I want a Google Reader TweetDeck Mashup

Away from politics and back to the cloud. I use TweetDeck most of the time to watch Twitter when I am at a computer. TweetDeck is one of the main things that finally helped me to understand Twitter. The ability to organize the big conversation is what makes Twitter work for me, and I have not found anything that does it as well as TweetDeck. But as always, give me an inch and I want a mile.

The problem with TweetDeck is I have to download it. Now this would not be a huge deal, if I could sync multiple clients. But it does not do this. This is important for three reasons to me. Groups, Search and Layout.

Groups
I really like the group feature. While watching Obama's speech Tuesday night I had a "Politics" group where I added a bunch of the people I knew would be watching the State of the Union as well as all the Congressmen and pundits. I had a little acerOne netbook running TweetDeck that was just watching that group's feed during the speech.

I like this group and want to keep it, but will add and subtract users from it as I lose interest in their thoughts or new people come along. But this group is only on my netbook, which I don't really use all the time (mostly when watching TV). So I would have to set this same group up on the other two laptops in the house I may be on (depending on who else is on a computer). Then as I add and subtract people from the group, I have to go around and do it on all the others.

Search
Then there is my computer at work. Now I don't need the "Politics" group at work, but I would like to have the searches I set up at work to be on my laptops at home as well. At work I setup different searches to watch the conversation going on around our customers. I'd like for those searches to come up at home as well. I modify and delete searches and I want them to be the same when I get to another computer.

I also do a lot of different searches on users or hashtags. If is see a question or comment from someone, and I want to see the answer or response they get, I'll set up a search for all posts with that users @name in it. Now I can see what everyone responds to this person, especially the people I don't actually follow. Eventually after the response is over, I'll delete that search.

Or the other day Sarah Steelman joined Twitter (@sarah_steelman ). Steelman is rumored to be thinking about running against @RoyBlunt in the Republican primaries for Kit Bond's seat in the US Senate in 2010. This interests me and I want to follow what others are saying to Steelman on Twitter. But not enough to go to Search.Twitter.com everyday and do a search on her name. But if I just set up a search in TweetDeck on her name I can scroll over to that column every couple days and see if there has been any activity. If a flood of conversation starts happening on her, I'll notice it quickly from the TweetDeck notifications.

Layout
I move columns around all the time, depending on what I am doing/listening to. Let's go back to the Steelman example. When she joined Twitter, I moved her search into the main view (4 columns with my current column width). I wanted to see what response she got out of the gate when she joined. After a while, I wanted to keep the search, but not in my main view. So I moved her to the end. I want this layout change to follow me where ever I go.

Google Reader changed the way I read the web. And TweetDeck has changed the way I listen to Twitter. But I want TweetDeck to function like Google Reader. No matter where I go it's always the same. If I create new tags or move feeds to folders at work, it looks the same when I get home. If I add a new feed on one laptop, that feed is on the other laptop as well. I know you can use dropbox to sync TweetDeck but I don't want a solution that complicated. I'm talking about something that anyone can use.

I hope TweetDeck figures out a way to put it's product in the cloud. Or - I hope Google somehow adds a Twitter interface to Google Reader that breaks Twitter down and makes it as manageable as TweetDeck does. I like all my news in one place. Adding RSS feeds and Twitter into one interface would be great. The real time web is the next big space in search I would imagine. You would think the king of search would want to get in here, and no better place to start with than Twitter right now.

@Google has just shown up on Twitter all of the sudden.