Seesmic Review

With the latest review of Seesmic listed on Google written almost a year (April 9, 2009) ago now, I thought I would write up a quick review of my recent experience. This is in no way a finished review, just my initial response after loading the apps and running through the tutorials. If you feel I have missed something, make a comment and correct me please. This is intended to help people not confuse them.

Seesmic Experiment

I downloaded Seesmic desktop and Look to give them a quick two day run through. My Twitter and Facebook needs don't really require a single app that does everything. That said, many of my friends and colleagues are new to the apps and looking for a better way to manage it all in one place.

Seesmic Look

The first Seesmic app I played with was the Look app. I must say it is pretty. I like the big letters and the smooth flow of how my local Twitter stream flows into the page. It's almost like reading a waterfall. I think my favorite feature in Look is the playback mode which looks a lot like rain drops of information landing on your screen. Very cool looking.

It has all of the actions you would expect a twitter account to have such as re-tweet, direct message, etc.

The downside of look is that the setting options are limited and the Advanced settings options left me saying "WTF?" when it was all said and done. I also couldn't find a follow/unfollow option anywhere in the app. Even when I went to the support page, the only place I found follow and unfollow command help was on the Desktop version.

Overall, a great application for seeing what is going on out there and just a fun way to view your twitter feed. If you are a basic user who doesn't mind logging in to another app to follow people and just want a fun way to view Twitter feeds, this app might be for you.

Seesmic Web

Seesmic Web is pretty cool. It allows you to follow your twitter account anywhere you have an internet connection. It is basically a clone of Seesmics desktop that only allows you to log in with one Twitter client.

It has all of the features you would expect for a Twitter app including the ability to Follow, Direct Message, lists, favorites, etc.

The only settings are to set the color of the page and how the windows are displayed on the page.

If you're on the go and you have a PC/Mac with internet that is maybe a work computer so you can't download stuff to it, this is a pretty good app for keeping up with your Tweeter accounts even if you have to log into them individually.

Seesmic Desktop

This app is everything I could want and more in a Twitter app that also lets me post to Facebook. I really like that it doesn't just re-tweet my tweets into FB. I can tell it to post to FB as well as to twitter by adding the #fb to the end of the stuff that I type. Instant segregation of what tweets go where.

The really nice thing about the desktop version is that it allows me to see all of my twitter and facebook accounts in one place. I can have it all show up in the one window or break it out into multiple windows as I see fit.

Overall it's a very easy to use app that allows you the flexibility of not having to have Facebook, Twitter, and Seesmic open so that you can manage all of your accounts. That's a huge plus for me since it means I can close a ton of browser windows that I would normally have to keep open just so I can stay up to date with what is going on.

Bottom Line
The bottom line, I think Seesmic Desktop is my new app when it comes to social media and me. It does everything I could ever need and allows me to manage all of my accounts without having to log out and back in again multiple times throughout the day.

Since my mother wants to get into social media a little more, I will set her up with Seesmic Look and let her have fun with that, since that is more what she is looking for in her experience.

Overall, some pretty good improvements and new apps from what I was reading about back around April 2009. Seesmic is a decent platform that supports a user who is multi-tasking their social media experience and needs to see it all in one place.