AlertThingy Goes Head to Head with TweetDeck - ReadWriteWeb. AlertThingy is an Adobe Air desktop application that was originally released specifically for the aggregator and social commenting service FriendFeed. To everyone's surprise, in releasing the second major update to the application, British-based development company Howard Baines has revamped the tool entirely to feature integration with nearly every major social platforms -- except FriendFeed.
Something Different This latest update, due out later today available now, sees the launch of "groups," putting the service in direct competition with the most popular desktop client for Twitter: TweetDeck. Where AlertThingy surpasses its competition, though, is in its integration of multiple social networks, the most significant of which are Facebook, Flickr, and Digg. Although TweetDeck's recent update integrates a column with a stream of your Facebook friends' updates, with AlertThingy you can create multiple groups of friends from multiple networks. Limitations Conclusion. Gorgeous TweetDeck Color Schemes | cheth Studios. When it comes to Twitter you cannot deny from the fact that Tweetdeck is one of the most smartest Adobe Air powered Twitter apps out here. Don’t Complain if you are seeing a lot of twitter related posts on chethstudios these days.
Well fact is a fact we don’t get bored of tweeting. If In case you are a twitter user you are in my #newbie list if you dont like TweetDeck or Seesmic. Well if you say lets battle TweetDeck vs Seesmic. I would choose TweetDeck why? A week back I had buzzed on Twitter asking my followers to share their TweetDeck color schemes. Click on TweetDeck Settings on the Right side top of your app and then in TweetDeck Settings Choose > Colors/Font > Enter the color codes as shown in this blog post and you are done with a brand new look to your TweetDeck. TweetDeck Color Schemes – Take #1 Primary Background Color 000000 Secondary Background Color 993333 Input Area Background Color 2D2D2D Primary Text Color FFFFFF Secondary Text Color CCCCCC. Advanced « TweetDeck. TweetDeck v0.24.1 Pre-Release: Facebook Integration - TweetDeck&
FriendDeck: A FriendFeed Search Tool - ReadWriteWeb. Another Twitter App Funded: TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Nex. Yes, you can still get someone to invest in a Web start-up with zero revenue. It helps if you can insert the word “Twitter” into your pitch, though. TweetDeck, a one-man company that makes a very helpful piece of free software that organizes your Twitter streams, is raising an angel round led by Betaworks, the investment company with a hankering for all things Twitter.
The round, which hasn’t closed yet, will eventually end up somewhere south of $500,000, I’m told. When it does, the financing will make 34-year-old programmer Iain Dodsworth a paper millionaire. Dodsworth says TweetDeck has been downloaded 250,000 times since then and that users are sending out 120,000 messages a day using the software. All of them are part of the burgeoning ecosystem that revolves around Twitter, which powers all of their companies by letting them plug into its data stream.
No problem, says Dodsworth, who says he’d be happy to pay Twitter, particularly if it gave him even more access in exchange. Tweetdeck to become the no. 1 Twitter desktop app? Written by Polle de Maagt You might know Tweetdeck, one of the preferred Twitter desktop apps for hardcore Twitterazi, besides gems like Twhirl and Twitterific. I love Tweetdeck’s customizable multi-column no-nonsense interface and quick Twitter servicedesk (@tweetdeck) in case of problems.
At the recent Adobe MAX conference I was surprised to see (on Twitter of course) that Mr. Tweetdeck himself, Iain Dodsworth, was also attending the conference. Beyond the one column For all of you that missed it: TweetDeck is a twitter dashboard, an Adobe AIR (“It’s just the quickest way to go cross-platform”) desktop application that is currently in public beta and uses multiple columns, group functionality and embeds services like Twitscoop and Twitpic in a clean interface. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. New features coming up And there will be more, as Iain lays out. Business model.