Filed under: World wide web, Windows Mobile, Freeware, Social Software, Mobile Minute, Beta

Twitter has a mobile interface which you can access from any web-enabled cellphone or PDA by visiting m.twitter.com. But the mobile interface is a bit sparse and doesn’t let you, for example, look just at replies, direct message, or the public timeline.

Twobile is a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices that adds many of the features you’d get from a desktop Twitter client like Twhirl or Twitterific. The application is available as a public beta, and is freeware, even though the developer asks anyone who plans to use Twobile for business use to pay a license fee.

The client grants you to update your status, view the public timeline, your friends timeline, send and receive replies and direct messages, view featured users and favorites. And you can view avatars when you click on an individual message.

[via MobileTopSoft]

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Filed under: World wide web, Windows, Linux, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0

We really like snarky comments. Or maybe we just really like the sound of our own voices, if by saying sound we mean “incessant tapping” and by voices we mean “keyboards.” So needless to say, when we heard about iComment, we were intrigued.

iComment is a plug-in for either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox-based browsers. The install instructions have a definite Windows slant, but we have the ability to verify it seems to work quite dandily in Linux. The idea behind iComment is easy. It grants you to leave your two cents on any website, or photo, or bit of text that appears on a page. You want the rest of the world to know how freakin’ annoying a gratuitous bit of Flash on a page is? Tell ‘em!

Of course, there are some issues that limit the usefulness of this plug-in at the moment. The first and foremost is the one that really can’t be helped — every plug-in starts somewhere. Through iComment, we are able to see the comments other people have left on a site, as well as our own. Very cool, but it’s a bit of a hunt to find sites with comments, as this is a relatively new service. It is sort of interesting to hear, though, that the development team is working on a “friend/private” function where you can share comments with approved friends.

Continue reading iComment, because we can’t shut up about anything

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