AlertThingy Arrives
April 13th, 2008 | Published in AIR, social media | 3 Comments
I just saw the new on Deep Jive Interests: AlertThingy has arrived! This Adobe AIR application lets you keep tabs on your FriendFeed, similar to how Twhirl lets you tweet and keep track of your tweets. The app also has a search box, so you find words, friends, etc. in your FF stream. When you first install AlertThingy, you have to get your remote key in order to authenticate against their server - a step I could have done without, but ultimately, not a big deal.
The app, version 1.0, is lacking in some of the FF features, like the ability to hide items, for example, and it doesn’t appear to have the skinning abilities that Twhirl does. You also can send your comments back as tweets - another bummer. However, having a FF desktop AIR app is really great, (so thanks Howard Baines!), and I’m sure more features will be added in time. In the meantime, though, I might just stick with the FF site itself.
Update: I see that my fellow Grand Effect blogger, Frederic, agrees with me on sticking with the web for now and Corvida thinks it wasn’t worth the wait.
On FriendFeed, this post was liked by 1 person and commented on 3 times hide- Corvida
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and I didn't like it :(
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Deepak you don't like it? I mean, it needs polishing but its ok (via Alert Thingy)
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The Twitter Air clients help my Twitter interactions. AlertThingy just didn't do it for me. I am sure it will improve as time goes on, so I am keeping it around. Part of the reason could be is that I really like the FF web interface
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