upon this article on TechCrunch, and realized that there were more than one “Seesmics” so to speak. [...]

By: 12Seconds.tv Releases Video Status API (500 More Invites)

12Seconds.tv Releases Video Status API (500 More Invites) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:45:36 +0000

[...] startups including micro-review site Blippr (I call it the Twitter for reviews), Phreadz (another video micro-blogging service), and TweetDeck (an AIR client Twitter client). Below are screen shots for the Blippr and TweetDeck [...]

By: The Real Video Twitter: 12seconds.tv (500 Alpha Invites)

The Real Video Twitter: 12seconds.tv (500 Alpha Invites) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:05:34 +0000

[...] it with 10 employees working for burritos. Besides Seesmic, 12seconds.tv also competes with the UK’s Phreadz. Here are a couple sample [...]

By: Josh Millstein

Josh Millstein — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:07 +0000

I was just pointed to this site by a friend. I created socialsaga.com two years ago and is much in the same vein as phreadz, threaded multimedia conversations. I had good luck at 2007 sxsw awards winning the people’s choice award and have now implemented the technology at H & R Block. digits.hrblock.com I’m currently working on version two and really believe the product is going to blow away the first version I created. Maybe there could be a joint effort to combine technologies and turn it open source, especially considering both products have been created by just one person a piece. Not a lot of B.S to deal with in situations like that.

By: le blog à Ollie » Liens du jour

le blog à Ollie » Liens du jour — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:28:29 +0000

[...] Phreadz, encore en alpha privée, est un nouveau service de conversation vidéo à la Seesmic mais qui se propose d’intégrer également images, textes, sons et hyperliens. Via TechCrunch. [...]

By: trademanufacturer.com

trademanufacturer.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:12:57 +0000

KOSSO JB

By: Marketing on Phreadz

Marketing on Phreadz — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:59:27 +0000

[...] TechCrunch and TechCrunch UK featured Phreadz, a new threaded social multimedia conversation network. Now that [...]

By: Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite

Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:09:54 +0000

I was WOWed with Seesmic and I am blow away by Phreadz. I agree with Peter and have to add how Sony took over the Video Gaming industry with its Playstation. Do you even remember the Atari Jaguar or that Sega had its own gaming console before it got out of the hardware market and went strictly software. I am so looking forward to the next wave.
Bring it ON!

All the best

By: Dean Whitbread

Dean Whitbread — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:07:28 +0000

“Kosso is on Seesmic and find it funny that he came up with the same concept???? Maybe a copycat?”

There are other players in this market already – http://www.poodz.com are French, and so is Loic – maybe they are a copycat also ? I think not.

The concept of video chat / comments / interaction has been around a long while.

What makes one system work and another not work is the quality of the userbase, and what attracts users is 1. features and 2. whether their friends are there (or not).

Why Twitter and not Pownce? Just because Twitter for some reason pulled them in and Pownce as yet did not.

I agree with Tiil above – this kind of competition will cause the players to lift their game and that is a good thing.

By: The Hater

The Hater — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:39:29 +0000

Never mind, just one dude. Respect.

By: The Hater

The Hater — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:34:38 +0000

Christ, hire a freakin’ designer. That looks terrible.

By: tiil

tiil — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:38:05 +0000

This “battle” between various social net. app. is a very positive thing. It remind me of the cubist period in Paris when Artist like Picasso and Braque used to compete and copy each other in order to create a new style, a new way to re-present reality on a flat surface. This time is long gone… but maybe the art of today is occurring on our screens and the brush has been re-placed by the code!
So keep coding!

By: Kosso

Kosso — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:17:58 +0000

BTW: I have just updated a blog post to help the ‘naysayers’ and ‘yaysayers’ duke it out

http://kosso.wo...-apes-and-cats/

By: Phreadz Apes and Cats? « kosso’s braingarden

Phreadz Apes and Cats? « kosso’s braingarden — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:22:37 +0000

[...] Phreadz, qik, rss, seesmic, video, YouTube It’s nice to be compared to a success. But I’ve seen some people ask if Phreadz is ‘aping’ Seesmic or simply a [...]

By: Kosso

Kosso — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:56:38 +0000

@Kino Sure, I’ve played on Seesmic. I’ve been involved in creative R&D in multimedia for many years. But a copycat? Not at all. No more a copycat than any site which uses Flash Communication/Media Server to record video in the browser could be accused of. Is Seesmic a copycat of YouTube video comments? No.

Odeo were very successful in implementing just audio recording (to start with) in order to create mp3 files as a podcast. Phreadz also has this feature too – with audio or video.

The feature set, the presentation and ‘available angles’ are quite different from Seesmic. (And certainly the money behind it)

Oddly enough, Phreadz has a YouTube, Qik & Seesmic channel experiment running – where people can pull in a post from these places (and more to come) and start a multimedia conversation around that post (Seesmic does this with YouTube video, for example) – but people could reply using audio or a photo, for example. The a lot of opportunity for ‘mashups’ like this here.
Every user, channel and even *post* has its own full RSS feed (with media and enclosures)

Phreadz will also be letting the users apply Creative Commons licensing to *their* content/posts – rather like Flickr does with photos (and now video)

Phreadz is also a tool to distribute your posts to other places which you might have an account – even Seesmic! eg: I record a video to start a conversation and I can check a box to send a copy of that video to my blip.tv account, embed it in my blog and send a link to my Twitter account – and even send the video to my Seesmic account – all from one place. (Though I will be going through everyone’s ToS to see what implications / limitations there might be there)

I use all these sites and systems all the time. I just wanted a way to make it easier and save time. So I decided to build it – because I could. I have talked about the concept of Phreadz long before Seesmic appeared on the scene – and arguably since Macromedia first released Flash Communication Server in 2002 (or at least the Flash video aspect).

I have been waiting a very long time for people to catch up and *want* to post this sort of choice and mix of content.

I’ll be doing a full explanation of all this and a lot more on my blog very soon! – Sorry for the *braindump* here

thanks EVERYONE!

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:57:12 +0000

It’s a good question though, how many social networks can a person keep up with and still 1) keep a job, 2) look after a family, and 3) have a real-life social life. I’m on about 7 and it’s just too many especially when some of the same people are on different networks. But which ones to cut out?

I expect some contraction in the growth of new social networks by the end of the summer. Put that in your calendar!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:21:41 +0000

“it is going further than Seesmic by pushing the envelope on the concept by interweaving video, images, text, audio and links all into these video conversations”

I think this is exactly what Seesmic needs.

Awesome that Kosso did this all himself. Can’t wait to see it myself.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:57:05 +0000

Kosso lets combine forces, you have a great product but its limited contact me.
I am currnetly close to close 3.5 mil for my comapny and think we should really talk. I am serious have met with some massive investors from the UK. Would love to talk.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:51:57 +0000

I agree, kinda weird to have all those people looking. It will be interesting to see how this service evolves.

By: Adele McAlear

Adele McAlear — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:35:59 +0000

As a pre-alfalfa tester on Phreadz I am amazed at how the functionality has continually exceeded my expectations. It is quite different from Seesmic. In fact, because of the multi-media aspect, it is likely closer to Utterz – but infinitely easier to navigate! There is no other video platform out there that has the ability to integrate video, images, text, audio and links, via desktop or mobile, into a conversation thread. Add to that channels, and Kosso has created a true original. I wish him every success with Phreadz.

By: Kino Lim

Kino Lim — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:18:45 +0000

Kosso is on Seesmic and find it funny that he came up with the same concept???? Maybe a copycat?

By: Joseph Hunkins

Joseph Hunkins — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:49:24 +0000

What am I missing about video? It takes 5-10x the time to produce and upload you idea/post/webcast and 10x the time to view it compared to reading words. Sure it’s neat for a few things, but this personal casting will never monetize well and will never hit mainstream users who are still years away from fully utilizing simple photo sharing.

By: Zm

Zm — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:03:32 +0000

LOL

Candasse is pretty funny (in a good way). Kudos to them.