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twhirl does FriendFeedApril 17

The big news today - for FriendFeed users at least - is that twhirl now supports FriendFeed. I first spotted the news when I turned my monitors on this morning and my eye was caught by a message on Twitter from Corvida from SheGeeks where twhirl had released an update that now had support for FriendFeed.

So once I had managed to get another coffee through the system and got caught up with my reading I grabbed the update and installed it. Now right off the but as Frederic at The Last Podcast pointed out in his review today this is not a unified client. twhirl will launch separate windows for each of the services. If you are already using twhirl you will need to add your Fri

RSSmeme now shows FriendFeed friends postsApril 16

Benjamin Golub of RSSmeme fame just posted a link in FriendFeed that will let you personalize RSSmeme using your FriendFeed friends list. By adding in your FriendFeed username RSSmeme will list all the posts your FF friends have made.

While not earth shattering it is kind of a cool idea bringing personalization to yet another service based by your use of FriendFeed

Conversation Tags: FriendFeed, RSSmeme, personalization

Alert Thingy Updated to 1.2April 16

For all you FriendFeed folks waiting on the seemingly daily improvements to desktop apps for FriendFeed today is update day for Alert Thingy. With this update we now have some themes along with Twitter posting. While the themes do make it a little easier to read it still doesn’t fix the problem of the font size.

That said it is getting closer to being usable to a larger segment of those folks looking for desktop FriendFeed apps.

Conversation Tags: FriendFeed, Alert Thingy

You are kidding aren’t you?April 13

So Alert Thingy has been released to the wild and anxious FriendFeed users who where waiting patiently; or not so patiently, for it to arrive can now play with it to their hearts content. While Frederic of The Last Podcast and Sarah from Sarah in Tampa are lukewarm to say the least in their assessment of the app TechCrunch in their usual lame review don’t say much at all.

Well I do and it is simply this - you have to be kidding me. But rather than getting overly verbose how about a screenshot of what it looks like on my desktop

Now I might be a cranky old fart whose eyes aren’t the best in the world but how do you possible expect me to use this for any length of time without straining my eyes any further than I am.

The fact that I have no control over either the text size or the opacity of the background make this attempt next to useless. It doesn’t matter that you guys are stil

I want the drugs these guys were onApril 11

So we have the first of what will probably be many desktop clients for FriendFeed now that they have released their API for developers to muck about in. While Alert Thingy is still in development Sobees has released their desktop client called bTittleTattle and to but it simply it reminds me of some of my acid flashbacks of doing California Sunshine while sitting on the hill overlooking the river.

The client is written using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the .NET 3.5 Framework and it lives up to the greatest fear that I had as a developer before hanging up my dev tools. Before I quit any dev work I was getting heavily into working with WPF and felt a great enthusiasm for what I believed that WPF could bring to the table for creating excellent interactive user interfaces. At the same time I was also greatly worried that developers would cross over that line of usability and be replaced with gaudy over animated interfaces that made the application behave and look more like