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Flash video is a universally compatible format for desktop browsers and a universally lame format for mobile phones.

YouTube fixes this by processing dual streams - Flash for the desktop and 3gp for mobile applications.

Solution: Publish a high resolution video (480x382) from the BlackBerry Storm directly to Twitter (via YouTube) using only the handset.

1. Create a YouTube account.
This provides you with an email address specific to you (xxxxxx@m.youtube.com) that you can send your video to YouTube for processing.

2. Upload the video from your phone via your email account. The BlackBerry email system that synchs all your email accounts allows for a maximum attachment of 3 mb with Verizon. A stand alone app for an email service might have larger download capability. I find that 45 seconds of 480x382 video is under 3 mb.

3. Go to your YouTube account in the BlackBerry browser after the download and copy the page address of your video to the clipboard in the phone.

4. Using Übertwitter, I paste the YouTube URL of my downloaded video into the Tweet. Übertwitter supports embedded link shrinking using bit.ly. It's a one operation click off the BlackBerry key after pasting in the long link.

5. Send video tweet

Now you have a shortened link to a mobile browser page that will open and play your mobile video from any mobile browser and most desktops.

On Mac destops the 3pg video file opens in QuickTime. On PC's you will be asked to open the file in whatever video player on your PC that plays 3gp files, like QuickTime or RealPlayer. You may already have this file type associated with a player on your computer. Windows Media Player traditionally doesn't play 3pg files out of the box.

As an added bonus, you can track statistics and promote your video. It is universally search-able, can be sent and embedded by viewers.

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Over the past week, family and co-workers have bombarded me with cheerful questions and ugly comments about Twitter. This forced me to think about and explain this seemingly stupid activity.

THINK YOU ARE ALL HEADED FOR THE LOONY BIN WHERE THE FOLKS IN CHARGE CONTROL THE OTHERS WITH ELECTRONIC GAMES. THAT TWITTER AND FACEBOOK STUFF AIN´T FOR US FISHING FOLK
- My uncle

Twitter is scaled texting. You can talk to one person or you can talk to thousands. It is dynamic conversation unlike email, instant messaging or texting.

Twitter is free from the confines of cell phone company text charges and text multi-media messaging for pictures and video. It travels as pure data.

You choose the portal (desktop or phone) and mode of transmission. You can sent tweets from text, the twitter website or an application on your phone.

twttr is abt compressing yr thoughts & efficiently communicating the moment.

Twitter identifies with a generation of short attention span thinkers who grew up texting. They don't read the newspaper and won't wait for our website to load. It's reading the newspaper without taking your Ritalin.

Twitter is more about a concept of communication than it is about locking you into software, phone carrier, or App store.

I use a Blackberry Storm smart phone and the application ÜberTwitter.

ÜberTwitter is a beta program downloaded from an independent vendor not tied to your phone carrier or your phone manufacturer.

Using ÜberTwitter, I can expand my tweet by embedding videos and still pictures that I create on my phone and tie them to my relative GPS location.

Using bit.ly, I can tell the world about web links and track who is looking at them.

With ÜberTwitter, I can search the world, or my GPS location, or my friends, for other people who are thinking what I am thinking at any given moment.

Twitter uses all this freedom from monopolies to harness free choice which sparks innovation.

Twitter is a raw communication tool to help the mind expand rather than a button to push or a pill to pop. Perhaps this is why it is a hard concept to grasp and a definite reason to try Twitter before it is harnessed for revenue streams, gobbled up and repackaged for the masses to consume (understand) without question.

Ubertwitter is a beta program that you won't find in Blackberry's App World, but it's my favorite Twitter app for the Blackberry Storm.

You can download it directly from their site by pointing your Blackberry web browser to their download link.

The program pushes an alert to the handset, while running in the background, and allows you to link a still picture or video from the camera or archive.

The coolest option is tagging the tweet and Facebook link with a general GPS location.

If you link Facebook to Twitter, the picture/video/GPS links mated to your pictures also appear in Facebook.

Some care in sizing photos will speed transfer times as Ubertwitter will transfer the full file size. I either set the Storm's camera down from 2048x1536 down to 640x480 or push the photo into a MMS text message and copy paste the photo back into the archive. The MMS message system will automatically downsize a photo suitable for texting.

Same with video: I usually shoot a MMS video at 176x144 rather than the 480x352. Huge files aren't any fun with twitter.

Ubertwitter reprocesses the video in Quicktime and embeds it off the status link looking like this http://mypict.me/50DS in a standard web page.

Ubertwitter has undergone two upgrades in the past week that work well with the most recent Blackberry Storm operating system upgrade.

The picture at left is a picture Tweet in Ubertwitter.