Enrique Gutierrez

Ok… we, meaning me in this case, have a problem. I’m not really into jumping on the buzz and getting a scoop on a “story”, for me? That’s short-lived love for writing, yuck, but what’s going on today with the battle of the AIR apps is a little… well, crap.

I commented yesterday that via an imaginary friend on FriendFeed I was following my “with others” feed on Twitter within AlertThingy. I ended up deciding I didn’t really much like that, so I killed my imaginary friend “Others”… he died quickly and painlessly. Now I’m here with version 1.2 of AlertThingy that allows me to Tweet from it… Ok, this is handy, cause I can just use Twitter as I always have: receive notifications I track on my phone, tweet when I find something useful or random to share, and reply to others when I’m replied to - this method keeps Twitter from being constantly paid attention to, and keeps my day going smooth as butter.

Twhirl… “We’re now compatible with FriendFeed” in version 0.7.9 - I think… Awesome. Now when I want to crack out on Twitter I can close AlertThingy, crack open Twhirl, and have both in one window just going awesome! o_O Not the case? Two windows… I hate making assumptions about things before using them.

Anyway, I can see the awesome in having two windows (one for Twitter, one for FriendFeed) in Twhirl, as an option maybe… but otherwise, it’s the same as having AlertThingy open… Now I have to have them all open to examine which one I think is going to be more intuitive for me to simply “use” without thinking about it, a funny paradox in and of itself. Sucks.

Both apps have good points and bad. Twhirl wasn’t made for FriendFeed, and it sort of shows: requiring users to select search to search, the lookup feature is … well, unnecessary, really, and I can’t Tweet from this window, so I need to open the other if I want to share something, which would release the Twitter bug while I’m trying a minor distraction for myself for a few seconds via a Twitter post. (That sells me on AlertThingy)

AlertThingy on the other hand only shows me tweets from people on my FriendFeed, rightfully so. Yes, I could resurrect “Others” from the dead, but then I’m just reading tweets all day in AlertThingy… bastards! So here’s what I get to do now, I guess, keep’m both - f**k it.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am and is filed under Meta.