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The new Seesmic Desktop

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Nikos in Events, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

Today I attended the launch of the Seesmic Desktop. Seesmic owns the very famous Twitter client Twhirl (1.2 M downloads until today) that is in the top list of  clients with Tweetdeck. Loic Le Meur, the founder of Seesmic presented today, at Seesmic’s offices in San Francisco, the new Seesmic project that will (soon) combine Facebook and Twitter in one client. The event was also live via the Ustream channel of loic with an average of 500 users.

The new Seesmic desktop is a preview and can be downloaded only by the Seesmic team members. You can join the team and download the new Twitter client. There are several new features but the most interesting is the UserLists where you can make lists of your friends and have a separate column for each list. The whole design reminds me iTunes. Simple, with a left sidebar and other ‘Mac design ideas’.

Twhirl has some cons that Seesmic wants to get rid of them.. There is not a twhirl.com domain and its name is quite hard to say it. Seesmic wants also to strength its brand name by creating the Seesmic Facebook application and the new Seesmic Desktop.

So, join the team, test it and give your feedback to Loic and his friends!

Look the pictures of the event…