As a video blogger I use whatever gear is handy to instantly share moments via video. I post mobile video using my 3 year old Samsung phone! That’s right, I don’t have an iPhone, gPhone or Blackberry (yet), my phone is just a basic device that takes pictures and records 15 second videos. It also has a nifty light on it. The phone is only part of the equation. Knowing the right online tools is equally important and here’s a little run down of what I use.

To post mobile video clips to Twitter I use 12second.tv and a few weeks ago I enabled the 12seconds.tv Facebook app to share my little videos as status updates with my Facebook friends. As an aside, I want to say the 12seconds community is one of my favorites. I have a lot of friends there from Seesmic, but even beyond my Seesmic family, it is fun being a part of the growing 12seconds community.

For the last couple of months I’ve also been using a site called Zannel. When I post pictures to Zannel my Flickr and Facebook pages are updated too. Zannel has an interesting embeddable player and I like their audio quality.

Of course, everyone’s gotta have a Twitpic account and I use mine (quite a bit) to post pictures to Twitter. Usually it’s pictures of food or flowers or something silly I see while I’m on the go. In the vein o f Twitpic, is Twitvid.io. It’s a video sharing service set up by the guys who created Fliggo. Twitvid.io is nice because it’s easy for me to use but also for viewers of my videos it is simple to comment, retweet, like and follow videos. The mobile posts I send to Twitvid.io are strictly twitter updates. In contrast the videos I send to 12seconds.tv and Zannel are for my twitter friends but also other communities.

Testing Out Some New Sites

I like testing ways to post on the go, especially video. I gathered a list from my very savvy twitter community the other night of new sites and services and I’m going to give each site a try. If you’re interested you should give em a try with me! Here’s a list of the tweets I got the other night. I’ll update as I test each site and if there’s something you’re using that you like, I hope you’ll tell me about it so I can add it to the list.

• qthrul You might want to check out Radar.net and @radarnet since it is by far the most inclusive sharing service I’ve used
• radarnet – as long as you can send a picture message (or MMS), Radar should work.
• sujamthe you’ve gotto try @qik, I am a video addict and used to use a flip camera, qik is on many phones chk it out.
• corvida Qik is for mobile streaming mainly. http://www.qik.com/video/12… You might also want to try pixelpipe (http://pixelpipe.com/) or shozu (http://www.shozu.com/) re: mobilevids/pic posting
• Shadez I use twitpic.com or posterous.com for images. Never uploaded a video on suckyGPRS connection. For native S60 app try Youtube app (http://is.gd/wvNP) or check outqik.com. There’s another service called - JuiceCaster. Hope this one works. But I guessqik.com should work for ya.
• monkeysplat Flickr & Qik
• tmofee blip flickr all creative commons and easy to use

Sites and Results

Radar.net – FAIL. Tried using the email address provided from my phone. It didn’t work. Radar send me several tweets to help me figure it out, but it didn’t work.
Yfrog – FAIL. I got a tweet from them that said it should work after I posted a tweet that it didn’t. I tried again and it still didn’t work and then I didn’t hear from Yfrog again.
Qik – FAIL. They said my phone is too old.
Pixelpipe
Shozu
Posterous
Mosh
Juicecaster
Flickr – FAIL. I sent them an email a while back and need to follow up with the reply.