In our continuing effort to keep the New Media Photographer community well informed, here is a catch-up list of nine newsworthy items from recent weeks:

Posterous now has customizable pages.  Posterous is a blog site designed for e-mail users.  The system allows bloggers to post information or photographs to their site via e-mail.  It has become very popular with camera phone photographers who like to post their images immediately.

TinEye will begin indexing PhotoShelter images.  Partnering with sites that cater to photographers who would care the most about keeping track of their image usage is an excellent move for TinEye. As a PhotoShelter subscriber, I am pleased.

Twitter, a company that has not generated any real income during the three years of its existence, has or may be receiving $100 million in funding to keep it going.

Shutterstock announced last week that is has acquired BigStockPhoto, a credit-based stock photo agency headquartered in Davis, Calif. Also, Shutterfly bought Tiny Pictures; the consolidations continue.

Google will release the Wave application to 100,000 testers soon. Will you be one of the testers?

Clixtr.com is a new photo-sharing application for the iPhone.  It’s a location-based application that allows people at the same event to share photographs in one location.

Photo505.com is a new photo effects site that claims it will offer a different effect for your image every day.

Best Camera release: Chase Jarvis released his highly acclaimed photography application for the iPhone. Chase also has a book and new community related to phone photography.

Dropbox just released a new application for the iPhone.  It’s an easy and convenient cross-platform media storage site.