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See that super cute racoon to the left? It's based on the new Seesmic mascot that was introduced a few weeks ago. I first caught a glimpse of the new Seesmic racoon on founder Loic's blog. Shortly after, I started seeing variations of this raccoon amongst Seesmic friends on Twitter.

It turns out it's the work of one very generous Seesmicer from France who is now living in Brussels. I'm talking about Vince Philbert aka FrF_Kmeron on Twitter and Kmeron on Seesmic who has volunteered his time over the past few weeks customizing racoon avatars aka "racavatars" for friends on Seesmic.

Vince was nice enough to create one for me today! I wanted a distinctly China one holding a pair of chopsticks in Shanghai. It symbolizes my favorite past time in Shanghai. Eating!

The beauty of social media apps like Twitter and Seesmic lies in the fact that it's really not about business or technology. It's about people first. Getting to know people is the starting point for a lot of great things in my life. It inspires new friendships, business relationships and new ideas.

In this case, it also inspired a super cute work of art from a new friend. Thanks Vince!

*this one cracked me up because it turns out Marc was tweeting at his OWN press conference for his company where a bunch of Chinese newspapers and magazines were asking him and his team questions. as he later mentioned, others answer the questions so he gets to sit there and twitter. :D