twitblogs.com  Fall 2008

AllowsTwitter users  to write more than 140 characters, or to embed images into their posts, etc. You can user your Twitter login to get in.

Blipper is a microblogging site where you can discuss and review books, games, music, and movies in 160 characters, similar to Twitter’s 140 character posts.

Blippr will forward your Blipps to Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed

twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too. Plus, a lot of usability enhancements have been added. It is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of the features are:

• connects to multiple Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
• shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd)
• cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku
• post images to TwitPic
• search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan

The below information is take directly from www.12seconds.tv

What is 12seconds
12seconds is the best place online for video status updates. It’s a super easy way to share what you’re doing with your friends and family using short video clips. You can use your web cam or mobile phone. Show your friends where you are, share your thoughts, or tell them how you’re doing. We are building a video status platform that will help you keep up to date with your friends 12 seconds at a time. 

Why only 12 seconds?
Because anything longer is boring. The scientists here at the 12seconds dodecaplex have conducted countless hours of research to determine the precise amount of time it takes for boredom or apathy to set in during typical Internet video viewing. Our patent pending Electro-Tear-Duct Prongers have determined that exactly 12 seconds of video is the ideal amount of time to keep anything interesting. 

 Press releases:

Techcrunch

Inquisitr

VentureBeat

CNET

Mashable

ReadWriteWeb

Face Reviews

http://search.twitter.com

Twitter now has the ability to search the posts. So you can See what the world is doing — right now.

Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.

www.identi.ca – created July 2, 2008 by Evan Prodromou

A microblogging site (similar to Twitter)

Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service. You can use it to write short notices about yourself, where you are, and what you’re doing, and those notices will be sent to all your friends and fans.

How is Identi.ca different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?
Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.

The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.

The goal here is autonomy — you deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence. If you don’t like how Identi.ca works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).