This morning was a brilliant morning on Seesmic. @Sizemore, @giagia, and @danlight were able to set it up so that the cast of the latest Indiana Jones flick would be interviewed on Seesmic.

• Steven Spielberg
• George Lucas
• Harrison Ford
• Cate Blanchett
• Karen Allen
• Shia LaBeouf

There was a hiccup in the network during the recording of Mr. Lucas’s videos, but they will be added to the timeline later as they were recorded with a second HD camera, as well.

Update: Loic Lemeur (founder of Seesmic (and my boss)) has very informative blog post on it all.

So… I was made redundant from my company this past Friday. It happened during my yearly review. I actually got a weird feeling about it on Thursday when I was looking over my calendar for the next day. My review was setup for Friday at 4pm.. It just seemed like an odd time to me. End of day.. end of week.. Plus working in the mortgage industry, things have obviously been a bit slow lately.

I told one of the ladies that I work with, if there  are two people on the phone, I am getting laid off. Sure enough, my boss rang, said hello, then introduced someone from HR.

I jumped in, “Oh, I guess you are letting me go”

“So you were expecting this?”

“Two people on the phone, one of them being from HR”

So.. long story short.. I was let go. I have a ton of stuff to ship back to the office, but whaddayado, eh?

I posted a video on Seesmic, Friday saying I was available for hire. It led to talks this morning with Loic and Johann, and I am now officially a Seesmic employee. FTW!!

Suwheet!

Since Seesmic is in the process of changing their API to a slightly different format, there really is no sense to continue coding against the old API.

While the changes that are needed to adapt to the new API are not all that drastic, I still have a lot of things to sort out with it. And as it is still in a development cycle itself, things might not go as quickly as I (or anyone would like).

For new video notifications I am connecting to the Seesmic Jabber Server. While this has been achieved, I still need to code in the actual user account creation through @SeesmicAIR. I will probably concentrate on getting those bits sorted next. Hopefully, by then, I will be able to catch up quickly to the Seesmic Dev Team.

What does all this mean to you? Probably nothing, but I will release what I have up to now. Are there bugs in it? I am sure there are, but it still does the job. The build to be released does include conversations/threads.

Anyway, I will post it later tonight. When the API switches over (to the new REST) this version will no longer work, but I /should/ have things all sorted by then.

Seriously… I feel like I am trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses‘

In case you haven’t heard, Seesmic rolled out some new features this evening.

I am doing my best to keep up…

The coloring of the app itself isn’t completed yet.. so don’t freak…

http://www.racavatar.com/

(mine will probably last longer)