12seconds.tv is a new site, now in private “alpha” testing, that is sort of like YouTube for cell phone videos. 
The site “allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are.”
The site doesn’t currently have a lot of features yet, but you can post short videos and then [...]

twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter & Friendfeed, has been updated. It looks like it’s moving in the direction of becoming a general social networking client.
According to it the official announcement:
We took our time to make Friendfeed a lot more usable and add a few very nice features, including rooms support for Friendfeed, auto-throttling for [...]

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today introduced a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad.
Built specifically for iPhone’s Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone is designed to let you post blog entries or status updates, from wherever you are, to more than a dozen different online services.
Blog It for iPhone is [...]

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more.
And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill.
The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter actually stayed [...]

Social messaging/microblogging site Twitter today addressed some of the most frequently asked questions about the site’s infrastructure, frequent downtime and what the company is doing about it.
One of the most interesting comments they have is that Twitter power users are responsible for the site’s downtime:
The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when [...]

The Phoenix Mars Lander has a Twitter feed, and as Evil Mad Scientist notes, the Mars Lander is Twittering in the first person:
I’m sitting on very flat surface here. Tiny rocks around my foot pads. The horizon is flat and looks perfect for digging!!!
It’s unclear if this is an official feed or not; I [...]

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and Wordpress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites.
Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, without [...]

Google has released a new free Mac OS X app, Vidnik, that’s designed to make it easy for users to record video, add a Title, Tags & Description and upload it to YouTube:
You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a video comment to attach to an existing YouTube [...]

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, who’s got to be the A-1 top of the food chain numero uno most charismatic French new media entrepreneur ever, announced today that his company had acquired Twhirl, a Twitter client.
Not just any Twitter client, though - le plus grand Twitter client.
Seesmic is a video blogging and conversation platform that [...]