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Le Meur is clear that Seesmic Video's problem was not technology, but a human problem - that most people are still uncomfortable videoing themselves.

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Loic Le Meur Loic Le Meur Loic Le Meur is a serial entrepreneur and the personification of networking on and off line.

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"Those users might be very upset - but there's not very many of them," says an unrepentant Le Meur.

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They told Le Meur he had their backing, and followed his recommendation of exploring real-time web communication on the back of one million downloads of Twhirl, Twitter's second third-party client, that Seesmic acquired in April 2008.

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There are other social media aggregators offering similar functions, but in September 2010 Mr. Le Meur found another way to take Seesmic in a new direction.

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"Most businesses get it as far as monitoring what people are saying about their brands," says Mr. Le Meur.

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Mr. Le Meur also believes that social media will have an increasingly important place within the enterprise.

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Mr. Le Meur completed his studies at the HEC School of Management in 1996.

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A view echoed by Loic Le Meur , chief executive of social media app company Seesmic and founder of Europe's leading internet conference.

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Mr. Le Meur, however, is currently based in San Francisco where his apparently boundless energy is focused on the rapidly evolving social software application developer Seesmic.

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