A while back, I wrote an entry on the evolution of web-based tools to access your stuff without having to install apps on your computer. One of my bugbears on social/professional networking has been the need to install Tweetdeck (www.tweetdeck.com) on every machine and configure it on every one (no central identity management) to access Twitter/FB/LinkedIn.
I’ve been (casually, very casually) using Brizzly (www.brizzly.com) to do a very ‘lite’ integration of FB and Twitter, but it doesn’t cover off LinkedIn and the interface is a bit cumbersome for my liking – I like my key streams in one place and I really like the UI in Tweetdeck.
So I read with interest the Techradar/V3 entry on web-based social networking tools (http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/6-of-the-best-web-based-twitter-clients-671253) and signed up with Hootsuite (http://hootsuite.com) and am pleased to say that after only one day of usage, I’ll be happy to bin Tweetdeck (perhaps only on a trial basis). The UI is simple and clean and with enough controllability that I can set the display up simply and easily without too much configuration.
I’ll report back in a while, but this has to be another application area where the flexibility of access to information from a web-based platform beats the installed app hands down. Now, if only Spotify (www.spotify.com) would release a web-based approach to streaming (a la http://Last.fm).
WYT?
