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Real-time search engine OneRiot and Nambu, a social messaging desktop application for Apple operating systems, today announced a partnership that enables Nambu users to see real-time web search results while searching from within the app.

OneRiot's Tobias Peggs said the new capability is "a key feature. They are the first of these type of desktop applications to offer real time web search results in addition to the usual Twitter conversation search. This means Nambu users don't just keep track of conversations, but they also get to find related fresh content (news, blogs, videos, etc) as it emerges on the real-time web."

Freely moving from one service to the next is clearly part of the nature of the Internet today. On Twitter, Twhirl was the de-facto standard desktop client just a few short months ago, but now, TweetDeck has taken this position. The last version of TweetDeck, however, had some serious memory leaks, which led a lot of users to look for alternatives. Now, in its latest version, TweetDeck has rectified this problem. In addition, TweetDeck has also  brought support for Facebook messaging to the stable version of its application, as well as a number of smaller updates.

This new version comes just in time, as Seesmic, the company behind Twhirl, unveiled its TweetDeck inspired Seesmic Desktop yesterday.

If you are looking for a desktop client for Twitter these days, you will most likely be overwhelmed by the amount of choices, but according to TwitStat, the most popular desktop clients right now are TweetDeck and Twhirl, and TweetDeck is the clear choice of Twitter's most active users. This weekend, however, we came across Nambu, a new Mac OSX Twitter client that packs the best features of both TweetDeck and Twhirl into a native application, and which adds a number of very interesting additional features, including threaded conversations, three different views to choose from, and the ability to filter columns by keyword.