Seesmic releases preview of Seesmic Desktop
Posted on 07 April 2009, at 8:54 pm, by Wayne Schulz
Seesmic has just released a preview of their Seesmic Desktop. The program runs on top of Adobe Air and supports multiple Twitter accounts (Facebook support expected shortly). Additional features include support for multiple Twitter accounts, multiple column views, saved searches, grouped friend lists and an easier (and slicker) navigation bar. Missing features include lack of any trending topic screen to show popular keywords, lack of support for Friendfeed and an inability to automatically shorten URLS pasted into the message bar. Near as we can tell this will eventually be the replacement for Seesmic’s other Twitter client Twhirl. Comparatively this looks a lot like Nambu which is another Twitter client that I tried and found less stable than Seesmic Desktop. For a preview copy visit the link below.
PS – It’s humorous that Seesmic’s reason for not updating Twhirl was that nobody could pronounce Twhirl. I think they’ve traded a product name nobody can pronounce for one nobody can spell (I’ve since corrected my mis-spellings of Seeismic…)
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Just downloaded it and started it up. First impression- it is the nicest AdobeAir-powered Twitter interface yet. The ability to have two columns, one for public and one for private Tweets is nice. The way it handles multiple accounts is even nicer!
April 8th, 2009 at 9:04 am
What I don't get about Seesmic, Tweetdeck, etc — where is the profit potential. Can these company's go on forever supplying free software to which it seems they have no revenue stream?
I'm not a programmer and I don't mean to belittle what these guys do — but the applications aren't THAT stunning that they seem like anything a third party would want to buy.
That being said – I'm liking Seesmic Desktop (now that I learned to spell it) mainly because I find the updates easier to read than in Tweetdeck and it's more convenient to use than Twhirl.