Great Social Media Applications

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Myspace, Google Wave, Flickr… they’re all social media networks. They all are for the connection of people and the sharing of information from one person to the next. And luckily for us, people keep making programs to allow us to share the information brilliantly, without needing to go to the web page of the social network which is often too cluttered. Even better, some applications allow us to cover multiple networks in one program. In this issue, we’ll be looking at the various examples of great social media programs and what to do with them. But let’s start with the best, this time.

Socialite

If there had to be a single application for keeping up to date with everything, I’d pick Socialite. I love it, even if it is only in beta. Socialite covers virtually everything you can imagine – Facebook, Twitter, Digg, RSS, Flickr and Google Reader. They plan to add even more, soon, but for the moment they cover enough. Socialite is currently a beta-stage program, but they plan a proper release at the end of November. Socialite is everything I want to see in a program of this type, and I hope to see more from it – especially integration with loads of other services (Live, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, anyone?)

Socialite is currently in beta. If you wish to download the proper version, keep checking their full release page. Else, if you really wanna download the pre-release software, read this forum page. The link to the Beta (Socialite 1.0 Beta 3) will be included in the text.

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5+
Price: Free
URL: http://realmacsoftware.com/socialite/

Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is another force to be reckoned with, as similarly to Socialite, it supports a variety of platforms for its service – Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Tweetdeck is already regarded as one of the most useful Twitter platforms, and while being a tad useless for Facebook and Myspace, it’s still a great platform for multicapable social media sharing. allowing users to not only share from one account but to select all the accounts they wish to share a single message with, it’s a powerful tool for telling many people something from many accounts.

Tweetdeck works on Mac, Windows and Linux through the use of Adobe AIR.

Operating System: Windows XP+, Mac OS X 10.3+, Linux Ubuntu
Price: Free
URL: http://tweetdeck.com

Seesmic Desktop

We seem to be dropping a feature each time, but Seesmic is still a great tool, and recently releasing a special version of its software for Windows. Similarly to Tweetdeck, it operates on all 3 major OS, through Adobe AIR.

Seesmic recently supported their new ideas by releasing a Windows program that makes full use of the Windows 7 interface. They also created a version that works well on Android smartphones.

The main thing for Seesmic is brand tracking, which it is great for.

Operating System: Windows XP+, Mac OS X 10.3+, Linux Ubuntu
Price: Free
URL: http://seesmic.com