U2 is streaming their tonight’s concert right now from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California live to YouTube. Although Techcrunch says only 16 countries are able to view the show live (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K., U.S.), you can add Belgium to that list. The show is live now at www.youtube.com/U2 .

For those using Twitter, YouTube added a Twitter widget below the video player displaying tweets from people using the #U2webcast hashtag. In addition to streaming the concert, YouTube will also put up the entire recording on its U2 page tomorrow.

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The Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday that Twitter is considering the addition of live video tweeting saying: ”The upgrade, which is being discussed by Twitter’s founders, will enable Twitter users to upload brief video snippets to their profiles directly from mobile phones, laptops and other devices.” Not true so it seems. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone answered in a mail to Mashable saying that they won’t be doing video hosting: “140 characters of text including spaces. You know the drill!” Not all that unlogical since Twitter has no intention in duplicating the functionality of existing apps because this could undermine the trust of developers who invest time, money and energy in creating applications for the Twitter ecosystem.

So if Twitter is not developing it, what applications should you use? There are two services that jump out. Seesmic and 12seconds.tv. Seesmic is often considered to be ‘the’ video Twitter, but 12seconds.tv is probably the best option probably because it has the same idea behind it: on Twitter, you have 140 characters to make it clear what you want to say, on 12seconds.tv, you have exactly 12 seconds. That’s a lot shorter (and to the point) than Seesmic which gives you a full 10 minutes to rant. The startup was founded by David Beach and Sol Lipman in January 2008.

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A server failure, the fault of Microsoft/Danger, has resulted in total data loss for T-Mobile Sidekick users. One of those hit by the failure is celebrity blogger Perez Hilton who reportedly would have lost 2,000 address book contacts. Hilton is not finding the situation amusing and has been one of the Sidekick’s harshest critics in recent days, coining the hashtag #TmobileSucks.

Not bad according to singer John Mayer who tweeted the following message:

Perez Hilton loses 2000 contacts in his Sidekick. 2000 people to meet in Griffith Park for biggest group hug ever.

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Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor did it first, and now also American pop-rock singer and television and film actress Miley Cyrus decided to pack up her bags and leave Twitter last week. For the occasion, she (or some clever pr guy/girl) created this little rap video dedicated to explaining why she left the site. Hoax? We think so…

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