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- Twhirl 0.9.4 (Windows)
- Twhirl is a desktop Twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. It connects to multiple Twitter and Friendfeed, Seesmic Video, and laconi.ca accounts, pops up notifications on new tweets, shortens long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd), cross-posts updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook,...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Twhirl.org, Twhirl, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic
- AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by SeesmicGreat news for TwhirlDefinitely the first time I heard of an AIR desktop app being acquired. Being using snitter and twhirl; both very impressive!Any idea how much they were acquired for?
- Tags: Twhirl, Seesmic, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS?
- Yesterday's announcement that Seesmic has acquired Twhirl is no surprise. Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic was muttering something about it when we met last month but asked me to keep quiet. What is far more interesting to me is the long term impact on desktop client applications like Twhirl to...
- Tags: Twitter, Twhirl, Video App, Goodness, RSS, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic
- I think this is the first case of an AIR application being acquired so it's a pretty cool day for RIAs on the desktop. Twhirl has been gaining a ton of momentum because it's so well designed and I think it shows off why RIAs on the desktop are going...
- Tags: Desktop, Web, API, Rich Internet Application, Twitter, Twhirl, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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- Seesmic Desktop delivers seamless Facebook integration
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=569'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Seesmic Desktop version 0.2 launched and finally integrates Facebook status right along side Twitter updates, and the interface is consistent Techmeme....
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Integration, Seesmic Desktop, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Facebook Connect launches desktop and iPhone integration
- I think Twitter is so useful because it has many ways of updating: text message, desktop apps, web interface. Starting today, you can update your Facebook status via Seesmic's desktop AIR app. Interestingly enough, Seesmic owns Twhirl, so why wouldn't they make it look just like the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Twitter, Integration, Facebook Connect, UrbanSpoon, Flixster, Geni, Gary Vaynerchuk, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- Mitigating the collision course of social networks
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Michael Gaines Do you remember Venn diagrams from high school math? Those are the overlapping circles which represent where two groups intersect. Social media circles have started to intersect as well, and keeping them apart...
- Tags: Nickname, Network, Picture, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- Time Machine and the Cloud rescue me
- I should have written parts 2 and 3 of my 'predictions' by now but a four hour delay on an inbound flight coupled with an Apple BSOD put paid to all that. The good news is that I recovered everything thanks to Time Machine and a reliance on a pot...
- Tags: BSOD, Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Stephen Fry, System Crashe, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- FriendFeed redesign - win; Twitter redesign - 'lipstick on a pig'?
- Social networking got an extreme makeover yesterday when two very popular sites -- Twitter and Friendfeed -- introduced fresh new designs. While Twitter's redesign was slightly sprung on its users FriendFeed only surprised its users by going live with a beta that power users had been testing for some time....
- Tags: Twitter, FriendFeed, CSS, AJAX, Team Management, Piracy, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Web 2.0, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup
- CBS Interactive hosted a meetup about the state of microblogging. Bear Hug Camp is about discussing the future of messaging. People use Twitter as a way to communicate and stay in touch with their audience. It's not always reliable though. ...
- Tags: Steve Gillmor, Twitter, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Open source microblogging
- If I had to explain Twitter to someone for the first time, I would say that it's an addicting social news feed of my friends' status or commentary. It's micro-blogging. Pushing out a tweet to 10 or 10,000 people is as easy as sending a text message. ...
- Tags: Twitter, Podcaster Leo Laporte, Microblogging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Quirky Plurk: another microblogging time sink
- The other evening I started to receive unsolicited aka spam requests to hook up with people on Plurk. Spam might be too strong a word since the requests were coming from people with whom I'm already connected through other services. I've had my...
- Tags: Web Browser, Twitter, Plurk, Web Browsers, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Two new desktop applications for FriendFeed
- TechCrunch has the scoop on the launch of AlertThingy, an Ajax-based desktop client built on Adobe AIR for tracking FriendFeed. I haven't bought totally into the FriendFeed thing yet, but the application is really clean and may make it easy for me to track what people are doing on the...
- Tags: Application, Adobe AIR, FriendFeed, AlertThingy, AJAX, Desktops, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- News to know: Seesmic and Twhirl; Vista patches en route; XP; Classmate 2
- Notable headlines: Ryan Stewart: AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic Dennis Howlett: Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS? Techmeme EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google Larry Dignan: Microsoft readies Vista, Windows Server 2008 critical patches ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., TechMeme, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Corporate Communications, Patches, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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