That being said I use other video hosting services for other videos which I produce for work or to share with family. I don't use YouTube, largely because I feel that there are other options out there that feel better to me. I know it sounds a bit odd but YouTube just feels too busy and too impersonal with the volume of content up there so I use Vimeo for personal videos and a local video service called Zoopy.com for my business videos.

I think where my use case differs from yours is that I'm initially approaching Seesmic as a selfish end user: What is this “Seesmic” thing and what can it do for me”? You've clearly gone a step above and started exploring the ways that you can contribute to the the burgeoning Seesmic community. Assuming I find reasons to keep using the service I'll probably get there myself.

Loic's quick response to my lukewarm review of his product is certainly admirable and I agree that it's not the sort of behavior I'd expect to see from Google. In fact Loic's personalized approach to customer service reminds me strongly of the style of Jason Goldberg, the CEO of SocialMedian. Jason spent much of last year personally promoting his service and keeping up with individual users. How did that work out for Jason? He recently sold his company to Xing for a few million dollars. Clearly Loic's in good company and I hope he can keep it up.

Don't get me wrong, I love youtube and the sheer number of videos some of which are funny as all hell. Have you seen Charlotte takes a tumble? That shit still makes me laugh deep belly laughs.

It's just that for some of us, the criteria that drive us to continue using seesmic are the _responsiveness_ of the team there as shown by Loic's response to your blog post. Loic and his team are everywhere and always listening to feedback to improve their product. Can we say the same about youtube or any google product for that matter?

In fact, I was so impressed by the speed and quality of seesmics response to a kerfuffle that happened a few months back, that I blogged about it here:

http://sean808080.com/blog/seesmic-raising-the-...

For my purposes and many others, this responsiveness and also having the ability to create private video conversations for our teams is really a driver and the noises I hear is that seesmic will enable this shortly. If/when that happens, I think you'll see a whole lot more meaningful talk between teams and families taking place on seesmic.

Thanks for sharing your take. Different strokes for different folks!

Thanks for taking the time to explain your plans here! It certainly won't take much to convince me to give you and other smaller players in the video market a fair shake. As much as I appreciate what YouTube's done for us I think we can all agree that a competitive market benefits the community.