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I’ve still got some invitation-codes for french video-startup Seesmic to share (thx, Hugh). Seesmic facilitates video-conversations among its users, similar to a Kyte.tv-channel or the video-reply of YouTube. while there’s currently no mobile client available, it’s quite easy to use Shozu to upload video directly from your cellphone - thx to an open FTP-interface on Seesmic’s side (details here).

If you’re a blogger and want to try out Seesmic, just drop me a backlink to this post and I’ll get you going (sorry, no comments this time).

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since Google brought the blessings of IMAP to Gmail, I’m regularly using the iPhone mail-client on-the-go (on Symbian-phones, the java-based Gmail-client still outperforms the iPhone easily, if only for search-features and conversion of attached documents).

so I was following some incoming contact-requests and was happily surprised that XING has customized their business-focused social network for the iPhone. seems like most features have been ported, although user-interface & look-and-feel are far from iPhone-posterboy Facebook. when I inspected the app’s URL, I was surprised to find that the iPhone-port wasn’t done by XING but by sevenval, a german (?) service provider specialized in bringing webapps to mobile.

to try out XING on your iPhone, just point Safari to xing.com, you’ll be redirected automatically.

Update: according to XING’s blog the iPhone port is active at least since Nov. 9th…

Googler Dolapo Falola has spent his 20% self-allocated time improving the mobile version of Google Reader, especially tinkering with the iPhone-ized app, which is easily the most comfortable way to read feeds on the go - thx! all important features (sharing & starring items, tags) are accessible through the top navigation and the app is sufficiently fast even on slow EDGE/GSM connections.

(just goto reader.google.com on your iPhone).

every time I’m trying to register their application for use on a new phone, Shozu forces me into solving ridiculous riddles like this one…please stop the captcha-madness!

still, Shozu is the most excellent tool for mobile photo-blogging, allowing to post pics & videos with a single push of a button to various destinations like flickr, blip.tv or YouTube. and after mastering their exercise in captcha, my Nokia N80 is ready to shoot again

The University of Washington’s Emerging Technology group published a few key-facts and guidelines for web-application developers targetting the upcoming iPhone, including User-Agent-string, javascript-limitations and user-interface conventions. No specific info yet on the Javascript(?)-hooks Safari will offer to make phone-calls or control the integrated Google Maps-client, but a good list of things to keep in mind…

update: since the original page has been taken down by Apple’s request (one really has to wonder why…), here’s the cached document.

music recommendation has seemingly been dominated by Last.fm recently (new widgets, video-content, mashups), while competitor & innovator Pandora was less lucky being forced to shut down services outside the US. at yesterdays press-event at the Museum of Modern Art (SF), Pandora  reported back with an impressive array of announcements, including…

•   …a much needed revamp of their website, aiming to bring Pandora’s social networking-features to the attention of 6.9mio registered users
• …integration with  the Sonos Digital Music System, bringing personalized radio into every corner of your house (read my in-depth review of the Sonos at PLAY.FM)
• …a mobile WiFi-player jointly developed with SanDisk & Zing
• …and most groundbreaking - from my point of view - a deal bringing Pandora to Sprint-cellphones across the United States…music recommendation finally goes mobile!

related articles: Pandora, Last.fm

TechCrunch has an interesting scoop on Guy Kawasaki’s upcoming rumor-voting service Truemors (currently password-protected, check the screenshot for more details). seems to be a digg-like system based on a Wordpress-fundament with a strong mobile component: rumors can be submitted on-the-go by voice-call (voice-2-text translation provided by spinvox) or utilizing camera-phones (supposedly powered by Shozu, everyone’s favorite mobile photo-/video-uploader). another partnership involves GoLive! Mobile, which suggests some Twitter-esque SMS-feature is going to be implemented. screams “citizen-paparazzi” all over if you ask me…maybe Kawasaki should team up with Perez Hilton…

update: Dave Winer seems to like it too. buzzing…

Jaiku = Twitter + a little bit of geo-information + iconography + mobile client (currently S60, Nokia only).

cool: after signing up, Jaiku checks several IM-services (GTalk/Gmail, Hotmail, Jabber) for other existing Jaiku-users you’re already connected to. Jaiku also allows easy integration of existing blog-feeds. on the downside, I wasn’t able to find a feature for directly messaging a single user. other than that, it’s really very similar to Twitter. according to this post by Robert Scoble, they’re even dealing with the same load-problems (I experienced quite some delay when posting via my mobile, which btw. involves an SMS-gateway in finland, where Jaiku was created).

update: 606Tech features an interview with Jaiku-founder Jyri Engeström.