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Does Seesmic's new browser client look familiar?


Seesmic's got a new browser-based client out, to go with their desktop client for Twitter and Facebook. Before you even consider the features of Seesmic Web, though, you might notice something quite familiar about the interface: there's a single-column mode that looks a heck of a lot like Gmail. Timeline, replies and direct messages are in a sidebar, like Gmail's folders, and the text of the tweets or Facebook posts themselves goes right where you'd expect to see a subject line.

Seesmic isn't the first Twitter web client to try this approach. Just a few months ago, Brad wrote about TwitteReader, a Google Reader-esque Twitter site that even incorporated Google Reader's familiar keyboard shortcuts. Seesmic has more bells and whistles than TwitteReader does, but both gain something by copying Google's approach: users are instantly familiar with the UI, and it probably doesn't feel entirely like learning to use a new app, or even a new service.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Social Software, Web

TwitteReader is like Google Reader for Twitter

TwitteReader
If you've ever wished you could scroll through your Twitter messages and star your favorites for reference as if you were using Google Reader, then TwitteReader might be for you. This web app is basically a Google Reader clone, except instead of managing general RSS feeds, it manages your Twitter account.

When you type in your username and password, you'll see a list of the latest tweets from the people you follow on Twitter. You can scroll through messages using the familiar j/k shortcuts and you can refresh the list by hitting "r." You can star items, and post replies to any message directly from the reader.

You could accomplish something quite similar by taking an RSS feed from Twitter and adding it to Google Reader. But then you wouldn't be able to reply to messages. TwitteReader is licensed under a GNU license, and the developer has provided tools that let you run it yourself from any web server.

[via WebWare]

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