Seesmic and TweetDeck: Two ways to immerse yourself in your social nets
Do you still use Facebook and Twitter by opening facebook.com and twitter.com in a browser? Or, have you tried using a desktop client to organize all the incoming status updates, tweets, comments, and other notifications into one little window on the side of your computer’s screen? Do you hope to find a way to shove all that data out of the way of your work?
My advice: Give up. What you need to do is go… Continue Reading
TweetDeck adds MySpace support, directory of Twitter users
I just got off the phone with TweetDeck founder and former one-man team Iain Dodsworth. In 2007, Dodsworth got sick of single-column Twitter clients and wrote his own application that took the complete opposite approach. “I didn’t want this tiny little Twitter experience,” he told me. “I wanted this big, obtrusive screen. I want obstrusive apps that suck me in, that require 100% of my attention, that don’t let me get anything done. Because that’s… Continue Reading
Popular Twitter app TweetDeck raises $2M more
TweetDeck , a desktop application for organizing messages from microblogging service Twitter, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding. The investment was revealed in a comment made by angel investor John Borthwick at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp in Redwood City, Calif.
By dividing Twitter’s stream of messages into different groups and columns, the UK-based company wants to help sort through the barrage of tweets that many Twitter users have to deal with. Built… Continue Reading
Social network console TweetDeck now syncs with your iPhone
TweetDeck is one of the most popular desktop applications that serves as a social network console. Its multi-column layout, based on a drawing that developer Iain Dodsworth discovered tacked to the wall at a Starbucks, has proven popular with social networkers who want a full-screen console for their Twitter and Facebook chats. Dodsworth’s design is both attractive and efficient. It places the user’s tweets, direct messages, replies, and public timeline side by side in parallel… Continue Reading
Stop the tweet spam! Two ways to filter Twitter into Facebook
Maybe Facebook is redesigning itself to be more like fast-growing microblogging service Twitter. But as we’ve said, and as many Twitter users discover when they start feeding their tweets into Facebook as status updates, the two services are still pretty different. Specifically, the sheer number of tweets that the average Twitter user seems to send out overwhelms — if not annoys — their friends on Facebook. The solution is better filtering of those tweets, and… Continue Reading
Desktop status updates: Facebook’s latest move against Twitter
Facebook has been redesigning its entire product around getting people to tell their friends what they’re up to — just as microblogging service Twitter does. Facebook’s latest step in that direction came today with the addition of status updates that appear on third-party desktop applications.
A couple of popular Twitter desktop app makers, TweetDeck and Seesmic, are already showing off the new feature. TweetDeck now lets you read a live stream of your friends’ status updates… Continue Reading
Twitter app TweetDeck raising angel round
TweetDeck, an application for organizing messages (”tweets’) received via microblogging service Twitter, is raising an angel round of funding. The round will total less than $500,000 and is led by Betaworks, according to All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka. Not bad for a one-man operation.
The application was built by Iain Dodsworth using Adobe’s AIR platform, which is used for creating hybrid web-desktop applications. TweetDeck’s big goal is to help users sort through the many tweets posted… Continue Reading