November 11, 2009 • 9:29 am
Bluto is an app that grew out of IBM, based on Adobe Air, that combines Twitter and Lotus Connections feeds into a single client. You can cross point to both or choose a single site to post to. The basics are there, like follow, unfollow, retweet and reply. More advanced features are not, and likely won’t be coming as this was just placed out on a whim with no promise of updates.
IBM runs their own internal Twitter like system called BlueTwit, but with the inclusion of microblogging capabilities in Lotus Connections, a client like this was needed. You can see more of a review from the IdoNotes blog.
Filed under: Linux, Mac, PC , adobe_air, BlueTwit, lotus_connections
November 10, 2009 • 8:52 am
Nearby Tweets let’s you choose an exact (or not so exact) location, keyword and radius to search for anyone else that seems to be lsiting themselves in that area. The homepage is bright and clean with avatars of users nearby on the left and a stream on the right. A dropdown allows you to modify the search itself.
Hovering over the avatars shows the recent tweet and there is pretty much an endless stream on the right. You can narrow the range down to a couple miles or go as far out as 500. I can see this is a great way to check out what is going on for the evening in your local area or meet new friends. Tweetups seem hard to get hundreds to show for, mainly since they don’t follow you. Sending some @ messages of those in the nearby area is a sure way to get visibility and make new friends.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , local, LocalTweeps
November 9, 2009 • 2:15 pm
Twitpress work in reverse of the others we highlighted today. Instead of bringing tweets into WordPress, it becomes the notification out. Much like Twitterfeed. It supports including a permalink into your tweet and only requires your Twitter username and password to make it all work.
Beware that is creates a table in your WordPress database called twitpress, overriding one that might have been named that before.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , Wordpress
Add to Any actually encompasses just about all the ways to socially share something, but Twitter is included. They take care of most everything for you, including the ability to change the colors of the plug-in to match your blog itself
Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.
Localized languages and Google Analytics integration are also part of it. Bookmarking, email and just plain old network sharing are a key part. While not as Web 2.0 slick as some newer ones, this is very comprehensive. Considering it is download a couple thousand times per day, you might want to take a look and see if the features are what you need for your WordPress based blog.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , bookmarking, email, sharing, social_bookmarking, Wordpress
MyTwitter is a simple integration that allows you to bring your tweets into your WordPress blog. It can be a function to bring them right into your postings, or a widget for the sidebar.
Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.
The styling allows changes to the CSS and some basic formatting. While there was no screenshots available on the plug-in page, it is being downloaded just under 100 times per day right now.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , Wordpress
November 5, 2009 • 2:55 pm
This is a handy mobile interface and works great from your desk too. You simple log into Tweetbe.at (as in TweetBeat) with oAuth and pick a channel or hashtag. When I say pick, I mean type one in to be clear. There is no list of existing channels to be found. I made a quick one for the SocialMediaBusinessForum (#smbf)
You are then presented with a nice sized, timeline list of tweets with that tag and the avatars and names of who sent the tweet. By clicking the small talk bubble you can see the entire thread they find around that tweet, which is handy for seeing it as a chat.
There is also the ability to translate the text in the conversation and have a permalink just to that individual conversation! You can also retweet, favorite or reply. URL shortenting is included as wel as simply grabbing the hashtag in the reply automatically to keep the thread going. Muting is allowed by clicking the skull on a person or choosing it from the main menu.
In the settings area you can create a description for the channel, the style, color and what to include. Such as retweets, replies or even automated postings. The default color seems to look the best from the few I selected. I am unclear if it does autoupdating or if you can control the time at which it refreshes. I saw no settings for that portion.
The interface lends itself great to putting this on a screen for conferences, seminars and the like.
Filed under: Add-on Tools, Mobile Clients, Web Clients , chat, conversations, threads, translate, URL_shorteners
November 3, 2009 • 1:33 pm
Dabr does not have flashy icons or a huge splash page. It is because they are geared for mobile devices and providing the best web experience they can. oAuth is offered, but they openly state it does not always work well on mobile devices so a normal username/password login option is avaialable.
There is multiple color screens as well as selecting the type of client you are accessing the site:
- pc
- touch mobile
- normal mobile
- text only
- work safe
From there you can also go directly to external links of use Google Web Transcoder (GWT) to get small speedy pages. The conversation thread can also be reversed, when it works properly. The list of options of what you can view is pretty extensive once you log in:
- home
- directs
- replies
- lists
- trends
- favorites
- search
- public
- followers
- friends
- twitpic
You get the idea. I was able to see my lists I follow/created as well as ones that follow me. Take that for a mobile client supporting lists. Selecting any user profile gives me a nice mobile version of information about them as well as the normal ability to interact with tweets themselves.
This scores high on the mobile web interface for usability and features.
Filed under: Mobile Clients, Web Clients , mobile, web
October 30, 2009 • 11:56 am
Have you ever wanted to know if people favorite your tweets? What if you could track down every single person that favorites your Twitter messages? Insert Favstar.fm here!
Thats right, we’ve found another solution for your Twitter problems. Favstar.fm is a popular site for Twitter users to search not only for the most favorited Twitter messages of the day, but also track those who’ve put a star next to your tweets. Find repeat “favoritors” to connect with, or add the new stats to your Social ROI metrics. Using Favstar.fm you can see what your followers would really love to talk more about.
Filed under: Search Tools, Web Clients , favorites, favstar.fm
Listorious jumped early on Twitter lists to create a site that aggregates all sorts of categories of Twitter lists and allows you to search for anyone to see how many lists they are on. From marketing, companies, health, celebrity, news and even top social media thought leaders, they are all there. Tags are available and the top lists overall has it’s own special section.
It uses oAuth to log you in (right now works best if you see lists on your Twitter page). Once logged in you can see lists you are on as well as lists you have created on Twitter. Interestingly when I searched my name I only found a couple lists but using this interface I found more than that. I am guessing this does not read or see private lists that anyone has created. Nor did it find the public list I made for TheSocialGeeks.
There had to be somewhere to go and we were way too busy to start an EverythingLists site 
Filed under: Add-on Tools , lists
