Seesmic , Twitter and the iPhone have all been around for a couple of years, but for whatever reason it took a while for French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur ‘s latest venture to come out with a proper iPhone / iPod touch application. As of this morning, it’s here , and it’s … great. The app, which you can download from iTunes via this link , lets manage their Twitter and Facebook accounts and update other social networks through Ping.fm integration (Seesmic acquired the company behind that service earlier this year). I’ll let you read the blog post and watch the video embedded below for more details about the Seesmic for iPhone app, but I think people will be interested to see how it stacks up against Twitter for iPhone (which was also released this week and is the latest iteration of Atebits’ Tweetie app) and TweetDeck
Highflying stream reader TweetDeck just raised a $3 million Series B round led by its biggest investor, betaworks. That brings the total capital raised by the company to $5.3 million. Ron Conway and Danny Rimer also invested in this round, as did all existing seed investors, including the Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, and Howard Lindzon. TweetDeck is the most popular Twitter client by one estimate , with more than 15 million downloads so far.
Interest in Google Buzz has been dwindling ever since its initial release, but that could soon change. Today Google announced that a number of notable web and desktop applications — like TweetDeck , Seesmic , Plancast and Boxee — have integrated Google Buzz via the new Google Buzz API . What this means is that starting today you can use applications with Buzz support to automatically post information to your Buzz feed and/or view, comment and like Buzz updates.
Today, during Google I/O , for about a minute on the stage screen there was a sneak peek at an HTML5 browser version of TweetDeck, the popular stream reader. In the video below shot by TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth, some of the features of this internal research project are shown starting at about the 27-second mark. This version of TweetDeck has not been released yet, and won’t be for another few months, says Dodsworth, and only if “we can get a feature complete HTML5 TweetDeck—looking good so far.” The features highlighted in the video include pop-up notifications when new Tweets come in, which is a signature feature of TweetDeck’s AIR desktop client, and geo-Tweets shown on a map. There were hints that TweetDeck was working on an HTML5 version when the company released its mobile browser version last week.
Popular Twitter client TweetDeck announced today its plans to make TweetDeck into a browser-based mobile application that can run on a variety of devices. By focusing on building an application for the mobile browser — rather than native platforms — TweetDeck hopes it can get on more devices and increase efficiency in the process. TweetDeck already has apps for the iPhone and iPad , with plans for an Android app also in the works. However, for the hundreds of millions of smartphones out there that aren’t iPhone or Android models, the development process is more complicated, and thus a web app is a better alternative.
We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more. The new client includes support for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed and LinkedIn (which was added late last year). The most significant addition is the availability of realtime search on the client, with the ability to search Twitter, Friendfeed, OneRiot and FacteryLabs from within the application.
As more and more of our friends and favorite organizations start publishing updates online, being able to organize them well is becoming even more important. Niche-popular desktop social media stream-reader Tweetdeck issued a software update this morning and the most striking change is in its handling of user groups. It’s beautiful. The new Tweetdeck is faster, more flexible and easier to navigate. Groups, we have argued, are the secret weapon of the social web .
TweetDeck ’s iPhone app just got a much-needed update . Version 1.3 brings a slew of new features that finally bring TweetDeck back on par with its competitors on the iPhone. The app now supports Twitter lists and Twitter’s new geotagging API. The app now also offers optional support for Twitter’s new retweet style and the TweetDeck team has made a number of smaller tweaks and fixes that make the app faster and more stable. Sponsor Lists TweetDeck for iPhone keeps the app’s well-known column-style layout and still syncs any changes directly with the desktop app.
Sky News — a 24-hour UK news site owned by News Corp. — is changing up their entire newsroom to focus more on Twitter. The organization is installing Tweetdeck on staff computers to stimulate news gathering via social media, according to reports from a UK blog . The Tweetdeck rollout to staff is scheduled to be completed within the month. While journalists using Twitter is pretty commonplace, an organization-wide rollout is significant.
As you well know by now, Seesmic has reached out and picked up Ping.fm , which integrates with some fifty social networks. Seesmic of course is noted for being integrated with seemingly every platform that is popular. Take the two of them together and you have an application that works everywhere, and updates everything. You can’t call it a hat trick as it lacks an element of the triplicate, but it sure does seem to be a home run at least. Seesmic has been trying to make inroads on the dominant Tweetdeck for some time, but had lacked a feature capability that would give it sufficient edge to lure happy Tweetdeck users over the fence.
Having just launched an updated version of its desktop client with lists galore, Tweetdeck is going online and turning its site into categorised lists directory. You may remember Tweetdeck launching their “recommended users” list, this new site will replace that. Using tag clouds in its desktop app and profile info, Tweetdeck is creating its own lists directory based on number of followers but also allowing visitors to comment and vote lists up and down. Tweetdeck isn’t the first into the lists directory business. Listorious arrived on the scene immediately after launch of the twitter feature and has seen solid traction, but with Tweetdeck being Twitter’s most popular application with a great deal of information about its users, the people they follow and the lists they create, Tweetdeck has a significant advantage. In addition, Tweetdeck, thanks to its built in tagging system, will make it possible to search for users not just based on what someone has called the list they are in or the information in their profile, but also based on what most people have tagged them as.
The latest version of TweetDeck , the popular Twitter client, is List-crazy : you can add lists on the fly, edit them, create new lists based on existing lists, and it even suggests people you may want to add to a list. Now TweetDeck is launching a List directory and putting it front and center on its homepage. Previously, the homepage was not much more than a place to download the Tweetdeck client, but with the new Lists directory TweetDeck wants to make its Website more of a destination site in its own right where people go to discover new people and lists to follow on Twitter. The TweetDeck List directory is broken up into more than 140 categories, including technology, law, architecture, healthcare, media, startups, and video games. You can browse through the different categories, or get recommendations.
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though – there’s some good news and there’s some bad news. LinkedIn holds an incredibly useful body of data about its users – not just because of the relatively high net worth it brags about its users having but because employment information is a very useful way to put a person in context on the web. That data is now available for an ecosystem of other developers to incorporate; TweetDeck, Posterous, Ribbit and several other applications already have. Sponsor The Good News It’s easy to get started.
An Interview With TweetDeck Founder Iain Dodsworth A small startup company called InfoChimps released for sale yesterday three very large sets of data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages. Included in the offering are the senders and recipients of 1 billion @ messages, Retweets and Favorites. We wrote in-depth about the release late last night . This morning we interviewed Iain Dodsworth , creator of the most popular Twitter client, TweetDeck , about the value he might find in that data and the direction he’s aiming to take TweetDeck in the future. Sponsor Dodsworth: Straight off the bat – an archive of tweets could form the basis of a profiler and that’s very interesting. Sentiment analysis (which I am ALL over) requires that kind of base corpus. RWW: InfoChimps isn’t releasing full text yet, but they would do a custom slice if you wanted it. Dodsworth: It’s the historical element that a large number of services are missing and where they will fall flat – analysis based on the last few hundreds tweets is almost pointless. RWW: I’m curious what “a profiler” might mean to you and what this data could help make possible in those terms.
