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Andy Plesser at Beet.TV got the scoop from video chat platform Seesmic that the company will be powering video comments for Moveable Type and TypePad blogs beginning next month, just like they have for WordPress.com since last month. Founder Loic Le Meur wrote this week that Seesmic will this month become the first Silverlight video service on mobile phones and next month the company will be integrating XMPP real-time messaging into Twhirl, the leading 3rd party Twitter client that they recently acquired.

Is Seesmic blowing up right now, or is it set to eventually implode? Read on and we will consider the issues...

Yesterday morning the web's largest web tech blog added video comments courtesy of of live video startup Seesmic. About 24 hours later, video comments had turned into a mini-trend with another 80 blogs installing them. While adding them at TechCrunch was a smart move by founder Michael Arrington -- who is also an investor in Seesmic -- because they've clearly already paid small dividends in spreading the product, I wonder if they're really adding to the conversation. Below are 5 reasons why I don't particularly care for video comments out of the gate.

Edit: We've added a poll. Please vote below.

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. This week we brought you 'The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients', we explained why Seesmic + Twhirl is a Vision of the Web's Future, we analysed the latest developments in MySpace music and Flickr, and we peeked into the future of the Chumby - the Wi-Fi video and widget displaying device. There's also a bit of April Fools fun, web geek style!

Loic Le Meur's video chat service Seesmic is announcing tonight that it has acquired leading 3rd party Twitter client Twhirl. Seesmic is still in closed Alpha status right now - though we have invites if you'd like them: email marshall@readwriteweb.com with the word Seesmic in the subject line and we'll send you one.

How could the acquisition of an app that runs entirely on the Twitter API, by another service that isn't even publicly available yet be a big deal? Let us count the ways...

Loic Le Meur's short video messaging system Seesmic made a number of announcements here at DEMO but when I got to sit down with him, that wasn't the subject of our conversation.

I wanted to talk about microblogging as a phenomenon, but the biggest take away I found from our conversation is the Seesmic's short video messaging is really different from Twitter. Both are important but so are the differences between them.