Facebook's got a mysterious event this week, and rumour has it that we'll see an Instagram for video. Apparently Zuckerberg and co fancy a stab at Vine or something, at least, that's what an unnamed source seems to think. If true, looks like Twitter and Facebook have yet another thing to fight over. What will it be called? Instavid? FaceTime? Oh, wait. [TechCrunch] Read More >>

You're only supposed to be able to upload a six-second clip to Vine—but somehow yesterday sixteen-year-old Will Smidlein managed to bypass that rule and post the whole of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Uh, well done? Read More >>

Vine, the very popular way to splice together six-second video vignettes, is now available for Android. Here's the Google Play link, which doesn't appear to be live just yet. Read More >>

I don't even... This is just... I can't believe... okay. Breathe. Some guy used Vine and Twitter to propose to his girlfriend. As in he recorded a six second Vine video (selfie?) asking her to marry him, with a ring and everything. She didn't say no. Read More >>

Because Twitter wants to force lightning to strike twice with self-imposed limitations on communication, Vine has been awkwardly limited to 6 seconds of video. But what does that 6 seconds mean? Could Vine promote Vine in 6 seconds? Could you even explain what Vine is in 6 seconds? Is 6 seconds longer or shorter than you think? Read More >>

Vines aren't exactly the newest from of high art. But while poorly edited Vines of your friends' cats doing nothing are probably what you see most often, there are some pretty good ones, with a bit more meat to 'em. These Tribeca Vine Competition winners are a pretty good sample. They're so good you might even go "huh!" Read More >>

Barely even four months old, Twitter's Vine video service has already delighted the film world to the point that the Tribeca Film Festival is giving ephemeral attention spans their very own Vine competition. And the people were ready. After sorting through over 400 Vines or approximately 40 minutes' worth (for those of you keeping score at home), the judges came out with 40 of the very best abridged tales they could find in four categories: Auteur, Animage, Genre, and Series (with each submission being a Vine trilogy). Read More >>

Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer. You've never seen Aliens like this. Read More >>

There's a... you see a... some people... he... it's no good. Vine trailers are rubbish, especially when the six second time limit results in the new trailer for The Wolverine being little more than 15 virtually still images mashed together. At least you can tell Hugh Jackman's in it again. And he's still got those knife things taped to his hands. We think. [Vine via Techradar] Read More >>

I don't care about Vine. Everything I've seen so far is soporific or sophomoric, boring beyond redemption or a big steamy pile of jerky blurriness. And then—then this happened: these LEGO VINES by Mark Weaver. They are simple, well thought out and visually enjoyable. Read More >>

If you haven't heard of Vine — Twitter's video-sharing app — before today, it might've come across your screen yesterday morning after a brief scandal: a dildo porn clip was featured as an "editor's pick." Porn on Vine — crazy, right? No. Shut up. There's porn on almost everything, and there always will be. Read More >>

Straight outta the blocks late last week there was Vinepeek, a website which throws up just-posted Vine videos. Now there's Vine Roulette, which offers up an entire wall of six-second videos for you to... uh... enjoy? Read More >>

Vine, Twitter's new experiment in oddball video sharing, gave users a spook this morning: a video of a guy sticking a dildo in himself. Even more startling, it was the #1 "Editor's Pick" for the entire app. What? How? Why? Read More >>

Some people are out there using Vine for pretty dumb things. Thankfully, others are capturing interesting six-second snippets from their actually-interesting lives. And you can creep on all of them, one after the other, in a constant fire-hose of anonymous, random video with Vinepeek. Read More >>

For all the reasons that Facebook is a massive success, it has one card that trumps the likes of Twitter, Google and LinkedIn: it knows who your real-life friends are. Kindly, Facebook shares that data with third parties apps using its Social Graph API—but it seems that privilege might not be a given for much longer. Read More >>