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Twitter Lists, Linkedin and Retweets on Tweetdeck

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I have been waiting for this update to Tweetdeck since the announcement by Twitter of the changes to ReTweets and the development of the Twitter Lists. I wasn’t sure how it would be handled by Tweetdeck as it basically already allowed Groups and it seems like they have done a great job in working out a solution to this possible clash by allowing you to convert your current Tweedeck groups  into a twitter list or keeping it private in Tweetdeck itself.

The thing is, and in a surprisingly quiet move, Tweetdeck have also went one step further and integrated LinkedIn status updates to the software, something that the other desktop apps currently neglect or are developing.  Quite a shrewd move!

The New Tweetdeck Features list

Twitter Lists

Follow, create and manage both public and private Twitter Lists from within TweetDeck. Export your old TweetDeck Groups to Twitter Lists and add new columns to monitor your favourite Lists using a slick new interface.

LinkedIn

Add a configurable LinkedIn column to view updates from your network, send status updates & view profiles easily

Retweet

Perform both new-style and traditional retweets with ease. All retweets are now visible in your TweetDeck columns

Geolocation

Instantly locate your Twitter friends by showing an online map for those tweets that have been geo-tagged

And of course the video detailing the new updates and explaining how to set up all your new features.

Well, all these changes may be dramatic and a little confusing at first but it has solidified Tweetdeck for me as the software of choice for managing my accounts and staying up to speed on the latest information and my social networks. Its installed now so I’m clicking buttons and adding accounts, maybe you should be checking it out as well, you can download the new version on Tweetdeck.com. Have fun and speak to you soon!

AlertThingy Review – Social Media desktop software and friendfeed all in one

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I came across AlertThingy while browsing the web looking for a way to centralise all my social media profiles into a single interface.  Of course my first port of call was FriendFeed but I much prefer desktop software where possible.  For Twitter Im currently using Tweetdeck, whihc is great for staying in touch with followers on twitter but really left me wanting for updates on all my other social media profiles.  Sure it has a FaceBook feed in but I still have to login to FaceBook directly to reply and comment on walls and such.

AlertThingy – Your Social Desktop

Launched on April 16th 2008 the standard install of AlertThingy supports quite a few social media networks including:

  • Amazon
  • Basecamp
  • Digg
  • FaceBook
  • Tumblr
  • Flikr
  • Hundle
  • Ping.fm
  • TinyURL
  • Tumblr
  • TwitPic
  • Twitter
  • Twitter Search
  • Yammer

AlertThingy promises to be adding more networks as development continues.  The interface is what we have come to expect and is similar to TweetDeck,  with multi or single columns and information segmented into the various feeds and groups you have imported while also being associated with the logo of that feed, for example the Twitter t against all tweets.

One very cool thing that this tool does it also allow you to also import news feeds and blog feeds to a separate column and comes with a range of different RSS feeds already prepared such as the BBC, WallStreet, TweetMeMe and Techcrunch but you can choose specific feeds to add yourself so its really quite flexible.

Pretty easy to use all in all but I will spend more time with it to see how it holds up against the likes of TweetDeck.

AlertThingy FriendFeed

Interestingly enough, if your a FriendFeed User and would like desktop software for Friendfeed but don’t want to add all your profiles individually, they also have a version of AlertThingy specifically catering to Friendfeed.

Installing it and adding in your Firendfeed account details starts pulling in information from your established FriendFeed Accounts (although I’m not sure at the moment if this includes things like Youtube, or only the list mentioned in the alternative version, I’m still checking it out at the moment).  As Comments come in you can “like” them or “comment” back directly via the interface directly from the desktop.

Its still in the early stages, even though its been about for over a year, and looks a bit ugly with an all black interface and white writing but I’m assuming its in the early stages of development and am hoping it will expand in the near future.

Give them a try by downloading them from:

AlertThingy

AlertThingy – FriendFeed

Let me know your thoughts on how it works, good or bad and if you think its a serious contender as a social media desktop application. For me the Jury is most definitely, still out.

**Update**
Just came across this video by bwana.tv about AlertThingy, might help to describe it better!

THE twitter app – TweetDeck

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The best twitter app to date.

Using twitter via the web is all well and good, but a little long winded and slow to update so the best thing to do is download and install one of the freely available twitter apps to manage your twitter presence and stay in communication with all your fellow twitter’ers.

THE twitter app TweetDeckI have tried quite a few of these,but by far and the best twitter app at this time  is definitely TweetDeck. It has the usual  customisation options available in an interface allowing you to change colour schemes etc. and also some extended and really very handy features.

Using a three column layout it serves to give you the main window on the left with the flow of conversion and twits from the people you follow and are following, the middle window allows you to see twits which are directed at you specifically but viewable to all your followers, (these are twits which have the @yourname on them) and the third column contains the DMs (direct messages) intended solely or privately for you.

Via TweetDeck you can mouse over any persons avatar and choose how you wish to respond to them with the simple icons and it even includes the ReTweet option (something I will explain in another post as its quite important.)

Further to this the layout can be expanded by clicking on someone’s username to get their details and bio, searches can be performed and TwitScoop can be turned on so you can monitor the latest and hottest topics going on in the twitterverse.

TwitScoop

To expand on TwitScoop, as its quite interesting, its basially a tag cloud which shows a series of regularly used words in conversations randomly spread about the cloud.  The more used and prominent the word the larger and bolder it appears working exactly like a blogs tag cloud.  At a glance you can see exactly what the “topic of the day” may be.

On top of this there is a group option which allows you to create specifc groups of people or related subjects os you can manage the flow of information much easier.

Other Additional Features include:

  • Catch up with overnight global twitterings as TweetDeck stores all updates whilst running
  • Continual status updates of TweetDeck and Twitter
  • Resize TweetDeck as either an unobtrusive column, full screen or anything in between
  • Especially useful running full screen on a separate monitor
  • Filter tweets using the tweet text, username, source or timeframe
  • Auto updates from the Twitter API

Download TweetDeck

You can grab TweetDeck from the website: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

And the first thing you should do is get on and follow me :P  chekc me out on http://www.twitter.com/justinparks or just perform a search in TweetDeck and hit the follow button from there.

Well? what are you waiting for? Go get TweetDeck - the best twitter app!