Video Twitter
All of these services are free right now and it's not obvious how they hope to make money. This is hardly surprising as Facebook and Twitter are in the same position and this is today's web business model.
Eventually, Le Meur intends to start charging for premium versions of Seesmic Desktop. There's also the opportunity to charge for other services, like URL shorteners or image sharers to occupy pride of place on the interface.
As if the countless text/photo based web communities aren't enough, the first incarnation of Seesmic was a sort of cross between Twitter and YouTube, on which people post short video clips of themselves spouting the sort of stuff they might otherwise write on Twitter.
To date this video micro-blogging service hasn't really taken off, why asked Le Meur why. "We're too early with Seesmic, mainly for human reasons like shyness in front of the camera. But we'll be ready for when it does go mass market."
This prompted us to reiterate a question we've asked before on HEXUS.channel: what's the point of Twitter?. Or, for that matter, Seesmic? Where has the need to suddenly tell the entire world what you're having for breakfast suddenly come from?