Seesmic Desktop 2 Becomes the Ultimate Realtime Dashboard
Seesmic Desktop has always been in the running for top Twitter client, but their latest release goes well beyond a simple interface for Twitter. After about a year of development, they have released something that is powerful, extensible, and nice to look at. Seesmic Founder Loic Le Meur describes the new Seesmic Desktop as the [...]
Read MoreSeesmic Gets User Streams While Tweetdeck Goes Android
Twitter recently began testing their User Streams API. This is the full real-time Twitter fire hose pointed directly in your face. If you follow a decent number of people, the batch method that Twitter now offers becomes quite annoying. While you’re looking at one tweet, 300 new ones instantly bury it. Don’t bother, you aren’t going [...]
Read MoreSeesmic Web Adds Drag-n-Drop List Management
The latest updates for the popular Seesmic Web Twitter client are very interesting and add some much needed functionality. Updates include viewing threads and retweets, geolocation, drag-n-drop list management, tweetmeme integration, and an enhanced contact manager. Retweets and Threads Being able to keep up with a conversation on Twitter is always difficult. If it draws [...]
Read MoreSeesmic Look Is Pretty, But…
They went from an online video community to a Twitter client. Now, Seesmic has released Look, a Windows application that claims to immerse you in the real-time web. I’ve been playing with it for a day or so and I have to admit…I’m quite confused. Seesmic Look is supposed to be geared towards those people [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-9-10
Pearl Jam Exchanges a Tweet for a Song You might not see the power of OAuth or even know what OAuth is. On it’s face, it let’s you connect your Twitter account to 3rd party apps in one click, but it also makes it simple to make a somewhat intimate (technically) connection with your audience. [...]
Read MoreSeesmic and Sobees Finally Join The Browser-Based Twitter Game
I have been pretty much advocating web-based Twitter clients over their resource-hogging counter-parts for quite a while now, so I was pretty intrigued by the news that Sobees and Seesmic have both released browser-based clients. Most of the popular desktop clients for Twitter and other social media services use Adobe AIR, which takes resource usage to a whole different level.
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