Filed under: Internet, Linux, Social Software
Twitter is all right if you like visiting a web page and hitting refresh a few thousand times a day to see what all of your friends have been up to. But where the mini-blogging platform really becomes exciting when you use a desktop or cellphone client to keep tracks of tweets as they come in. There are plenty of clients for Windows and Mac, but what’s a Linux lover to do?
Install gTwitter, that’s what. gTwitter might lack some of the advanced features that you find in Twitter clients like Snitter and Twitterific. But eventually Adobe will release a version of Adobe AIR that runs on Linux and you’ll be able to run Snitter to your heart’s content. until then, gTwitter gives you all the basics like the capability to send and receive tweets. You can also select whether to view complete tweets in your window or just a timeline showing you who sent the latest tweets and what time they came in.
If you’re running Ubuntu 7.10, all you have to do to install gTwitter is search the Synaptic Package Manager. For some reason gTwitter wasn’t automatically added to our start menu, but you can fix that by selecting System/Preferences/Main Menu and adding a shortcut to gTwitter (the application can be found in your usrbin folder.
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Flickr has been around for a while (especially by web 2.0 standards) and has it’s many fans. Rightfully so. We love Flickr too. But don’t you feel Flickr needs some thing ‘new’. You know, something to spice it up a little?
Enter Photophlow. This site brings a much needed social aspect to your Flickr photoset - conversation. Consider it, when you get back from a trip, isn’t it fun to have your closest friends and family gather around while you show them your photos and re-live your experiences on your vacation? Photophlow acts as a chat room centered around photos on Flickr.
The site has a warm fuzzy feeling to it. The other Flickr users in the chat rooms are talkative and inviting. When you log into Photophlow, it almost feels like stepping into your favorite coffee shop on a winter day.
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Twitter is all right if you like visiting a web page and hitting refresh a few thousand times a day to see what all of your friends have been up to. But where the mini-blogging platform really becomes exciting when you use a desktop or cellphone client to keep tracks of tweets as they come in. There are plenty of clients for Windows and Mac, but what’s a Linux lover to do?
Install gTwitter, that’s what. gTwitter may lack some of the advanced features that you find in Twitter clients like Snitter and Twitterific. But eventually Adobe will release a version of Adobe AIR that runs on Linux and you’ll be able to run Snitter to your heart’s content. until then, gTwitter gives you all the basics like the ability to send and receive tweets. You can also select whether to view complete tweets in your window or just a timeline showing you who sent the latest tweets and what time they came in.
If you’re running Ubuntu 7.10, all you’ve to do to install gTwitter is search the Synaptic Package Manager. For some reason gTwitter wasn’t automatically added to our start menu, but you can fix that by selecting System/Preferences/Main Menu and adding a shortcut to gTwitter (the application can be found in your usrbin folder.
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Flickr has been around for a while (especially by web 2.0 standards) and has it’s many fans. Rightfully so. We love Flickr too. But don’t you feel Flickr needs some thing ‘new’. You know, something to spice it up a tiny?
Enter Photophlow. This site brings a much needed social aspect to your Flickr photoset - conversation. Think about it, when you get back from a trip, isn’t it fun to have your closest friends and family gather around while you show them your photos and re-live your experiences on your vacation? Photophlow acts as a chat room centered around photos on Flickr.
The site has a warm fuzzy feeling to it. The other Flickr users in the chat rooms are talkative and inviting. When you log into Photophlow, it almost feels like stepping into your favorite coffee shop on a winter day.
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Ever wish you didn’t have to visit 20 different web sites to keep up with your friends on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter? 8hands has you covered.
8hands is a desktop client that displays all the latest updates from all of those sites as well as media updates from your YouTube and Flickr contacts. All you have to do is download and install 8hands and you’ll nearly never need to visit a web page to keep up with all of the latest news from your friends. If you want to hit up one of those web sites though, all you have to do is click the icon for the service you want to visit and 8hands will pull up a web browser.
8hands is also a fairly competent replacement for desktop Twitter clients like Snitter and Twitterific. The client displays all the latest tweets from your friends in an optional pop up window. And you can send out tweets by changing your status line, even though there’s no easy way to reply to a tweet by clicking on it and there’s no tinyurl integration.
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