Seesmic's Web App - Love it

I've been using Seesmic's new web app for twitter for the last few days and I have to say I love it. I was begging for this a few months ago and this is pretty close to what I wanted. I don't plan on using anything else to access twitter (on my computer) - unless a better web app comes out. Either way - I'm not going back to a desktop app.

If you are someone who just uses twitter.com to access twitter - it's a no brainer to switch to this. For those of you that use a desktop app like Tweetdeck or Seesmic desktop - you really need to give this a try, but you will find a few things missing. The one I really want is multiple accounts. The other two that I don't need so much, but I like, are groups and facebook integration. I assume that @loic and team will figure out a way to get them in soon enough. Until then, running the page in two different browsers (when I need two accounts) will cover my bases.

Here is a good post by Louis Gray on Seesmic Web. He quotes Loic as saying, "there has needed to be some evangelizing for this new introduction to be accepted". I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people to accept. Especially for something like Twitter where if you don't have a web connection - there is not a lot you can do anyway.

I'm always excited to uninstall another program from my computer. Personally I want all my apps in the cloud. And I don't need any syncing (except maybe with my iPhone I guess, where the AT&T pipe is still slow). Just keep it all in the cloud and give me a browser.

Friendfeed is doing "Real-Time" right

Friendfeed has put out it's version of real-time search, and it's better than what anyone else is doing. Much better than Twitter. The best part is you can embed this real time search anywhere on the web. This is what I wanted Twitter to do not long ago - so at the end of a blog post I could include the most recent conversation on the web about the topic.

Friendfeed does not have as many users as Twitter and the early adopter crowd leans more to the tech side than the whole of Twitter would. But for this blog it works.

And that's not to say no one talks about pop culture or politics or whatever at friendfeeed. They ramble on about that stuff over there as well. For this post, I wanted to grab something that was getting a lot of talk on the web - so you could see the feed in action (it auto updates). Michael Jackson is moving too fast to even monitor. So I went with SarahPalin. You can roll your mouse over a post to pause the feed from moving while you read.



If I ever get back to writing over here - I'll start using this.