Virtually Here

Today, July 24th 2008, 12seconds.tv (note, that’s .tv and not .com)  is opening their doors to the public Alpha testing phase of their new product…12seconds.

What is it and who cares?

To answer the first, and most likely easier, question it’s a - and I am totally borrowing this term from their own site as it’s a new for me - ‘a video status platform’. Damn, that sounds great and I will in the next day or so, casually, work that into a conversation (either that or ‘message status platform’ when talking about services like Twitter or Plurk). Anyway, this video status platform (yay, did it) allows you to post short (12 seconds) video clips where you show your friends, family, faceless on-line stalkers what you are up to. With so many mobile phones sporting web-cam caputuring and emailing capabilities recording and submitting such content will take little more than the forementioned twelve seconds.

After signing up at the site you’ll get your own email address where you send your clips to and within a few seconds the world can watch you in your PJ’s as you spill those beads (beans?) of wisdom that you previously were only able to convey over boring old emails or IM’s - as long as you keep it to twelve seconds of course.

You can find people in your area by the built in search function or just go to the main page and see an assortment of random and featured video-posts. Video uploads from the same user are grouped under a unique URL (http://12seconds.tv/channel/[name]/ and you can follow and be followed by others on the site.

So why twelve seconds? Why not.

Go play and find out if you by doing so can answer the second question I initially asked.

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