AlertThingy Arrives

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.