Tweetie – Twitter in style ?
Tweetie is a new twitter client for Mac OS X & the iPhone, provided by the folks over at atebits.com. There is both a free (ad-supported) version of the client, and a premium one, which weighs in at $19.95 . That is quite a lot just to get rid of some very discrete ads, so I personally didn’t bother.
Upon first installing the program I’ll admit that I was very impressed with the look, feel and simplicity of the thing. Most mac users will agree that installed 3rd party software can often feel clunky, out of place, and unfinished when placed alongside the clean, brushed metal approach of OS X. This is emphatically not the case with Tweetie.
Perhaps it is because it is specifically designed for Mac that its user interface is well … more Apple than Apple! Whatever the reason though, my proverbial hat comes off too the designers behind tweetie – its stunning. What is more they have been able to capture some of that mac simplicity.
I hate to quote (often dubious) testimonials, but Wired magazine didn’t get it far wrong when they said “Tweetie’s interface is so clean you would think it came straight out of Apple headquarters.”
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Yahoo! brass scoffs at Bing – “Won’t save Microsoft search”
Yesterday thebusinessinsider.com reported that the CEO of Yahoo Carol Bartz gave bing the rough side of her tongue, claiming it wouldn’t create that long 
term shift in the search market share that microsoft so desperately want.
Prediciting the new search engines inevitable (as she see’s it) fade into obscurity, following on from the initial period of interest that Bing will currently be enjoying, Bartz said “It’s interesting but not over-the-top interesting, People will keep the same habits.”
So Bing has failed to impress everyone then, but on the other hand – what else could one expect the CEO of Yahoo! to say about microsofts new baby ? She was hardly likely to shower it in praise if you ask me, what with the whole Yahoo!/Microsoft deal debacle still ongoing, and the fact that they are direct competitors, fighting over market share.
The comments are to be taken with a pinch of salt then, but perhaps there is something to take away from this. Bing is Live with a lick of paint, a very good lick of paint to be fair … but underneath its still the same old search we know and use every day. The search that google still does perfectly well .
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