Seesmic saves user from necking himself

Social video service Seesmic has intervened in a case where a user threatened to commit suicide, calling police to prevent the user necking himself. According to The Next Web, Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur was in ... continue

Seesmic Update: Nokia client, Twhirl update with Laconi.ca support

Two news stories on the Seesmic front this week that we're late in covering: Seesmic on Nokia phones, and a Twhirl update. Seesmic is now available on Nokia N95 phones, the first time Seesmic has offered a ... continue

One of the Best Video Sharing Sites out there…And you’ve still probably never heard of it.

A guest post from Zee, the Creative Director at London based digital agency, WeDoCreative I have been a member of a particular video sharing site for a while now & I have come to realize that generally this ... continue

12seconds releases an API, complete with launch partners

Microblogging meets video startup 12seconds has today released an official API, opening up the service to third party tools and sites. For those not familiar with the service, 12seconds does exactly as the name suggests, you get 12seconds ... continue

Twhirl now supports Identi.ca

The next update of the Twitter/ FriendFeed/ Seesmic AIR application Twhirl will include support for Identi.ca, according to a scoop by Rafe Needleman at WebWare. The even more interesting thing about the implementation: Twhirl supports push updates from ... continue

Seesmic enabled version of Twhirl updated

The Seesmic enabled "private" version of Twhirl has been ... continue

Hictu now offering video blog comments

Video microblogging service Hictu has upgraded its offering, at the same time entering the emerging blog video commenting space. Hictu, for those not aware of the service, was the very first video microblogging service, although it tends ... continue

FriendFeed now supports Seesmic video replies

Seesmic CEO Loic Lemeur has announced that FriendFeed users ... continue

Disqus Updates WordPress API Plugin, Now Supports Seesmic

2.0 commenting service Disqus has updated their API WordPress plugin, adding support for Seesmic commenting. The API version of the plugin, unlike the more commonly used Javascript version, renders text on a blog so that it can be ... continue

Quality testing video microblogging services over slow connections

One of my biggest gripes with Seesmic from very early on was its complete inability to capture video over slower connections. Until February I was stuck on a 2mb cable connection which only pumped through about 250-300k ... continue

Hands on with Viddyou

Viddyou is the third main player in the video microblogging space, alongside Seesmic and Phreadz. Given that I've covered the rest, I was told I should take a look at Viddyou, and the result is above. The key ... continue

Utterz: Twitter Meets Seesmic

Utterz, best known as an audio messaging platform has been thrust back on the microblogging radar today with news that the site now supports Twitter like direct messaging features. Kristen Nicole at Mashable headlines the changes as "New ... continue