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Seesmic Desktop 0.6 adds Facebook Page integration, still bloated
by Jay Hathaway Sep 18th 2009 at 8:30AM
Facebook Pages are just one example of Seesmic's tendency to try to be all things to all people. Seesmic has the distinct disadvantage of running on Adobe Air, which, although it makes the app cross-platform and usable by everyone, is notorious for its poor performance.
Successful Twitter clients do one thing, and do it really well. Tweetdeck focuses on groups, Tweetie focuses on simplicity and streamlining, and Bluebird does customizable skins. Seesmic doesn't do any particular thing better than the other apps out there, and I don't know that managing Facebook Pages is the feature that's going to convince someone to switch.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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umbrellas1000 said 12:58PM on 9-18-2009
Seesmic is the only Twitter app you mention that has Facebook support. That's what it does better than all the other Twitter apps out there right now.
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Thermoptic said 11:56AM on 9-18-2009
Looks good, but that bload memory stuff dont sound so good. I would probably go with Skimmer http://www.fallon.com/skimmer
Or flock http://www.flock.com/ instead.
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Kyle Potts said 4:22PM on 9-18-2009
Bloated? Almost every twitter app is bloated. Al least Seesmic Desktop does a good job on being bloated (I know it sounds weird). Tweetdeck on the other hand does not do a good job on being bloated
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