Thank You Seesmic, For Sucking Less

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Even though I’m an investor, one thing that has always bugged me about Seesmic is the all black background (its depressing), and the excessive use of Flash on the site (there’s nothing except Flash, try loading it on an iPhone). Having a few Flash elements on a site when necessary is fine. But using it just to use it is so…ugh.

You can check out the new all white site which ditches the Flash here. They’ve also added some additional bells and whistles to improve usability, like a big red button on the top left to start a new conversation.

User reactions are here. Let us know in the comments what you think as well (you can leave a video comment via Seesmic if you choose too).

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