Comments on: When somebody announces to stream his suicide on Seesmic

By: Seesmic saves user from necking himself

Seesmic saves user from necking himself — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:52:50 +0000

[...] According to The Next Web, Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur was in Seesmics’ San Fran office watching a big LCD screen where the desperate person was depicted. “People emailed us that he looked very serious”, Le Meur said, “the guy was about to kill himself, what do you do?” [...]

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:09:42 +0000

I have been cynical about seesmic before but once a service starts playing a role in life and death situations that is a clear signal that something important is happening..

By: michael arrington

michael arrington — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:40:46 +0000

glad you didn’t hesitate any longer than you did. It seems like an obvious decision.

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:49:49 +0000

Well gooole already have the technology that finds words on video, so they can achieve a pattern for alert… That’s me thinking matrix :)

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:38:13 +0000

I guess so, if you hire some really good YouTube moderators and combine it with filters who can recognize speech in videos.

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Alright, I’ll update. Would have done the same btw when I could save a life.

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:01:46 +0000

I wonder if it was possible to prevent such similar case about Finland school shooting…

By: Loic

Loic — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:57:28 +0000

Hi, let me correct myself here we actually gave the email address not the IP and the city that was enough and honestly I really hesitated hard but we may have saved a life so I do not regret.