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AlertThingy Goes Head to Head with TweetDeck
AlertThingy is an Adobe Air desktop application that was originally released specifically for the aggregator and social commenting service FriendFeed. To everyone's surprise, in releasing the second major update to the application, British-based development company Howard Baines has revamped the tool entirely to feature integration with nearly every major social platforms -- except FriendFeed.
Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 April 2008
Here are the highlights from the week's stories on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side, we analyzed the increasing mainstreaming of social news site digg; and we reviewed some awesome new web apps (Grooveshark, SixApart's BlogIt, Twhirl, Alert Thingy, and others). On web trends, there was a meme this week that declared the Mobile Web dead - we begged to differ. We also looked into two 'real world' issues for Web tech this week - the impact of social media on "real people"; and real world data portability.
Battle of the AIR Apps: Twhirl vs. Alert Thingy
Today, the battle between the two most popular AIR apps as of late has begun. Yesterday, the FriendFeed AIR app, Alert Thingy, having only just launched on April 13th, was already getting an update - this one to include Twitter support via a built-in "Tweet" button. Not to be outdone, Twhirl wasted no time in providing an update of their own, seemingly crafting their updated version overnight. Now Twhirl includes FriendFeed support and Alert Thingy does Twitter, but are either of them really giving users what they want?
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