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Updated Seesmic offers Facebook integration

02 May

Seesmic updated its Adobe AIR based Twitter client, “Desktop Preview”, today to include, among a few other features and bug fixes, Facebook integration.

I recently tried out Seesmic Desktop Preview and was impressed with what appears to be a TweetDeck clone, but quickly found that it lacked Facebook completely. Now, with that addition, and the fact that it already supported multiple Twitter accounts, I’ve replaced Tweetie once again.

It still isn’t perfect — no Twitter client is — but it offers quite a few features in a well-controlled interface. It also seems to eat less memory than TweetDeck.

Things I would change about Seesmic Desktop Preview include making the columns adjustable — even allow the ability to stack lesser-used columns. Also, I just don’t “get” the user list feature. I was hoping for more of a group feature similar to TweetDeck. I also miss TweetDeck’s “tag cloud”.

Big points, though, for NOT starting the name with “Tw…”! =)

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Beak – the latest Twitter client for the Mac

30 Apr

I’ve just downloaded the public beta of Beak. So far, I like a few things about it, but it doesn’t address all of the issues I raised in my previous post.

I like how most of the other clients minimize to the menu bar instead of the Dock; Beak does not. Also, while Beak supports multiple accounts, it doesn’t appear to do so simultaneously. You have to log out of one account to log into the other.

But, Beak’s beta is all of a few hours old. Things can and will be changed, so let’s hope that some of these early issues are addressed. In the meantime, check out the public beta at http://beakapp.com.

Also, don’t forget to follow me at twitter.com/bigdaddyk!

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Twitter Client QuickTake: TweetDeck and Tweetie

29 Apr

I’ve been searching for the perfect Twitter desktop client for a while. After looking at TweetDeck and Tweetie, I’m still looking.

Each of these apps comes close. TweetDeck combines Twitter and Facebook status updates in one desktop-space-stealing application while Tweetie focuses only on Twitter. But I would love to have them combined.

Can we get the power of TweetDeck smooshed into a Tweetie-sized footprint? TweetDeck has a cool feature that let’s you group people you follow and display them separately — I use it to see “local” posts. But that adds yet another column to the interface. Why do I need a complete column for Replies, Tag Cloud, and Direct Messages?

Tweetie supports multiple accounts and has a much cleaner interface. The memory usage is also much better than TweetDeck. Because it’s a Cocoa app (TweetDeck is built on Adobe’s AIR platform), Tweetie feels snappier and uses some CoreAnimation effects to pretty things up.

With the flurry of Twitter clients — I personally have used twitter.com, Nambu, Twitterific, TweetDeck, Tweetie, Seesmic Desktop, even an Adium plug-in — I have to believe we’re getting close to The Perfect One.

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